Macaroni and Cheese:
Manatee:
Fuzzy Wuzzy Brown
And, last but not least, Beaver...
Posted on 04/10/2008 4:37:56 PM PDT by ShadowDancer
No just by someone who doesn't like the word "Christmas" to remind everyone what the holiday season revolves around.
Many years ago...
**Name voluntarily changed to "peach" in 1962, partially as a result of the U. S. Civil Rights Movement.
Our posts were made at almost the same time, but are pretty much polar opposites.
(I forgot about the copper crayons.)
The families of the kids I went to grade school with could not afford them.
I never liked crayons at all. I always preferred coloring pencils.
They should have just went to Cagey’s house and scraped the residue off his radiators.
My favourite colour was always Indian Red. I bet that one’s long gone.
I loathed Cornflower Blue. It always coloured like a crappy store-brand crayon, rather than the rich colours Crayola usually had.
My favourite Sesame Street segment was always the Crayola Factory one. I loved seeing the crayons stacked in the giant sorters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMU-wXsgyR8
I love them but I do like colored pencils, too. It depends on what you’re coloring.
Nowadays “Flesh” would get you a whole other box of crayons.
I remember seeing Crayola Crayons in the stores a few years ago with the word "Multicultural" prominently displayed on the side of the box, with each letter a different color. Isn't that special?
Try these sometime, they’re fantastic:
http://www.dickblick.com/zz220/27/
I picked them up at Michael’s with a coupon. They’re brittle so don’t drop them, but the pigment is wonderful. Found a cool Dover colouring book, and went to nostalgia heaven colouring at the coffee shop while my husband babysat. A pleasant way to spend an hour....
The always politically incorrect Indian Red.
Also I remember periwinkle, cornflower blue, lemon yellow (used that one all the time -heard they got rid of it) and wasn’t there a goldenrod?
There was also olive green, which I hated. Raw sienna, burnt umber. Sky blue.
Not that kids give a damn about what they are called.
Just goes to show how teachers and parents ruin the innocence of childhood. If they just left them alone they'd be fine.
By the way, does anyone else remember Venus Paradise coloring pencils? At some point they changed the brand, and the pencils never colored brightly after that. The lead was too hard.
Wow, that list brings back memories. I didn’t remember that the flesh-colored one was in fact called Flesh. I can picture all those colors except Bittersweet.
I never had a 64 box. I had a 48 box. I don’t think they make the 48 box anymore.
Macaroni and Cheese:
Manatee:
Fuzzy Wuzzy Brown
And, last but not least, Beaver...
Considering that Binney and Smith are a wholly owned subsidiary of Hallmark I kind of doubt it.
Nope. Don’t remember those. I remember faber-castell, koh-i-nor, and prang.
You know this how?
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