# I've been starting to worry that the the PiperCub is colour-blind... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 13, 2011, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-starting-to-worry-that-the-the-pipercub-is-colour-blind/578211 "2011-04-13T11:31:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-starting-to-worry-that-the-the-pipercub-is-colour-blind/578211/21 "2011-08-22T16:48:17Z")
I’m sure that will help the offence any day now. “Green smilies on the internets! Hmmm…maybe we should try catching that ball once in a while!” Meanwhile, in Darian Durant’s mind…“Do I thow _to_ or _away from_ the guys wearing the same shirt as me?” 😛 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-starting-to-worry-that-the-the-pipercub-is-colour-blind/578211/22 "2011-08-22T17:19:32Z")
:: long pause :: So, how about those Blue Jays? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-starting-to-worry-that-the-the-pipercub-is-colour-blind/578211/23 "2011-08-22T17:32:59Z")
Piper Cub doesn’t follow baseball. ---
**Author:** ![the\_Lady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@the\_Lady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_Lady)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-starting-to-worry-that-the-the-pipercub-is-colour-blind/578211/24 "2011-08-22T17:38:24Z")
I don’t follow football much, but I have trained both children to greet their aunt with “Go Flames Go!” She loves this. The uncle who is a Canuck fan? He is less impressed. ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-starting-to-worry-that-the-the-pipercub-is-colour-blind/578211/25 "2011-08-22T17:55:02Z")
Currently the adult version of this phenomenon is FuckYouRidersARGH Green. I don’t think Ken Miller will be allowed to retire until we win the Grey Cup again. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-starting-to-worry-that-the-the-pipercub-is-colour-blind/578211/26 "2011-08-23T02:47:06Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Response from the back seat: “Because the Good Robots are GoRiders and the Bad Robots are Stop Stamps!” I really have created a monster. Does he say “Stop the Stamps” at Riders-Stamps games in Regina? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-starting-to-worry-that-the-the-pipercub-is-colour-blind/578211/27 "2011-08-23T03:26:17Z")
Yes. he also says: “Hen-rrryyyy” and goes around telling people “Henry throws wild.” ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-starting-to-worry-that-the-the-pipercub-is-colour-blind/578211/28 "2011-08-23T04:35:21Z")
You know that the next time I drive through Regina, all I’m going to think of while waiting at red lights, is the Piper Cub’s litany? And if I get a green, you know what I’ll be thinking. Thank you, Piper Cub. Thank you so much. With luck, I’ll get a lot of yellow lights. Go, Ti-Cats! ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-starting-to-worry-that-the-the-pipercub-is-colour-blind/578211/29 "2011-08-23T05:37:23Z")
He’s a Piper Cub and need only recognize yellow. 😉 I was reading a book about camouflage in WWII and the guys who could see their way through it were colorblind. Stuck out like a sore thumb. In general, it’s not much of a disability. Unless you are a girl, which makes it all your fault. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-starting-to-worry-that-the-the-pipercub-is-colour-blind/578211/30 "2011-08-23T05:43:11Z")
ETA: Wife tested ROTC guys. If they were not pilots she, er, encouraged answers. No point in them losing a scholarship if it didn’t really hurt in the Real World. ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-starting-to-worry-that-the-the-pipercub-is-colour-blind/578211/31 "2011-08-23T18:09:34Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > He’s a Piper Cub and need only recognize yellow. 😉 > > I was reading a book about camouflage in WWII and the guys who could see their way through it were colorblind. Stuck out like a sore thumb. In general, it’s not much of a disability. Unless you are a girl, which makes it all your fault. 😃 My grandfather got transferred from the infantry to the Royal Flying Corps in WW1 on the basis of being red-green colourblind. They wanted him as an observer to be able to better recognize camouflaged German gun positions and such. It may have saved his life - I have his military papers and he was seconded to the RFC in February 1918, and received movement orders from Britain to an operational unit in France on November 9, 1918, so was out of the trenches for much of the fighting in the last year of the war and got back to the war zone just in time for the Armistice. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-starting-to-worry-that-the-the-pipercub-is-colour-blind/578211.md?page=1)