# Pointless, but intriguing **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 18, 2007, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-but-intriguing/396385 "2007-03-18T00:20:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-but-intriguing/396385/41 "2007-03-18T06:37:41Z")
Green hammer ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-but-intriguing/396385/42 "2007-03-18T06:50:04Z")
purple garden claw ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-but-intriguing/396385/43 "2007-03-18T06:50:39Z")
I did yellow axe. Funnily, the axe sitting in my backyard (which brought it to mind) is red. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Rich\_Mann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@Rich\_Mann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rich_Mann)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-but-intriguing/396385/44 "2007-03-18T08:35:23Z")
[QUOTE=levdrakon] Green hammer. There was another test like this and most people would say “carrot.” Anyone remember what that test was? [/QUOTE] You ask them to answer what is: 1+5 2+4 3+3 4+2 5+1 Then ask them to say “six” aloud as many times as they can in 15 seconds. Then ask them to name a vegetable. ---
**Author:** ![conurepete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@conurepete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/conurepete)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-but-intriguing/396385/45 "2007-03-18T11:47:03Z")
Blue um (visualize wrought iron claw thing… no name. visualize a compass with goiniometer adhered to it…nameless and does not exist… er whats that on the non-pointy end? Aha-pencil. blue pencil ---
**Author:** ![buns3000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@buns3000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buns3000)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-but-intriguing/396385/46 "2007-03-18T11:49:07Z")
Another red hammer here. ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-but-intriguing/396385/47 "2007-03-18T12:07:16Z")
Red screwdriver… ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-but-intriguing/396385/48 "2007-03-18T12:22:35Z")
[QUOTE=pool] Green Wrench [/QUOTE] Hey, me too! ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-but-intriguing/396385/49 "2007-03-18T12:40:48Z")
I said red hammer, like any sane person would. ---
**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-but-intriguing/396385/50 "2007-03-18T12:47:41Z")
I have no idea why, but I thought of brown, and those things which you use to slice hard boiled eggs into thin pieces, ---
**Author:** ![sinjin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sinjin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinjin)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-but-intriguing/396385/51 "2007-03-18T16:12:56Z")
red electric drill. With Pi day so recently past, I had an immediate visualization of… Ok, I’ll go off to the corner with the abnormalites now. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-but-intriguing/396385/52 "2007-03-18T18:36:59Z")
[QUOTE=ExtraKun] I have no idea why, but I thought of brown, and those things which you use to slice hard boiled eggs into thin pieces, [/QUOTE] Clearly, you need to be institutionalized. ---
**Author:** ![stretch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@stretch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stretch)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-but-intriguing/396385/53 "2007-03-18T18:46:01Z")
Blue hammer. Hammer, tool of all uses. Common phrase throughout my life, “If that doesn’t work, get a bigger hammer.” Blue? I have a red hammer, a yellow hammer, a grey hammer, two wood-handle hammers–no blue ones. Can’t imagine why I picked that color. ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-but-intriguing/396385/54 "2007-03-18T18:59:34Z")
Um, I thought of a red awl. Don’t know why, just did. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-but-intriguing/396385/55 "2007-03-18T19:41:56Z")
I’d freak out and possibly have myself institutionalized if I’d said “red awl,” because I have no idea what an awl is. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-but-intriguing/396385/56 "2007-03-18T19:59:33Z")
Orange hammer. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Mood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@Blue\_Mood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Mood)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-but-intriguing/396385/57 "2007-03-18T20:00:43Z")
I thought of “blue” for the colour and “saw” for the tool - I read it as being two separate things. ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-but-intriguing/396385/58 "2007-03-18T20:02:34Z")
blue hammer. Hi, near namesake.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-but-intriguing/396385/59 "2007-03-18T20:09:12Z")
Green shovel. I just got back in from propping up my mailbox. Using a shovel. Which was green. ---
**Author:** ![you\_with\_the\_face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecccb3/32.png) [@you\_with\_the\_face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_with_the_face)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-but-intriguing/396385/60 "2007-03-18T20:20:07Z")
Blue hoe, for me. I thought of the tool first, then the color. Am I the only one? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-but-intriguing/396385.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-but-intriguing/396385.md?page=4)