# RickJay Paints a Picture

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rickjay-paints-a-picture/283162>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [January 5, 2005, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rickjay-paints-a-picture/283162 "2005-01-05T06:12:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Salem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Salem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salem)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rickjay-paints-a-picture/283162/21 "2005-01-07T04:59:37Z")

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> [@lieu](#):
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> I’ve been waiting fourty years to hear someone say “fuck paint”.

Psssst, lieu. I don’t think he meant it as a mandate.  
Great OP, **Rickjay**. Glad your wife liked it. At least you didn’t have to wait 'til you were dead to feel appreciated.

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**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rickjay-paints-a-picture/283162/22 "2005-01-07T13:39:28Z")

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That goes down as one of the classic rants. Brilliant.

> [@RickJay](#):
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> But Mrs. RickJay liked the painting.

SCORE! It WAS worth it. Well done.

I have pondered long and hard about mixing paint, based on little evidence. I think a big problem is that if you’ve got some dark colour in there you need to dilute it a hellish amount to lighten the colour, and can only go so far, so whenever you mix it tends toward ‘dark’ (in theory, black. typically, dark brown), which means once you’ve got dogshit, you can’t turn it into anything else. Less is more. Just a guess, but it’d explain a lot…

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**Author:** ![Cosmopolitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@Cosmopolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmopolitan)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rickjay-paints-a-picture/283162/23 "2005-01-07T18:12:53Z")

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Oh man, was that funny! My sister, who’s an artist, was laughing in agreement - “I wanted a LIGHT PINK, not a fucking bloody red, goddammit!”. Even though your wife is the visual artist in the family, you have quite a talent in the short story department.

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**Author:** ![HeatherFraoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/9d8465/32.png) [@HeatherFraoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeatherFraoch)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2005, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rickjay-paints-a-picture/283162/24 "2005-01-08T23:28:14Z")

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Ha ha ha I nearly laughed my ass off at this RickJay. I would also like to mention that the painting doesn’t look half as terrifying as I had expected!

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**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2005, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rickjay-paints-a-picture/283162/25 "2005-01-09T00:50:47Z")

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Oh dear Jesus. Heather’s on the SDMB. What have I wrought?

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