# "WHAT... is your favorite color?" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 13, 1999, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-color/11073 "1999-11-13T05:02:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cool\_Hand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2acd7d/32.png) [@Cool\_Hand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cool_Hand)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 1999, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-color/11073/1 "1999-11-13T05:02:00Z")
Blue… no YYYEEEELLLLLLOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWW! ---
**Author:** ![Byzantine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@Byzantine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Byzantine)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 1999, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-color/11073/2 "1999-11-13T05:04:00Z")
Oh, God, don’t let this turn into a Python thread! ## I love hunter green. Most of the stuff in my house is this color. It’s like a jungle in here! Well, that might have to do with all the plants… Best! Byz ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 1999, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-color/11073/3 "1999-11-13T05:04:00Z")
Plaid. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 1999, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-color/11073/4 "1999-11-13T05:46:00Z")
Blue is the best color! I hate houses painted pink. Green is only good for plants not rooms. I had to live in a house with a dark purple living room, I hate that too. ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 1999, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-color/11073/5 "1999-11-13T06:04:00Z")
Paisley. ---
**Author:** ![EnigmaOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@EnigmaOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnigmaOne)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 1999, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-color/11073/6 "1999-11-13T06:09:00Z")
{{{Oh, God, don’t let this turn into a Python thread!}}}—Byz I hadn’t considered that line about the Sparrow until Byz brought it up. ## Favorite color? Black in subtractive media, and blue in additive media. – **Kalél** _Common ¢ for all ages…_ “Well, there was that thing with the Cheese-Wiz…but I’m feeling much better now!” – John Astin, Night Court ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 1999, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-color/11073/7 "1999-11-13T09:06:00Z")
They say Black is not a color, but I don’t care. BLACK! * * * Yer pal, Satan ---
**Author:** ![Valerieblaise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@Valerieblaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valerieblaise)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 1999, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-color/11073/8 "1999-11-13T13:31:00Z")
Orange ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 1999, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-color/11073/9 "1999-11-13T13:39:00Z")
Yellow, since you asked. This is a new thing for me- it used to be black… When I was in Kindergarten, I had a teacher tell me my favorite color could not be black, as it is not a color (nutjob). I insisted that it was and absolutely would not change my mind- wore out my black crayons, in fact. She got so mad after a few months that she sent me to the school shrink for a check-up from the neck up to find the source of my “obsession with black”. I guess they never did figure it out, because up until this year it was still my fav. * * * [Click here for some GOOD news for a change](http://www.binghamtonpress.com/binghamtonnews/local/Sanews5.html) [Zettecity](http://www.angelfire.com/ny3/zettecity/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 1999, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-color/11073/10 "1999-11-13T13:42:00Z")
Blue. Green. Blue-green. * * * You say “cheesy” like that’s a **BAD** thing. ---
**Author:** ![robertfhm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b5a626/32.png) [@robertfhm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robertfhm)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 1999, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-color/11073/11 "1999-11-13T14:28:00Z")
Anyone notice that women have all these stupid non colors. Coral, sea foam green, copper. Men have only three colors, Battleship gray, camouflage, and any color that comes out of a can of Rustoleum ---
**Author:** ![SirJoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f4b2a3/32.png) [@SirJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirJoe)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 1999, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-color/11073/12 "1999-11-13T14:34:00Z")
Blue, dark blue, almost black…but still blue. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 1999, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-color/11073/13 "1999-11-13T16:34:00Z")
Clear. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 1999, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-color/11073/14 "1999-11-13T17:30:00Z")
Titty Pink. 'nuff said. * * * TT “Believe those who seek the truth. Doubt those who find it.” --Andre Gide ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 1999, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-color/11073/15 "1999-11-14T06:16:00Z")
celery green.But I prefer black clothes. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 1999, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-color/11073/16 "1999-11-13T19:28:00Z")
Black and purple. > [@](#): > > Click here for some GOOD news for a change Ya know, when the papers are full of good news, the jails are full of good people. ---
**Author:** ![Byzantine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@Byzantine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Byzantine)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 1999, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-color/11073/17 "1999-11-13T21:42:00Z")
robertfhm– Anyone notice that women have all these stupid non colors. Yeah, hunter green is a stupid non color. Those women! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tatertot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@tatertot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tatertot)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 1999, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-color/11073/18 "1999-11-13T21:57:00Z")
Wow…this is a really hard question. Seriously, do I have to pick just one? I have lots of favorite colors, for different things. On Me, I like to wear either black or charcoal grey. Sometimes a deep burgundy or green, if I’m feeling festive. For my house, I’d go with grey, darker grey for the furnishings and a nice dove grey for the walls, with white moldings. Now for cars, it all depends on the make & model and possibly the year. Although I can safely say that white is my least favorite car color. I could go on and on, but I’ll be nice and won’t. And robertfhm, I can’t speak for all women, but I need all of these descriptive color terms. There is a HUGE difference between kelly, lime, and hunter green! Not to mention celery, sea-foam, grass, puke, emerald… ---
**Author:** ![robertfhm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b5a626/32.png) [@robertfhm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robertfhm)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 1999, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-color/11073/19 "1999-11-13T22:20:00Z")
Hold on now Tater. When did Puke become a color? Damn I’ve got to start going to the meetings. I guess it all goes back to when I was a kid, I had the small box of Crayolas ::he wipes tear from eye:: ---
**Author:** ![tatertot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@tatertot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tatertot)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 1999, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-color/11073/20 "1999-11-13T22:24:00Z")
There, there Robert, it’s going to be okay. Despite your disadvantaged background, we’ll have you telling the difference between taupe, mauve and puce in no time. We’ll start with the earth-tones and work our way up from there. And Puke Green is too a real color, just like Dookey Brown! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-color/11073.md?page=2)