Strange Conversations: Part Fifty-Nine
Posted 3 November 2008 in Strange Conversations by Catriona
Yet another Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law-inspired conversation:
ME: And what’s Avenger going to do now? Who needs a giant purple eagle who can type and do the filing?
NICK: Well, I do.
ME: Yes, but we don’t exist in the same dimensions. We’d have a two-dimensional giant purple eagle, and what use would we have for that?
NICK: True. (Pause) I’d say Avenger was blue.
ME: He’s purple.
NICK: Well, jacaranda blue.
ME: Jacarandas are purple.
NICK: The way I see it, it’s a continuum (with hand gestures). There’s blue down here and purple down the other end, and jacarandas are closer to the blue end.
ME: They’re purple.
NICK: Can you actually offer any evidence, rather than just saying it?
ME: Everyone knows jacarandas are purple.
NICK: Well, that’s not exactly evidence now, is is, Treena?
ME: Would you like me to look it up on Wikipedia?
(For the record, Wikipedia says that each flower has “a five-lobed blue to purple-blue corolla.” But, honestly: they’re purple!)
Share your thoughts [4]
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Wendy wrote at Nov 3, 11:26 am
I’m with you….there’s no way jacarandas are blue….
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Catriona wrote at Nov 3, 11:30 am
Nick’s convinced that I can’t tell the difference between blue, purple, and green.
But jacarandas are absolutely purple.
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Matthew Smith wrote at Nov 4, 01:26 am
I think jacaranda is a colour to itself. Like peach.
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Catriona wrote at Nov 4, 01:51 am
You can’t equivocate on this issue, Matt—it’s divisive!
Peach is a variant of pink (albeit an orangey pink), so how would you describe jacaranda to someone who’d never seen one?
(Assuming you don’t have access to the Internet or a handy tree-spotting book.)