Bowls
Veronique
a selection of four different colors: cornflower blue, lime green,
bright orange, or purple. I picked out three of them. If you had the
choice, which colors would you choose?
V.
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I'm not currently in the market for bowls. If someone broke all of my
bowls and I had to replace them, I guess I'd go for one of each except for
orange.
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Veronique <veroniq...@gmail.com> wrote:
Am I from New Orleans?
It's hard to say without seeing the colors as hue (right word?) makes a
difference.
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Veronique
> Veronique <veroniqueuni...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I walked into a shop today, and there were displayed lovely bowls, in
> > a selection of four different colors: cornflower blue, lime green,
> > bright orange, or purple. I picked out three of them. If you had the
> > choice, which colors would you choose?
>
> I'm not currently in the market for bowls. If someone broke all of my
> bowls and I had to replace them, I guess I'd go for one of each except for
> orange.
I had a long and slightly horrifying day in a business class, with an
instructor who was so taken with himself he did two hours worth of
introduction, spent the next three hours on really, really simple
basic concepts that everyone knew, and punted the last bit, when we
finally got to more complicated concepts, by saying, "Oh, it's all in
the book, just read that, you'll be fine." So even though I don't
technically need bowls, I needed a treat.
V., green, orange, and purple
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Lars Eighner
the lovely and talented Veronique broadcast on alt.fan.cecil-adams:
Black is my first choice for everything, but I would go with purple here
as amethyst is my second choice for everything.
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Greg Johnson
2 blue, 1 purple. The green and orange wouldn't go with the decor here
at all.
Jeannie
What were they for, decoration or eating? For decoration, I'd pick
blue, purple, orange, and green in that order, and for eating I'd
switch the purple and orange. Eating off lime green dishes would just
revolt me.
Jeannie
Veronique
> In article <1189306228.814879.38...@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
>
> Veronique <veroniqueuni...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >I walked into a shop today, and there were displayed lovely bowls, in
> >a selection of four different colors: cornflower blue, lime green,
> >bright orange, or purple. I picked out three of them. If you had the
> >choice, which colors would you choose?
>
> Am I from New Orleans?
>
> It's hard to say without seeing the colors as hue (right word?) makes a
> difference.
Well, I was going to say "blue, green, orange, and purple" but then I
thought, "Why not give those ol' AFCAns a visual by using modifers
like 'cornflower' and 'lime'? And 'bright orange' vs 'burnt orange', I
mean, why NOT clue these people in? Because if I don't write
'cornflower blue' someone might think I mean navy blue or ice blue or
prussian blue or cobalt. But I think I'm safe using 'purple' because
there are many different words for 'purple' such as 'lavender' for
light, bluish-purple, or 'lilac' for light pinkish-purple, or
'eggplant' for very dark purple, or 'violet' for reddish-purple. Now I
know there will be at least one who claims not to understand what I
mean; I suppose if I have to specify further, I can search out the
pantone color chart and give him a number."
http://www.logoorange.com/color/color-codes-chart.php
#130, #258, #382, #689
Veronique
> In our last episode, <1189306228.814879.38...@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
> the lovely and talented Veronique broadcast on alt.fan.cecil-adams:
>
> > I walked into a shop today, and there were displayed lovely bowls, in
> > a selection of four different colors: cornflower blue, lime green,
> > bright orange, or purple. I picked out three of them. If you had the
> > choice, which colors would you choose?
>
> Black is my first choice for everything, but I would go with purple here
> as amethyst is my second choice for everything.
I had a goth-wannabe working for me last year; I made her an amethyst
and onyx bracelet.
Veronique
Both eating and decoration. I'm big into form = function. (I'll give
you the purple one next time you come over for tea.)
Jen
I'd have to go for blue, since my landlady, in Her Infinite Wisdom,
has decreed that the appropriate colour scheme for a tiny flat in a
frigid climate is ice white and blue. With "modern art" on the walls.
And those weird storage heaters that I can never set right.
But secretly I'd covet the green.
--
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Lesmond
>
>
>Veronique <veroniq...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I walked into a shop today, and there were displayed lovely bowls, in
>> a selection of four different colors: cornflower blue, lime green,
>> bright orange, or purple. I picked out three of them. If you had the
>> choice, which colors would you choose?
>
>I'm not currently in the market for bowls. If someone broke all of my
>bowls and I had to replace them, I guess I'd go for one of each except for
>orange.
Leroy.
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cornflower blue
Bill
xho...@gmail.com
258 and 689 both look purple to me. I expected cornflower blue to be
something like 645 or 646.
Charles Bishop
<JenHa...@gmail.com> wrote:
What's a storage heater? Do you have to put coins into it?
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Veronique
Since blue is the only one I didn't get, I'm working from memory, but
it was closer to the 258 than 646 (eg, it had a touch of grey and red
in the blue.) Also, it's more difficult to pick out "blue" when there
is a choice of hundreds of "blue" than one. <g>
Would that difference change your color choice?
Jerry Bauer
(in article <1189308309....@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>):
You didn't make her a newt?
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Mary
Hm. Blue and purple for sure. The green or orange decision would
depend on the hues involved and how they looked next to the blue and purple.
Mary
Greg Johnson
It wouldn't change my choice, but it certainly means I wouldn't
describe the bowl as blue. To me, 2597 is definitely blue, 2587 is on
the border between blue and purple, and 258 is well into the purple
range.
Blinky the Shark
> It wouldn't change my choice, but it certainly means I wouldn't
> describe the bowl as blue. To me, 2597 is definitely blue, 2587 is on
> the border between blue and purple, and 258 is well into the purple
> range.
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Charlie Pearce
<veroniq...@gmail.com> wrote:
I thought this was going to be another thread about sports that USAns
find peculiar.
Charlie
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bill van
I can't tell without eye-balling the bowls. If the shapes are pleasing
and I feel that they'll not so much match as play well with the decor,
I'll buy them -- assuming I need some bowls, or I like them well enough
to replace some existing ones.
bill
Charlie Pearce
wrote:
>On Sat, 8 Sep 2007 20:25:09 -0700, Veronique wrote
>(in article <1189308309....@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>):
>
>> I had a goth-wannabe working for me last year; I made her an amethyst
>> and onyx bracelet.
>
>You didn't make her a newt?
V is a witch now?
Charlie "and she could call her Tiny"
Jen
> In article <1189308474.175140.34...@w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>, Jen
>
> <JenHalli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >On Sep 9, 12:50 pm, Veronique <veroniqueuni...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I walked into a shop today, and there were displayed lovely bowls, in
> >> a selection of four different colors: cornflower blue, lime green,
> >> bright orange, or purple. I picked out three of them. If you had the
> >> choice, which colors would you choose?
>
> >I'd have to go for blue, since my landlady, in Her Infinite Wisdom,
> >has decreed that the appropriate colour scheme for a tiny flat in a
> >frigid climate is ice white and blue. With "modern art" on the walls.
> >And those weird storage heaters that I can never set right.
>
> What's a storage heater? Do you have to put coins into it?
No coins. As I understand it (and I probably don't, because although I
occasionally claim to be an engineer, I'm actually lying through my
teeth), there's some sort of heat-retentive material inside. It only
actually heats up at bizarre (cheap?) times of day, and then radiates
heat from then on. So you have to set the amount of warmth without any
feel for when or how it will actually start working, which leaves me
gobsmacked (I was going to say cold, but...) I've given up and turned
them off; I rely on a blow heater and a couple of thick jumpers. I'd
also love to know why there's no hot water in the afternoons - is it
illegal in England to have a bath after midday?
--
Jen
HVS
> On Sep 9, 2:13 pm, ctbis...@earthlink.netttt (Charles Bishop)
> wrote:
>> In article
>> <1189308474.175140.34...@w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>, Jen
>>
>> <JenHalli...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Sep 9, 12:50 pm, Veronique <veroniqueuni...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> I walked into a shop today, and there were displayed lovely
>>>> bowls, in a selection of four different colors: cornflower
>>>> blue, lime green, bright orange, or purple. I picked out
>>>> three of them. If you had the choice, which colors would you
>>>> choose?
>>
>>> I'd have to go for blue, since my landlady, in Her Infinite
>>> Wisdom, has decreed that the appropriate colour scheme for a
>>> tiny flat in a frigid climate is ice white and blue. With
>>> "modern art" on the walls. And those weird storage heaters
>>> that I can never set right.
>>
>> What's a storage heater? Do you have to put coins into it?
>
> No coins. As I understand it (and I probably don't, because
> although I occasionally claim to be an engineer, I'm actually
> lying through my teeth), there's some sort of heat-retentive
> material inside.
Usually just bricks with a heating coil inside them. The idea is
that the bricks heat up at night on cheap-rate electricity, and let
the heat out over the course of the day during the day; by
evening, they're not giving out a lot of heat.
As a heating system, storage heaters are designed for stay-at-home
people: they suck pretty big time for anyone who's out of the
house during the day.
> It only actually heats up at bizarre (cheap?)
> times of day, and then radiates heat from then on. So you have
> to set the amount of warmth without any feel for when or how it
> will actually start working, which leaves me gobsmacked (I was
> going to say cold, but...) I've given up and turned them off; I
> rely on a blow heater and a couple of thick jumpers. I'd also
> love to know why there's no hot water in the afternoons - is it
> illegal in England to have a bath after midday?
The hot water tank's probably plugged into a timer that turns it on
in the morning for just a few hours. (I understand that it's often
a false economy: it can cost more to heat/cool/heat/cool a tank of
water than to just keep the tank constantly at a reasonable
temperature all day long. Your landlady won't believe that,
though.)
The timer should be adjustable, and there'll definitely be a manual
over-ride on it. Assuming you've got access to it, if you want
some out-of-hours hot water either change the "turn off" time, or
switch the override on for an hour or so to heat the water up.
Hactar
> > times of day, and then radiates heat from then on. So you have
> > to set the amount of warmth without any feel for when or how it
> > will actually start working, which leaves me gobsmacked (I was
> > going to say cold, but...) I've given up and turned them off; I
> > rely on a blow heater and a couple of thick jumpers. I'd also
> > love to know why there's no hot water in the afternoons - is it
> > illegal in England to have a bath after midday?
>
> The hot water tank's probably plugged into a timer that turns it on
> in the morning for just a few hours. (I understand that it's often
> a false economy: it can cost more to heat/cool/heat/cool a tank of
> water than to just keep the tank constantly at a reasonable
> temperature all day long.
Thermodynamics says you're wrong.
> Your landlady won't believe that,
> though.)
I'd go with her, although depending on the insulation, the difference
can be vanishingly small.
> The timer should be adjustable, and there'll definitely be a manual
> over-ride on it. Assuming you've got access to it, if you want
> some out-of-hours hot water either change the "turn off" time, or
> switch the override on for an hour or so to heat the water up.
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Charles Bishop
<charlie...@eidosnet.NO-SPOO-PLEASE.co.uk> wrote:
>On Sun, 09 Sep 2007 02:50:28 -0000, Veronique
><veroniq...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>I walked into a shop today, and there were displayed lovely bowls, in
>>a selection of four different colors: cornflower blue, lime green,
>>bright orange, or purple. I picked out three of them. If you had the
>>choice, which colors would you choose?
>
>I thought this was going to be another thread about sports that USAns
>find peculiar.
I thought it was going to be about Drake and the Spanish Armada.
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Charles Bishop
<JenHa...@gmail.com> wrote:
Not so much illegal as that there's some sort of gullibility factor that
makes Brits put up with such stuff. We can take baths, or showers any time
of day or night. Don't know why that is, since we're gullible too.
--
charles
Charles Bishop
Are there meters on the electric meters? How do they know the night time
electrons are cheaper than those awake during the day?
>
>As a heating system, storage heaters are designed for stay-at-home
>people: they suck pretty big time for anyone who's out of the
>house during the day.
>
>> It only actually heats up at bizarre (cheap?)
>> times of day, and then radiates heat from then on. So you have
>> to set the amount of warmth without any feel for when or how it
>> will actually start working, which leaves me gobsmacked (I was
>> going to say cold, but...) I've given up and turned them off; I
>> rely on a blow heater and a couple of thick jumpers. I'd also
>> love to know why there's no hot water in the afternoons - is it
>> illegal in England to have a bath after midday?
>
>The hot water tank's probably plugged into a timer that turns it on
>in the morning for just a few hours. (I understand that it's often
>a false economy: it can cost more to heat/cool/heat/cool a tank of
>water than to just keep the tank constantly at a reasonable
>temperature all day long. Your landlady won't believe that,
>though.)
>
>The timer should be adjustable, and there'll definitely be a manual
>over-ride on it. Assuming you've got access to it, if you want
>some out-of-hours hot water either change the "turn off" time, or
>switch the override on for an hour or so to heat the water up.
How big are the water heaters? I don't remember the exact amount of time
any longer, but it would take more than an hour for my water heater to
reach a comfortable temp after being off for any length of time.
Peter, John, this sounds like a heating system, both for water and air, up
with which some would not put.
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HVS
> In article <Xns99A67165...@news.albasani.net>, HVS
><use...@REMOVETHISwhhvs.co.uk> wrote:
Re: storage heaters
>> Usually just bricks with a heating coil inside them. The idea
>> is that the bricks heat up at night on cheap-rate electricity,
>> and let the heat out over the course of the day during the day;
>> by evening, they're not giving out a lot of heat.
>
> Are there meters on the electric meters? How do they know the
> night time electrons are cheaper than those awake during the
> day?
They install a special meter which records what time of day the
electricity is being used (in addition to how much). They charge
less for it during the hours of 1am - 8am, when the drain on the
National Grid is low (hence the tariff name of "Economy 7"):
http://www.ukenergy.co.uk/pages/economy7.html
-snip-
>> The timer should be adjustable, and there'll definitely be a
>> manual over-ride on it. Assuming you've got access to it, if
>> you want some out-of-hours hot water either change the "turn
>> off" time, or switch the override on for an hour or so to heat
>> the water up.
>
> How big are the water heaters? I don't remember the exact amount
> of time any longer, but it would take more than an hour for my
> water heater to reach a comfortable temp after being off for any
> length of time.
They're usually a long immersion heater that sits inside the HW
tank -- like the element of a kettle, or a big version of those
curly plug-in travel heaters for boiling water in a cup.
They work pretty quickly.
> Peter, John, this sounds like a heating system, both for water
> and air, up with which some would not put.
>
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Mary
>
> How big are the water heaters? I don't remember the exact amount of time
> any longer, but it would take more than an hour for my water heater to
> reach a comfortable temp after being off for any length of time.
>
> Peter, John, this sounds like a heating system, both for water and air, up
> with which some would not put.
>
It does, but I've never been in a private home in England that works
this way. Apparently it's just rental properties? Would this even be
legal in most places in the US?
Mary
HVS
> Charles Bishop wrote:
>>
>> How big are the water heaters? I don't remember the exact
>> amount of time any longer, but it would take more than an hour
>> for my water heater to reach a comfortable temp after being off
>> for any length of time.
>>
>> Peter, John, this sounds like a heating system, both for water
>> and air, up with which some would not put.
>>
>
> It does, but I've never been in a private home in England that
> works this way. Apparently it's just rental properties?
No; my sister-in-law had storage and immersion heaters in the flat
she owned.
It depends mainly on whether or not the house is serviced with
(natural) gas -- storage heating and immersion-heater timers are a
way of trying to reduce your bills if you have to rely on electricity
for space- and water and space-heating. (Electric heating is
generally quite a bit more expensive than gas over here.)
Veronique
If I had a pantone scale, I'd take it down to the shop and see where,
definitively, the blue bowl falls. It was, to my eye, definitely blue.
While I see the red in 258, I don't see it as purple, but blue with a
touch of red.
Les Albert
I guess being able to take baths after midday is considered wretched
excess to some British landlords. Not having hot water in the
afternoons sounds like living in a European shtetl in the 19th century
... or maybe Iraq today.
Les
Mary
> No; my sister-in-law had storage and immersion heaters in the flat
> she owned.
>
> It depends mainly on whether or not the house is serviced with
> (natural) gas -- storage heating and immersion-heater timers are a
> way of trying to reduce your bills if you have to rely on electricity
> for space- and water and space-heating. (Electric heating is
> generally quite a bit more expensive than gas over here.)
>
Oh, OK. Thanks. But at least your sister-in-law gets to set the rules
if she owns the house, and have, say, a shower in the evening, which Jen
evidently can't.
Mary
Veronique
> In article <1189306228.814879.38...@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
>
> > I walked into a shop today, and there were displayed lovely bowls, in
> > a selection of four different colors: cornflower blue, lime green,
> > bright orange, or purple. I picked out three of them. If you had the
> > choice, which colors would you choose?
>
> I can't tell without eye-balling the bowls. If the shapes are pleasing
> and I feel that they'll not so much match as play well with the decor,
> I'll buy them -- assuming I need some bowls, or I like them well enough
> to replace some existing ones.
Although made in Germany, they bring to mind French café au lait bowls
or chocolate bowls.
The color choice in the shop was Plum, Orange Peel, Periwinkle, or
Lime.
Veronique
^^^^
Yahh, not Lime, Kiwi.
HVS
> HVS wrote:
Yeah -- some landlords are strange about that; it'd drive me nuts.
Dana Carpender
Charles Bishop wrote:
Really? There's no hot water past noon in English rentals? That's just
freakin' uncivilized. How are you supposed to wash up lunch dishes?
And of course, I live on a strange schedule; I often get around to my
shower in the afternoon. Guess I'll have to stay here.
Dana
Mary
Those are nice, though. The orange is a much prettier color than what I
was imagining. I'm starting to think that after we finish remodeling
the kitchen, we should get new dishes. My husband has already gone a
bit wild with the cookware - a set of all-clad saucepans, two Calphalon
omelet pans, a Calphalon griddle, a new waffle maker, oh, the list goes
on. We're going to need a second kitchen to store it all.
Mary
Jen
I should clarify: there's a switch in the kitchen which will give me
extra hot water (it's labelled 2 hours- only the landlady knows what
that actually means) in the afternoon; I'm just bad at remembering to
turn it on before I go out for a run. There seems to be enough
residual hot water for things like dishes, just not enough for a bath.
It's not a huge hassle, just a system I've never come across before.
Compared with the boarding house I lived in in Boston, it's luxury.
--
Jen
bill van
Veronique <veroniq...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 9, 1:39 am, bill van <bill...@shaw.chopchop.ca> wrote:
> > In article <1189306228.814879.38...@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
> >
> > Veronique <veroniqueuni...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I walked into a shop today, and there were displayed lovely bowls, in
> > > a selection of four different colors: cornflower blue, lime green,
> > > bright orange, or purple. I picked out three of them. If you had the
> > > choice, which colors would you choose?
> >
> > I can't tell without eye-balling the bowls. If the shapes are pleasing
> > and I feel that they'll not so much match as play well with the decor,
> > I'll buy them -- assuming I need some bowls, or I like them well enough
> > to replace some existing ones.
>
>
> Although made in Germany, they bring to mind French caf? au lait bowls
> or chocolate bowls.
>
>
> http://tinyurl.com/yq3psr
>
>
> The color choice in the shop was Plum, Orange Peel, Periwinkle, or
> Lime.
>
The shapes are fine, though in size they fall exactly between the two
sets of soup/salad bowls I have in current use. The bigger ones are
actually lime green. The ones you're looking at wouldn't serve any
purpose I don't already have bowls for, so I'll pass. If I were to buy
some, I think I'd look at the yellow ones with white on the inside, and
the several shades of green.
bill
groo
> It depends mainly on whether or not the house is serviced with
> (natural) gas -- storage heating and immersion-heater timers are a
> way of trying to reduce your bills if you have to rely on electricity
> for space- and water and space-heating. (Electric heating is
> generally quite a bit more expensive than gas over here.)
>
It's not more expensive, it's just that you gullible Brits are willing to
pay more for it.
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> Those are nice, though. The orange is a much prettier color than what
> I was imagining.
They're all pretty. Bowls are very soothing.
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John Hatpin
>As a heating system, storage heaters are designed for stay-at-home
>people: they suck pretty big time for anyone who's out of the
>house during the day.
They're only really intended to keep the place from getting cold
enough for the pipes to freeze and the piano to shatter. They were
never really meant to be a provider of heat for humans.
Seriously, though, we used to have storage heaters in the Nice House,
but we had them ripped out when we installed central heating.
The philosophy seems to have been that you have the storage heaters to
provide "background heat" - enough to raise the temperature of the
place a couple of degrees or so 24/7. To be warm enough in a
particular room, you'd have an appliance in each room which you'd turn
on when you went in there and turn off when you left (excepting short
visits or absences).
When we moved in, that place had the following heating in its rooms:
Kitchen: electric radiant heater, wall-mounted
Living room: gas fire
Dining room: gas fire
Master bedroom: gas fire
Bedroom #2: gas wall-heater
Bedroom #3: gas wall-heater
Bathroom: electric fan heater, wall-mounted
The storage heaters were in the hallway downstairs and the master
bedroom upstairs. They're HEAVY, as we discovered when we took them
out. Far too heavy to shift without first taking out all the bricks
inside, which essentially means destroying them, since the heating
element goes through the bricks.
The gas wall-heaters in bedrooms 2 & 3 had timers so you could put
them on for up to (I think) an hour, giving you time to get undressed
and into bed and to sleep before they cut out; similar for getting
dressed in the morning, in case you forgot to turn them off. At least
I think that was the rationale - we never really used them.
It didn't take us long to put in central heating, before the kids came
along. And, believe it or not, we got our central heating system for
free - gas boiler, timer and radiators. We just had to pay for
pipework and labour.
The story behind that was that a FOAFOAF had moved into a house with
central heating and didn't want it, didn't like C/H, so he had it all
taken out and gave it away. Bizarre.
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Veronique
I would have bought a Lemon Peel one if they'd had it. It made me
think about Preferred Decorator Colo(u)rs, as I have some Japanese
rice bowls which have interiors of burnt orange, pale purple, and moss
green. And the cover for the living room futon couch is a tapestry of
oak leaves in greens and pinkish-browns, which the store had put brown
velvet end bits on, and which I had custom-changed to dark violet-y
purple. (Which works better with the tapestry than brown, but I fancy
I have an excellent eye for color.) The kitchen, of course, has the
orange flames motif ragged-off on two walls, so I think secondary
colors tend to be my decorating choice. I almost never buy blue, but I
think blue is a favorite colo(u)r for a majority of people, which is
why I asked the question. (The size is the soup/cereal 20 oz footed
bowl, a shape that always makes me consider buying.)
I had split pea soup in the orange bowl last night, and it was
gorgeous. I think a whole table of orange would be striking and kinda
overwhelming all the time, but I have an anti-matching fetish: three
bowls of the same shape is about as far as I can go.
Veronique
> In article <1189355443.368534.78...@y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com>,
But if you needed bowls and could ONLY choose between solid
periwinkle, kiwi, orange peel, or plum?
Charlie Pearce
<RemoveThi...@gmailAndThisToo.com> wrote:
>Seriously, though, we used to have storage heaters in the Nice House,
>but we had them ripped out when we installed central heating.
I wouldn't have thought that necessary in the south of France.
Charlie
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bill van
Veronique <veroniq...@gmail.com> wrote:
Periwinkle, now renamed blueberry. Second choice, orange peel.
bill
Bill Turlock
>
> HVS wrote:
>
> >As a heating system, storage heaters are designed for stay-at-home
> >people: they suck pretty big time for anyone who's out of the
> >house during the day.
>
> They're only really intended to keep the place from getting cold
> enough for the pipes to freeze and the piano to shatter. They were
> never really meant to be a provider of heat for humans.
>
Shattered Pianos--album name
Bill Turlock
I have an unfurling phobia. I have to get someone else to unfurl
my umbrella.
Peter Ward
I'd suddenly find that I didn't really need bowls at all.
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>
> I had a long and slightly horrifying day in a business class, with an
> instructor who was so taken with himself he did two hours worth of
> introduction, spent the next three hours on really, really simple
> basic concepts that everyone knew, and punted the last bit, when we
> finally got to more complicated concepts, by saying, "Oh, it's all in
> the book, just read that, you'll be fine." So even though I don't
> technically need bowls, I needed a treat.
Perhaps you need to smoke a bowl.
Mary
>
> I'd suddenly find that I didn't really need bowls at all.
>
Your stew and dumplings would be easier to eat from a bowl.
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> > > On Sep 8, 8:04 pm, ctbis...@earthlink.netttt (Charles Bishop) wrote:
> > > > In article <1189306228.814879.38...@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
> >
> > > > Veronique <veroniqueuni...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >I walked into a shop today, and there were displayed lovely bowls,
> > > > >in a selection of four different colors: cornflower blue, lime
> > > > >green, bright orange, or purple. I picked out three of them. If
> > > > >you had the choice, which colors would you choose?
> >
> >
> > > > It's hard to say without seeing the colors as hue (right word?)
> > > > makes a difference.
> >
> > > Well, I was going to say "blue, green, orange, and purple" but then I
> > > thought, "Why not give those ol' AFCAns a visual by using modifers
> > > like 'cornflower' and 'lime'? And 'bright orange' vs 'burnt orange',
> > > I mean, why NOT clue these people in? Because if I don't write
> > > 'cornflower blue' someone might think I mean navy blue or ice blue or
> > > prussian blue or cobalt. But I think I'm safe using 'purple' because
> > > there are many different words for 'purple' such as 'lavender' for
> > > light, bluish-purple, or 'lilac' for light pinkish-purple, or
> > > 'eggplant' for very dark purple, or 'violet' for reddish-purple. Now
> > > I know there will be at least one who claims not to understand what I
> > > mean; I suppose if I have to specify further, I can search out the
> > > pantone color chart and give him a number."
> >
> > >http://www.logoorange.com/color/color-codes-chart.php
> >
> > > #130, #258, #382, #689
> >
> > 258 and 689 both look purple to me. I expected cornflower blue to be
> > something like 645 or 646.
> >
>
> Since blue is the only one I didn't get, I'm working from memory, but
> it was closer to the 258 than 646 (eg, it had a touch of grey and red
> in the blue.) Also, it's more difficult to pick out "blue" when there
> is a choice of hundreds of "blue" than one. <g>
>
> Would that difference change your color choice?
Yeah, I don't think I'd get both 258 and 689, unless I was going for a
whole rainbow of subtly different purples. And the 130 wasn't as
unappealing as I was mentally picturing, so I guess I'd swap orange for
cornflower blue.
Xho
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>On Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:12:50 +0100, John Hatpin
><RemoveThi...@gmailAndThisToo.com> wrote:
>
>>Seriously, though, we used to have storage heaters in the Nice House,
>>but we had them ripped out when we installed central heating.
>
>I wouldn't have thought that necessary in the south of France.
I meant the Utopian House ... no, we didn't live there either ... ah,
fuggetit, dammit.
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Veronique
wrote:
> I have an unfurling phobia. I have to get someone else to unfurl
> my umbrella.
Bill, you don't have to bare *everything* on usenet.
Veronique
> In article <1189362213.418451.13...@w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
It looks to my eye that "blueberry" is, uh, bluer than "periwinkle."
Damn it, now I have to walk back down to the store and check it out
again.
Veronique
His kibble, you mean.
Mary
You wouldn't have this problem if you'd bought one of each color.
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Mary
> On Sep 9, 1:53 pm, Mary <mrfeath...@aol.com> wrote:
>> Peter Ward wrote:
>>
>>> I'd suddenly find that I didn't really need bowls at all.
>> Your stew and dumplings would be easier to eat from a bowl.
>
>
> His kibble, you mean.
Woof.
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Veronique
Don' wan' blue.
Lisa Ann
news:1189306228....@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
:I walked into a shop today, and there were displayed lovely bowls, in
: a selection of four different colors: cornflower blue, lime green,
: bright orange, or purple. I picked out three of them. If you had the
: choice, which colors would you choose?
Everything except the orange.
Unless it was a really pretty sunset orange with some pink to it...then I'd
have to get one of each.
Lisa Ann
Dana Carpender
Jen wrote:
> On Sep 9, 12:50 pm, Veronique <veroniqueuni...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>I walked into a shop today, and there were displayed lovely bowls, in
>>a selection of four different colors: cornflower blue, lime green,
>>bright orange, or purple. I picked out three of them. If you had the
>>choice, which colors would you choose?
>
>
> I'd have to go for blue, since my landlady, in Her Infinite Wisdom,
> has decreed that the appropriate colour scheme for a tiny flat in a
> frigid climate is ice white and blue. With "modern art" on the walls.
> And those weird storage heaters that I can never set right.
>
> But secretly I'd covet the green.
>
So go for green accents. Lime green would look great with blue and white.
Dana
Charles Bishop
Veronique <veroniq...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Sep 9, 1:39 am, bill van <bill...@shaw.chopchop.ca> wrote:
>> In article <1189306228.814879.38...@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
>>
>> Veronique <veroniqueuni...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I walked into a shop today, and there were displayed lovely bowls, in
>> > a selection of four different colors: cornflower blue, lime green,
>> > bright orange, or purple. I picked out three of them. If you had the
>> > choice, which colors would you choose?
>>
>> I can't tell without eye-balling the bowls. If the shapes are pleasing
>> and I feel that they'll not so much match as play well with the decor,
>> I'll buy them -- assuming I need some bowls, or I like them well enough
>> to replace some existing ones.
>
>
>Although made in Germany, they bring to mind French caf=E9 au lait bowls
>or chocolate bowls.
>
>
>http://tinyurl.com/yq3psr
>
>
>The color choice in the shop was Plum, Orange Peel, Periwinkle, or
>Lime.
>
Oh, then these colors are easier to imagine. I'll take Plum, Orange Peel,
and Periwinkle. Don't care much for Lime, though if it were a different
shade, say Kiwi, I'd take one.
--
charles
Charles Bishop
Veronique <veroniq...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Sep 9, 9:30 am, Veronique <veroniqueuni...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sep 9, 1:39 am, bill van <bill...@shaw.chopchop.ca> wrote:
>>
>> > In article <1189306228.814879.38...@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
>>
>> > Veronique <veroniqueuni...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > I walked into a shop today, and there were displayed lovely bowls, in
>> > > a selection of four different colors: cornflower blue, lime green,
>> > > bright orange, or purple. I picked out three of them. If you had the
>> > > choice, which colors would you choose?
>>
>> > I can't tell without eye-balling the bowls. If the shapes are pleasing
>> > and I feel that they'll not so much match as play well with the decor,
>> > I'll buy them -- assuming I need some bowls, or I like them well enough
>> > to replace some existing ones.
>>
>> Although made in Germany, they bring to mind French caf=E9 au lait bowls
>> or chocolate bowls.
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/yq3psr
>>
>> The color choice in the shop was Plum, Orange Peel, Periwinkle, or
>> Lime.
>
> ^^^^
>Yahh, not Lime, Kiwi.
Ah, then I'll have one of these as well.
charles, read ahead for once, bishop
bill van
Veronique <veroniq...@gmail.com> wrote:
I was going by this:
2225156385 - Soup/Cereal Bowl Blueberry
Formerly Periwinkle 5.75 inches, 20 ounces
from the very long list on the www.waechtersbachwarehouse.com website
that somebody posted upthread.
bill
Greg Johnson
<veroniq...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Sep 8, 11:09 pm, Greg Johnson <greg....@gmail.com> wrote:
>>To me, 2597 is definitely blue, 2587 is on
>> the border between blue and purple, and 258 is well into the purple
>> range.
>
>If I had a pantone scale, I'd take it down to the shop and see where,
>definitively, the blue bowl falls. It was, to my eye, definitely blue.
>While I see the red in 258, I don't see it as purple, but blue with a
>touch of red.
Quite possibly it's subtly flecked or otherwise multitoned. That would
make it difficult to match the colour on a pantone scale.
Bill Turlock
>
> On Sep 9, 1:31 pm, Bill Turlock <"Bill Turlock "@sonnnic.invalid>
> wrote:
>
> > I have an unfurling phobia. I have to get someone else to unfurl
> > my umbrella.
>
> Bill, you don't have to bare *everything* on usenet.
>
> V.
huh. just wait till I tell you about my philia!
Veronique
> In article <1189372639.751231.206...@y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com>,
And back from a little walk and forgot to look. On-site, Blueberry
looked blueberrier than Periwinkle, but it does follow the Fruit Names
theme more closely.
cycjec
> I walked into a shop today, and there were displayed lovely bowls, in
> a selection of four different colors: cornflower blue, lime green,
> bright orange, or purple. I picked out three of them. If you had the
> choice, which colors would you choose?
Blue, green, and I guess purple, but I'm not a fan
of lime green really.
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groo
> Veronique <veroniq...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I walked into a shop today, and there were displayed lovely bowls, in
>> a selection of four different colors: cornflower blue, lime green,
>> bright orange, or purple. I picked out three of them. If you had the
>> choice, which colors would you choose?
>
>
> Blue, green, and I guess purple, but I'm not a fan
> of lime green really.
When I see a lime in the grocery store, it rarely looks like it is lime
green to me.
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inspection ain't got a chance." - Kim on afca
Boron Elgar
>"cycjec"<cyc...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Veronique <veroniq...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I walked into a shop today, and there were displayed lovely bowls, in
>>> a selection of four different colors: cornflower blue, lime green,
>>> bright orange, or purple. I picked out three of them. If you had the
>>> choice, which colors would you choose?
>>
>>
>> Blue, green, and I guess purple, but I'm not a fan
>> of lime green really.
>
>When I see a lime in the grocery store, it rarely looks like it is lime
>green to me.
>
Cut it open.
Boron
Jen
I'm actually looking for a rug for the lounge room, with blue and
white and a touch of red and maybe some green. My sister's husband's
uncle owns a rug shop, apparently, and can advise me on real middle
Eastern rugs. Would be a good focal point for visually warming up the
flat a bit.
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groo
Opus the Penguin
> Veronique wrote:
>> Bill Turlock <"Bill Turlock "@sonnnic.invalid> wrote:
>>
>> > I have an unfurling phobia. I have to get someone else to unfurl
>> > my umbrella.
>>
>> Bill, you don't have to bare *everything* on usenet.
>>
>> V.
>
> huh. just wait till I tell you about my philia!
Is baring everything on usenet one of them?
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"Some days there isn't enough herring in the world to give you the
smack you're asking for." - Veronique
Opus the Penguin
> In article
> <1189331643.4...@r29g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>, Jen
> <JenHa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On Sep 9, 2:13 pm, ctbis...@earthlink.netttt (Charles Bishop)
>>wrote:
>>> In article
>>> <1189308474.175140.34...@w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>, Jen
>>>
>>> <JenHalli...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >On Sep 9, 12:50 pm, Veronique <veroniqueuni...@gmail.com>
>>> >wrote:
>>> >> I walked into a shop today, and there were displayed lovely
>>> >> bowls, in a selection of four different colors: cornflower
>>> >> blue, lime green, bright orange, or purple. I picked out
>>> >> three of them. If you had the choice, which colors would you
>>> >> choose?
>>>
>>> >I'd have to go for blue, since my landlady, in Her Infinite
>>> >Wisdom, has decreed that the appropriate colour scheme for a
>>> >tiny flat in a frigid climate is ice white and blue. With
>>> >"modern art" on the walls. And those weird storage heaters that
>>> >I can never set right.
>>>
>>> What's a storage heater? Do you have to put coins into it?
>>
>>No coins. As I understand it (and I probably don't, because
>>although I occasionally claim to be an engineer, I'm actually
>>lying through my teeth), there's some sort of heat-retentive
>>material inside. It only actually heats up at bizarre (cheap?)
>>times of day, and then radiates heat from then on. So you have to
>>set the amount of warmth without any feel for when or how it will
>>actually start working, which leaves me gobsmacked (I was going to
>>say cold, but...) I've given up and turned them off; I rely on a
>>blow heater and a couple of thick jumpers. I'd also love to know
>>why there's no hot water in the afternoons - is it illegal in
>>England to have a bath after midday?
>
> Not so much illegal as that there's some sort of gullibility
> factor that makes Brits put up with such stuff. We can take baths,
> or showers any time of day or night. Don't know why that is, since
> we're gullible too.
>
We just think we can take baths or showers any time of day or night.
Someone told us that so we believe it. It's not really true.
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Veronique
Snidely
[...]
> If I had a pantone scale, I'd take it down to the shop and see where,
> definitively, the blue bowl falls. It was, to my eye, definitely blue.
> While I see the red in 258, I don't see it as purple, but blue with a
> touch of red.
Yeah, that fits.
But I'd want a bowl that was 266 or 270, so I'm not convinced that I'd
get any of these.
Are these ceramic bowls, or colored glass? [I did catch from the other
thread that they aren't plastic]
/dps
Veronique
Glazed ceramic. If I were looking for glass bowls, I'd like these:
http://acaciacatalog.com/images/500/50693.jpg
V., has glass plates but not the glass plate game.
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Snidely
[...]
> Glazed ceramic. If I were looking for glass bowls, I'd like these:http://acaciacatalog.com/images/500/50693.jpg
Nice!
I'd be happy with either of those blues, and the other colors would
come in handy from time to time.
> V., has glass plates but not the glass plate game.
Whoooooooosh.
/dps
Dover Beach
news:1189483688.3...@r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com:
> Glazed ceramic. If I were looking for glass bowls, I'd like these:
> http://acaciacatalog.com/images/500/50693.jpg
>
My mom has a gorgeous ruby-red glass cake plate that she got as a
wedding present. I should dig it out and put
cakes on it.
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Veronique
> Veronique <veroniqueuni...@gmail.com> wrote innews:1189483688.3...@r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com:
>
> > Glazed ceramic. If I were looking for glass bowls, I'd like these:
> >http://acaciacatalog.com/images/500/50693.jpg
>
> My mom has a gorgeous ruby-red glass cake plate that she got as a
> wedding present. I should dig it out and put
> cakes on it.
A Red Velvet cake, right?
I started buying random colored glass plates about fifteen years ago.
Once I picked up a set of salad plates in jewel colors at a local
store. When knives were used, they scratched what I found to be a
plastic coating over clear glass...I was furious and returned them.
A ruby-glass cake plate would be cool. Is it footed?
Boron Elgar
Dover Beach
news:1189522850.1...@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com:
>
> A ruby-glass cake plate would be cool. Is it footed?
>
>
No, it looks more like this:
Though the design on Mom's is plainer. I really should use the pretty
stuff I have more often. I shouldn't just rely on paper plates.
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