Bad names for paint colors

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The F Minus comic by Tony Carrillo for August 21, 2023 shows a woman looking at a wall with three paint samples and lamenting:

 

“Sigh. Well, I know which color is my favorite.

 But why did it have to be the one named ‘Moist Phlegm’?”

 

I’ve shown two other bad color names. Sam Barer’s Four Wheel Drift on September 30, 2006 is an article titled Color Me Crazy – The Best and Worst Paint Names. He says some others you won’t ever see include:

 

Yellow Snow

Blue Balls

Gang Green

High Whore Silver

Stinky Pinky

 

Sam claimed that:

 

“…in 1970 the Chrysler Corp-supported Plymouth Superbird of Charlie Glotzbach started running NASCAR’s Gran National circuit painted in the factory color Plum Crazy. A creative journalist, however, gave the color a nickname that stuck with the media for years: 'Statutory Grape'.” 

 

At Mopar Connection Magazine there is a three-minute video by Kevin Shaw titled When Plum Crazy Purple was almost Statutory Grape: Mopar Connection Shop Talk. It’s close to being a Toastmasters Tall Tale speech.