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We asked you to come up with a name for Tom Jones's skintone as seen on page 40
Posted by David Hepworth on 9 November 2010 - 3:46pm.
These were all good:
"Autumn Maple" - Andy Afford
"Dickinson Sunrise" - Itf
"Rhondda Vermillion" - Archie Valparaiso
"Irn Bru Orange" - Clarahopscothc
"Sanatogen Mist" - McKinley60
"Pumpkin Glow" - Parthurtweet
"Naugahyde Clutchbag" - FiveCentres
"Ooompa Loompa Pantone 1885" - Jo db
"Apricot Glow" - RogerWormtidy
"Tangerine Dream" - Ganglesprocket
BUT THE WINNER IS.......
"Sunbed Catastrophe" - Drakey Girl
No prizes. Just the warm glow of achievement. If that's the word.
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Damn...
...pipped (geddit?) at the post by the lovely Drakeygirl. Still, it's not often I get to tweet the words 'Oompa Loompa' so...
Inspired use of Oompa Loompa, JoLean
And now I've got the Charlie & The Chocolate Factory song going round in my head (albeit with slightly amended lyrics):
Oompa Loompa doo-ba-de-dum
It's not unusual to be loved by anyone
For those who haven't seen the picture..
Imagine this
Singing The Green Green Grass Of Home very loudly and you'll be pretty much there.
Did Caribbean sunset get pitched in..
Would have been my shout if not...
"It was an honor just to be nominated"
*applauds with smile on face. Sacks agent*
"We're all winners here"
*silent gnash*
I haven't seen the picture in question
but if it matches Lennys handbag I would call it Recreation Room 1973.
I had a wallpaper in my bedroom growing up in the 70's in that exact colour, and a brown nylon carpet that burned my knees. The kitchen wallpaper had big orange flowers all over it. In fact, the only parts of the house that didn't have orange and brown walls and floors were the rooms that my parents couldn't afford to renovate.
I liked growing up in the 70's, but even at the time I thought the ever present orange was a little too much.
As obviously fake as the hair colour was, it still looked more natural than the new "healthy glow"...
I thought that
all those mocked-up pictures of the 70s were all the décor is brown and orange were exaggerating - I never realised it was true!
Ah, the innocence of youth!
The glorious 70's! The spectacular wallpapering! The plastic furniture - I had an eggshaped armchair in orange plastic with a brown cushion to make it slightly more comfortable. As soon as I sat down in it the static electricity would make my hair stand on end, and when I got up and left, quite a few hairs was left behind in the force field of the chair. Lovely.
I gave it away to a charity shop when I moved to my first flat. One month later I saw a specimen of that very design in the window of an antique shop specializing in modern design. I couldn't bring myself to look at the pricetag...I was very poor at the time, it could have given me a heart attack.
Mock not the Seventies
What other decade was like living in a box of Jaffa cakes?
Thing is,
not everyone's house was like that. We had some really Seventies bits and some not. Most peoples' houses were full of Sixties tat with some garishly-patterned curtains bringing it up to date.
Watching any Seventies-set TV makes it look like everyone lived in a branch of Brentford Nylons.
Good point
Even today, much of the stuff we see around us has been in use for 5-10 years and often a lot longer. It makes sense, if you think about it. Most of the cars parked on a typical street in the Seventies were actually two-tone-blue Vauxhall Crestas and cherry-red Hillman Imps from the Sixties rather than brown Austin Maxis and Morris Marinas.
That said, we did have orange walls and a catshit-brown shag-pile carpet in the lounge. When I visualise it I can still hear the strains of Jack Jones Entertains emanating from the wall-wide Ferguson stereogram. It used to get stuck in the middle of "The Impossible Dream".
No matter how hopeless, no matter how far,
To fight for the right, without question or pause,
Chun or pause, chun or pause, chun or pause....
Bravo Drakeygirl
Excellent work all round
My 'Beverly Hills Standard Neutral' came nowhere. Rightly.
Thanks, Beezer
I've been drawing up a business plan to bring all of these shades together in a new spray-tan range called Massive Fakes. JoLean's already got an idea for the ad, which willl feature all the 'little people' not yet gainfully employed for the panto season. You can do the Dragon's Den pitch if you like.
You in?
Masslve Fakes?
not talking about the nation' s sweetheart Katie Price are we?
I'm in
but only if my pitch can involve a brief moment of me mooning Peter Jones.
It can't fail.
Pantone 021 coated
Haven't seen it either, but judging by the reactions, and to inject a solid note of cynicism - are you sure someone in your Photoshop department didn't just pump up the red saturation levels? Easy enough to do I can assure you.
I would have suggested
Monkhouse Mirage Factor 10
Well I was obviously disappointed
that Tropicana Umber was unplaced. Disappointed, but not surprised.
Tom Jones to duet with Mark E. Smith in performance of ...
I am Kurious, Oranj
I'm late to this one
but he reminds me of a Fanta Santa. I fell asleep on page 39 last night. Probably a good thing...
Orange-u-tan
Late entry and not very good, but we live in a free society so there!
Dutch Oven
Oh no, hang on, that something else entirely
The whole debate got me
The whole debate got me thinking about Claudia Winkleman. Watching Film 2010 the other night I was thinking, how nice of the Beeb to splash out on a sofa exactly the same colour as Ms W's skin.
Also, is that a pair of tarantulas clamped to her eyelids? I think we should know!
No they spent all their money
on getting someone to swear copiously offstage
and of course making it shockingly poor
A bit late to this one...
"Tangoed In The Night"
I'm surprised that...
no-one has mentioned the master of the fake tan himself, so I'll go for 'Winton Wonderland' because I can't think of anything better.
Paprika Panic
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King Crimson?