The original American Idol:

Q: "Who wants to play the ghost of Hamlet's father?"
A: "I."

First Person Ominous

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Q: "Who is impartial?"
A: "I."

First Person Objective

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Q: "Who feels invincible?"
A: "I."

First Person Omnipotent

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Q: "Who can bi-locate?"
A: "I."

First Person Omnipresent

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Q: "Who here can referee?"
A: "I."

First Person Adjudicative

by atomicshark

Multicolored, Multilingual

When we talk of colors, we can't help but be multilingual. Our pictorial world tour of exotic color names continues on through Italy, France, and Greece.

 

by Starfires.

Amethyst. The opposite of "chartreuse" (the name of a pale green liqueur), "amethyst" means "not drunken" in its original Greek. The violet/purple quartz stone was so-named because it was popularly believed to prevent inebriation.

 

by hartlandmartin.

Verdigris. The name of this bright blue-green color is derived from an Old French phrase meaning "green of Greece." It refers to the patina on copper, bronze and brass. In the musical "Wicked," verdigris is the color of the Wicked Witch Elphaba.

 

by modean987.

Vermillion. The name of this bright red pigment is derived from the Latin word for "worm." Vermillion is naturally produced from Chinese cinnabar.

 

by Jesse Gardner.

Cerulean. The name of this deep blue sky color is derived from a Latin word meaning "heavens."

 

by Kelly Sue.

Ecru. The name of this light gray-yellow color comes from a French word meaning "raw, unbleached." Once considered a synonym for beige, ecru is now regarded as a separate color.

 

by key-bee.

Carnelian. This orange-red-brown color is named for the reddish semiprecious mineral chalcedony. The word is derived from a Latin root meaning a flesh-colored horn. The color is famous as the official shade of Campbell's Soup cans.

[Read the entire article in my guest blog at ColourLovers.com.]

From the margins (or margarines, rather) of philosophy:

Piecing together the secret of the one thousand cranes . . .


 

I gave my name, and looked about. Deal table in the middle, plain chairs all around the walls, on one end a large shining map, marked with all the colors of a rainbow. There was a vast amount of red — good to see at any time, because one knows that some real work is done in there, a deuce of a lot of blue, a little green, smears of orange, and, on the East Coast, a purple patch, to show where the jolly pioneers of progress drink the jolly lager- beer. However, I wasn’t going into any of these. I was going into the yellow. Dead in the center. And the river was there — fascinating — deadly — like a snake.
—Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, 1899.

The Corsair Ergonomic Keyboard For Pirates

Redundant: "exhibitionistic streak"

What's it called when the Grim Reaper says "Nighty Night?"

A "euthanism."

At a party, the young woman in mouse- gray is as difficult to see as a mouse, while the ones in brilliant reds and pinks and oranges draw suitors just as a highly colored flower does insects — and are sometimes as readily pollinated.
—Allison Lurie, The Language of Clothes, 1981.

Piecing together the secret of numbers . . .


 

Q: "Who ate everything?"
A: "I."

First Person Omnivorous

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Q: "Who feels defeated?"
A: "I."

First Person Subjugated

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Q: "Who knows what's going on?"
A: "I."

First Person Omniscient

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Q: "Who will win the lottery?"
A: "I."

First Person Prescient

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Q: "Who cares?"
A: "Not I."

First Person Ambivalent

A meaningless swirl in the stream of time, a temporary gathering of bits, a few random specks, a cloud . . . Complexities: green dust, purple dust, gold.
—John Gardner, Grendel, 1971.

Piecing together the secret of the night . . .


 

Some great sea of liquid green with its milk- white crest of foam rose.
—Jack London, The Complete Short Stories of Jack London, 1893.

His heart was a purple castle.
—Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, 1986.