the colour orange.

[Planetary]

d'ya think they named the fruit after the colour, or the colour after the fruit?

[P of R]

More importantly, what's the colour of orange juice?

[kleptomaniac]

what came first, the chicken or the egg?

[P of R]

what came first, the chicken or the egg?


You're too beastie for beastie-free.

[burbboi]

Orange in both cases, is bangin'.

[kleptomaniac]

You're too beastie for beastie-free.

wow thanks!

[jackrock]

More importantly, what's the colour of orange juice?
... you just blew my mind!

[Guy Incognito]

You're too beastie for beastie-free.

Might sound like a stupid question - but how do you get on a beastie free forum on a beastie boys website without being beastie in the first place?

[na§tee]

i often think if it wasn't impossible what it would be like to discover a new colour.
imagine a new colour..
exactly! you can't. but.. imagine.
if by some miracle our wavelength spectrum was extended..
duuuude.

[Planetary]

yeah, i tried to do that a few times...its weird.

[discopants]

i often think if it wasn't impossible what it would be like to discover a new colour.
imagine a new colour..
exactly! you can't. but.. imagine.
if by some miracle our wavelength spectrum was extended..
duuuude.

You never saw Gary Kelly's Disco Pants. They changed the free world and are denied by the government. My life direction was complete.

[ms.peachy]

The colour is named for the fruit. It comes from an old Sanskrit word nagarunga which means something like 'elephant's fruit'. (I don't know why elephants, but there you go.) Oranges are indiginous to China and the south Asian subcontinent. Later in trading, the word became narandj in Arabic, and then naranja via the Moorish conquests in Spain, appearing in some texts in a shortened form nranj. The first recorded use of the word in the form orange is in a Middle English text from somewhere around 1380. I've no idea what they called the colour before that!

[P of R]

Might sound like a stupid question - but how do you get on a beastie free forum on a beastie boys website without being beastie in the first place?

I'm not beastie, and still I'm here.



Ok....maybe a little beastie, but I don't listen to them anymore.

[Planetary]

The colour is named for the fruit. It comes from an old Sanskrit word nagarunga which means something like 'elephant's fruit'. (I don't know why elephants, but there you go.) Oranges are indiginous to China and the south Asian subcontinent. Later in trading, the word became narandj in Arabic, and then naranja via the Moorish conquests in Spain, appearing in some texts in a shortened form nranj. The first recorded use of the word in the form orange is in a Middle English text from somewhere around 1380. I've no idea what they called the colour before that!

that's more interesting than i expected, thanks (y)

[like2_drink]

what came first, the chicken or the egg?

the egg by about 2million years.

chicken eggs clearly came first. the first ever chicken had to have come from an egg...just sayin'

[Tzar]

"LOOK I DON'T WANT TO DISCUSS IT, ALRIGHT! HEH! I WOULDN'T EVEN WANT TO DISCUSS THE COLOUR OF ORANGE JUICE WITH YOU, NEIL!"

[CrankItUp!]

In Living Color (y)

[P of R]

"LOOK I DON'T WANT TO DISCUSS IT, ALRIGHT! HEH! I WOULDN'T EVEN WANT TO DISCUSS THE COLOUR OF ORANGE JUICE WITH YOU, NEIL!"


What I thought about exactly. :D

[ms.peachy]

Also: it is thought by some students of ancient Greek mythology that the "golden apples of the Hesperides" that Hercules was tasked with finding and bringing back to Eurystheus may have in fact been an early reference to the fruit we know as an orange.

[Freebasser]

I've no idea what they called the colour before that!

The colour orange occurs between red and yellow in the visible spectrum at a wavelength of about 620–585 nanometres. It is the same colour as the fruit for which it was named. Before the orange fruit was introduced to the English-speaking world, the colour was referred to (in Old English) as geoluhread, which transliterates into Modern English variously as yellow-red, yellowred, or yellored (all pronounced the same).

[ms.peachy]

OK then, I 'll file that away for my next appearance on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. :)

another factoid: The Italian word for tomato pomodoro translates to "golden apple".

[iceygirl]

ms peachy :)

*daydreams about a dark cloud zooming over the plane of the earth ages and ages ago like pooping out chicken eggs because some energy that rules this odd place knew the world needed chickens*

[Rawr]

what came first, the chicken or the egg?
THE EGG. its obvious.
there had to be an egg to hatch the chicken, a chicken cant just be there from sratch, an egg would be more sensable in that situation. so hah :p

[Hiebz]

if it were the egg first, wouldn't it need incubation of some form?

[like2_drink]

THE EGG. its obvious.
there had to be an egg to hatch the chicken, a chicken cant just be there from sratch, an egg would be more sensable in that situation. so hah :p

congratulations on repeating exactly what i said :D

[adam_f]

The 'u' in colour is completely unnecessary.

[DapperDiverge]

what came first, the chicken or the egg?

this reminds of this poster i saw the other day of a chicken fuckin an egg... get it?? who came first?? LOL!! :D

I wanna get that poster!

[Bionic]

Why do people say "I'm going to take a dump"? You don't actually receive anything. You do a "dump". That has always bothered me.

im gonna start saying 'leave' a dump

[Sarky Devotchka]

this reminds of this poster i saw the other day of a chicken fuckin an egg... get it?? who came first?? LOL!! :D

I wanna get that poster!

I am going to murder the inventor of that poster so nobody can have it ever.