I'm asking for the color of the liquid inside the bottle.

How do I respond to the question, if I can't leave a comment? Just keep my answer in mind and then wait until you ask for us to list them? And if we can't leave comments, how would I even be able to decide based on what someone else decides? What is the meaning of it all!?
My life is in turmoil!!

Leave a comment with your answer only, no other elaboration.

For example: blue.

Get it?

green

yellow

Lime (greenish-yellow)

In the green family

Is the bottle dented or is that just my imagination?

yellow

Daniel, limes are green. Unless you're talking about the inside of a lime, which might be construed as "greenish-yellow."

Guys and gals, keep those answers rolling in...

Bill, the bottle is dented. Quit being distracted! :-)

Do you know that dogs and bees can smell fear?

Is this some sort of trick question? When you write "What color is this?" are you really asking what color the word "this" is? If so, I change my answer to blue.
;-)

Okay, now I'm reviewing the comments and see you say "The liquid inside the bottle."
So, I guess my answer is green again.
UNLESS
That is still a trick and you want the color of the words "the liquid inside the bottle." In which case my answer is black.
So my answers are green, blue, and black. To cover my bases.
Am I overthinking this?
Am I obsessing?
PLEASE TELL ME WHAT THIS MEANS?!!!

Serenity Now!

I'll tell you what this means. Bird is toying with us. That's what it means. After he has collected 40 comments or so he's going to reply "The liquid is green",

He is evil.

Ok, here's the deal. My theory was that chicks usually see the lemon/lime gatorade as yellow, and guys see it as green.

I think it's green, totally green.

Brandi swears it's yellow.

I remember Danielle (the wife of Blofoot) said it was yellow, and Blo said it was green.

At first, your responses intriqued me because Becky said it was Yellow and Rod said green.

I think it's green.

Brandi claims the only color ingredient in lemon/lime gatorade is Yellow 5. Forget that, I don't care, it's still green.

Here's proof: My son, Nathan, without prompting one day called it "green juice." Now whenever I bring some home he asks for "some green juice, please."

I guess my theory on chicks thinking it's yellow is off since Sha (who is not a chick) called it yellow. What's up with that, Sha?

But Sha's the only one. Not statistically significant. Your point still holds up.

Too bad Blo didn't weigh in. We could see what color mythical creatures thing Gatorade is

Dude, it IS green.
Becky says, "Yeah, like men know anything about color." Then she adds, "It's probably more like chartreuse."
Man! Chicks.

May I summarize the results?

The Gatorade is green.
Chicks are, generally, mistaken.
Eric is evil.
Sha is a chick.

Rod, I hear you! I can't believe that anyone (chick or not) would look at that bottle and say it's yellow. It's green! Sure, it's a lighter shade of green but it's still green!

My wife wasn't so sure this morning. warning: sexist generalization coming: but have you noticed that chicks can never just call something "Green" or "Blue" or whatever? It's always gotta be "eggshell" or "goldenrod" or "chartreuse" [sic].

I just asked Macy what color the Gatorade was. She said "yeyo."
Chicks!

That proves my theory! Chicks think it's yellow and guys see it as green, it's true color!

I've got two daughters and two sons. I'll ask them as well tonight.

this is intriguing.

It's kind of cool that the all-time Comment winner on the Thinklings, nexus of the intellectual universe that we are, is a post on the color of Gatorade.

Bill, make sure you ask them individually. Don't let their answers influence each other.

I love to inflate the comments on my blogs by posting a bunch of responses to my own questions... muwahahahaha!

Didn't the "genious" blog get a lot of comments?

(See how I'm generating more comments by asking questions...)

Rod, aren't you a chick who thinks gatorade is yellow?

Blo, do female Bigfoots see it as yellow too?

No comment.

What does it mean if I didn't think of it in terms of a specific color, but what that color looked like (in this case urine)?

Kind of like how Mountain Dew was never Mountain Dew growing up, it was Goat Piss.

Urine is yellow. (Unless you drink a lot of this here green gatorade.)
Either way, like Sha, you have
chick-ish tendencies.

Rob and Sha are chicks. Hahahahaha.

I'm trying to drum up some non-Thinkling non-male takes on this. I emailed Jen to see if she'd take a shot at the color. Although I'll bet she's got better things to do

If she's got time to sip down a Corona, she's got time to comment on the color of lemon/lime Gatorade!

I'm starting to see how Eric does it. He taunts people into responding and thereby generates more comments for his posts.
I've done my share of taunting, too, but the key I've noticed is that Eric taunts Rob and Sha, who are real people (although of the female persuasion), while I taunt Blo and Asbell, who don't exist and therefore can't respond.

My wife and son beg to differ about my chicktitude.

Besides I wasn't saying which COLOR I thought it was, just that I don't see colors, but what bodily function those colors relate to. Example: my first truck was poop brown.

When have bodily functions ever been chickish? And why am I defending myself?


it's green

My friend Brian took a look and said it was "yellow". I informed him that he is, indeed, a chick. He replied that on my laptop and at the angle that he was viewing it the color could be construed as yellow (he was not looking directly at the screen, but rather from an angle). I think Bird's contention still holds, with only Sha holding the only undisputed exception take of the guy-chick. Or is that chick-guy?

At this point, I don't even care. I just want comments. Please, give me more comments!

Just kidding. Thanks for your help with this study, Bill. I'll have to mention you in the book I'm going to write on this very phenomenon. :-)

I asked a couple of co-workers, both guys. Both said green. Actually one said lime, which was already previously discussed. He changed it to green.

Eric begged me to add a comment to up his comment "score" so here goes...

It's TOTALLY yellow! Can anyone who thinks it's green explain why there is only one artificial color in the list of ingredients?? Do I even need to mention what that ONE color is? And whoever said it was the same color as...uhh...pee should have counted as a "yellow" vote. He only changed his vote so he didn't appear to be "chick-ish."

Brandi, you are assuming that guys EVER read the label on food/drinks. We don't - to do so makes one appear excessively chick-ish.

Rob was definitely under suspicion of chick-ish tendencies, but I think he saved himself by using the salty language of bodily functions in his post - that was sufficiently manly enough. I accept his green vote

The artificial color Yellow 5 was added to make the product look less green, thereby facilitating this stimulating debate.

And I'm not defending my bodily function comment again.

Rob, that's ingenious! That's so, so true. I never thought about it that way before.

I'm not a chick! This Gatorade is totally green!! I change my answer!
The only said yellow at first because i was thinking too hard! all my life, i've viewed it as green though!

Since I own this thread, I'll have to officially ok Sha's change of heart. As I recall, growing up, the green gatorade was always one of our favorite flavors/colors. I never recall Sha referring to it as yellow back then so I'll accept his change.

So all the men are now in-line with my theory! Sure, we had to give Rob and Sha a sex change to get it done, but it's done!

Gender Modification Update:
I have been berating Macy mercilessly over the last five hours. She now agrees that the Gatorade is "geen." Score one for the superiority of men!

I knew Rod always wanted a boy.

Rod, good job being a male! Good job being a good father and showing your wayward daughter what's up.

Rob, on the contrary, I do not want a boy. I just want a girl who thinks rationally and logically about the important questions in life like "What color is Lemon-Lime Gatorade?"

That's a lofty and admirable goal for a father. I want my son to stop sucking his feet, which I think is also important.

he thinks it's green

I want my son (Nathan) to stop saying "ahh hoo hay." We have no idea what it means.

Did I mention that Nathan calls it "green juice"?

Ahh Hoo Hay!

I can NOT believe both of the "yellow" guys changed their answers! That's pathetic! Oh well, I am confident in the truth! I will not, however, use my influence to try to change Nathan's answer because he is a little man and if that means sometimes being wrong where colors are concerned...then so be it!

Brandi just doesn't want to squelch Nathan's "wild at heart" nature. In fact, as a feminine "soul" Brandi should not try to do anything that would appear to keep Nathan safe from harm. Because men (and boys) are meant to be dangerous! Yes, dangerous!

Errr... Woof... Woof... Grunt... Pee... Scratch... Sniff... Lick...

I feel like punching you in the face Eric. Nothing personal, I'm just wild at heart...

Man, that gatorade is SO green! It's just completely, freakin' green.

I'm waiting for J-Stroke to post a comment - he canvassed 8 guys and 8 girls in the church office... We'll see what the results are there.

As you may have noticed, I changed the size of the gatorade bottle. Now it doesn't have a dent (Bill, ok?) and it's smaller and easier to hold.

It's still green too!

I'm going out on a limb:

It's a combination of the two. Just look at the flavor name,lemon(yellow)-lime(green).
So, it's yellow-green. Not sure which gender that puts me in, but I'm secure in my womanhood.

Kids:
Molly (11) yellow
Andrew (13)greenish-yellow
Bethany (9) yellow
Blake (5) green

My better half speaks! But notice she said it was "yellow-green", not "greenish-yello". She led with yellow, being a woman. And my two daughters said yellow. My two sons said various shades of green. I think Bird is definitely on to something here.

Regarding J-Stroke's poll of the church office. Of the 8 guys 6 said green, 2 said yellow. Of the 8 girls, 6 said yellow, 2 said green.

Two guys said yellow? So I guess HNW is one of those gay-hiring churches.

Hey, Bird, you said Nathan hadn't ever seen The Wiggles, but his little phrase is strikingly similar to the Wiggles' song "Wa-hoo Hey! I'm Combing My Hair Today." Hmmmm.

Hey, now that you changed the image of the bottle, it looks yellow to me. ;-) Just kidding.

Well, we'll go with the Wiggles thing then. Brandi and I both don't think he's ever seen the Wiggles, but we don't know what he watches at 3 a.m. when we're fast asleep and he's up, smacking dudes in the mouth, drinking adult beverages, and just being wild at heart in general.

Bill asked that I chime in - without reading any comments in order to avoid being swayed by your discourse. I scrolled down without reading a single one of the 60 (60!) comments.

I'm late to the party of course, but I think it is the color of urine. Crude? Sure, but I'm brutally honest.

And now I'm going to see what y'all said.

OK, another hilarious thread. Makes me wish I could become a part of the entmoot.

I'm flattered that you even mentioned me in the comments before I piped in.

I hate to break it to ya - it's YELLOW. The listing of the artificial color on the label just confirms what we women already know.

Artificial colors only come in primary colors -- Yellow, Blue, and Red. Thus, there is no Artificial Green. So shades of other colors must be listed as one of the primary colors. For instance, a purple drink will have an Artificial Blue #whatever in it.
This Gatorade, which is green, has Artificial Yellow #5, which is obviously a greenish color, but must be listed as "yellow" due to the primary color code of artificial ingredients.

Jared, you are a Jaynius. We can't afford to loss you.

Excellent analysis. Now, please explain the psychosis in females that makes them see yellow where no yellow is. I was counting on Jen to not let us down... vain hope that was.

Oh man Gatorade is completely green

Women see "yellow" first because they are, by nature, shy and cowardly creatures.
Men see "green," because we are -- to quote the fine film "Swingers" -- Money, Baby!

Also, I made up all that stuff about the primary color code of artificial coloring.

Beck just asked me what color Mountain Dew is. I immediately said green. She says yellow.
Friends, this thing is more insidious than we ever imagined. Can we get John Hagee to preach a sermon on it?

Mountain Dew is green.

Jen, thanks for taking the time to comment.

Sadly, I think this post is winding down. Poor little Gatorade post, we hardly knew you... sniff...sniff... That was a nice little world-conquering run you had.

OK, I have the definitive answer. Listen up ladies!

For those of you who do not know color, the universally known system of color matching is called the Pantone System. I checked my Pantone swatch book and the Gatorade is 372, which is right in the middle of the green section.

the gatorade is green.

Pantone? Is that made up? It sounds made up.

(The above is not really a slam on Rob, but rather a quoting of a line from a masterpiece of cinema, "National Lampoon's Vacation.")

Come on! Let's make it an even 70 comments! Gatorade Blog rules! I love you Gatorade Blog! You're the best!

Comment 70

Pantone is indeed a real thing. Any real man should know that.

I love the gatorade blog too - we have really plumbed the depths of our intellectual nexus with this one, I tell you.

I don't really think Pantone is made-up. I'm computer-stupid, not stupid.

The depths of the nexus? Isn't that a mixed metaphor or something?
It's sort of like our church's titling of programs. We are starting a new Life Group program (to replace the old kaput one) that they have titled CoNexus. I know it sounds cool. But does it make sense? Nexus means the intersecting point of different "lines." Co means "together" or something like that and implies a connection. So what CoNexus means is "a connection of intersection." Huh? I'm guessing they're going for something "cool" as opposed to something sensical.
Also, the men's group is called Men's Fraternity. I've always found this redundant. It's like Male Brotherhood.
But they don't ask me . . .
which is why there's always typos in the worship lyrics on the big screens.

So does that make us a male brotherhood who sees a conexus of green in the Gatorade?

I just asked my coworker and she without hesistation said Gatorade is green.

HUH?

I challenged her womanhood, pointing out that it's the color of urine, which is..."pea green," she said. Heh.

So there is hope after all...

(hey, I just noticed that this is comment 75 - c'mon guys, let's get this one to a cool 100)

Okay, if your urine looks like Lemon-Lime gatorade, you need to cut back on the mega-multivitamins.
Or quit your job at C. Montgomery Burns's Power Plant.

5 guys 2 girls at work:

4 guys said lime (which is green)
1 guy said yellow-green

1 girl said yellow
1 girl said lime (green)

And these are all graphic designers who work with color all day

Rod I believe that's nucular power plant

Oh, yeah, right!
"Nucular. It's pronounced nucular.";"0

It's green!
Pansies.

It's obviously yellow, fellas.

It looks yellow, but I prefer Coronas to Gatorade, chodes.
. . . actually, I prefer chodes.

Only 17 more comments to go, dudes. You can do it!

Why isn't Eric doing his part to further the length of his blog? I'm disappointed.

that's 84

What has the conversation digressed to? I'm always happy to add comments!

Man, I literally laughed out loud to the Doug P. comment. :-)

Gatorade is green, like my money

GUHREEEEEEENNNNNNN!

I'm embarassed that Gatorade is made in America.

It's yellow, by the way

Gatorade contains a MIND-ALTERING checmical called Yellow #5 that gives it it's GREEN COLOR! This Chemical was put in Gatorade by the POPE HIMSELF and it ENSLAVES the mind of the drinker. BEWARE!!!

We need to give the UN inspectors at least 6 more months to determine if there is in fact Gatorade, and if so, what color it is.

This is blatant comment padding, guys. I appreciate all of your help, but does this ruin the integrity of this blog?

Someone make some relevent conversation here...

Rod, based on Doug P. falling on you in 1994, shouldn't you say the Gatorade is yellow?

Bill, based on your PDA peterness, shouldn't it be yellow in your book too?

Rob, since you're not offering to donate a Mac to me, should you think the Gatorade is yellow? Oh, wait, you did think it was yellow before... ;-)

Logic compells me to observe that the color of lemon-lime Gatorade is green.

It's Green... Hum?!

Gatorade is NOT green! It is RED - the same color as the blood of the infidels being slaughtered at our gates!

How much integrity can our blog have? The biggest stir we've created in our brief history had to do with the color of a popular beverage.

Bird, thanks for the scolding, since it is obviously YOU doing the comment padding under different names! You are a devious little creature worthy of a Chick tract.
You pad the comments under different names. Then you accuse us for doing it. This is a mindbending, sick little game you're playing here, Bird, and I want no part of it.
This Gatorade blog is taking over my life!

Now I'm starting to think that maybe the comment with Eric scolding was really someone posing as Eric. So that would mean the commenter was scolding himself. Or Eric. I forget.
For all you know, this post could be Eric posing as Jared. Or maybe Jared posing as Eric posing as Jared.
Or it could even be you! Wrap your Zen mind around that!
Later, Gator(ade).

[wobbles head, smirks]
Gatorade is greener than the lichened hull of the sunken Titanic, greener than Teddy Kennedy's flappy jowels after a two-day bender in Kennebunkport.

Hey, Bill, just doing some research regarding your lament about our integrity. In terms of categories, we have posted 11 Theology blogs. Only 4 This is Freakin' Bizarre blogs.
I say we're doing fine.
Keep those Gatorade posts coming!

Have we reached 100 comments yet?

C'mon... Come onnnn... only another comment or two and we're there

YES!

Sorry, Bill, but I think your posts were actually numbers 101 and 102. Blo managed to snag the coveted number 100 spot in a spectacularly timed emergence from mythdom.

yellow

Yes, I was too slow

Laura - thanks for weighing in, even though you are incorrect

Was that really Blo? I don't think so...

I'm a woman. Lemon-lime Gatorade is yellow.

I can see where all the posts originate from and I can tell you a few things for sure:

- Blo has not commented
- Rod grabbed a famous guy's family jewels (on accident, he says)
- Bill writes under the name of Jack T. Chick
- The Gatorade Blog will never die!

I did not claim to be a woman!
The proof? Whoever posted as me, posted as "Rod." I always post as "Jared."
Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

P.S. Bird high-fived Doug at a concert, congratulating Doug for coming out of the closet.

I may send some traffic your way...I just linked the thread.

Someone mentioned Corona...Gatorade is slightly more neon than my favorite beverage. :wink:

The Gatorade blog is like SARS! It spread from the Thinkling continent all the way to Jenland! Maybe it will head to Canada next!

It's still green

Just wonder how many non-Thinklings or non-regular visitors to the Thinklings weblog will get some of our references.
Know it won't help much after the fact, but here is a handy, helpful "glossary" to the Gatorade Blog.
1. Blo -- one of the Thinklings who, by his absence, leads many of us to suspect that he does not really exist
2. Doug P. -- lead singer of a Thinkling-favored band. They have been considered semi-Christian in the past. Doug has relatively recently come out of the closet.
3. El Drudge -- Our name for John Eldredge, the author of "Wild at Heart." We often make fun of this book because it teaches that Christian men shouldn't be "nice" and that "godly aggression" is okay. We make fun of it also because Blo likes it.
4. Jack Chick -- See the Jack Chick blog.
5. Not even gonna try to explain Wilde Silas Tomkyn.

That should do it.
You go, Gatorade Blog! It's your birthday!

By the way, Laura from post #104 was my wife. She thought we were all dumb for causing this much ruckus over Gatorade. Probably because she thought it was the wrong color.

Well, I think, based on the evidence in this thread, that we all are dumb!

The Gatorade blog has exceeded my expectations. Maybe this will be the type of blog that defies all logic in its longevity.

Rod, I did high-five Doug at the concert, but he did not come out of the closet until after he dove into the audience. As I recall, he got back on stage, grabbed himself in a Michael Jackson-esque way, and made his...um...announcement. Rod, as I recall that was well after my high-five.

Green

Well, see now I'm really curious who the band is.

And it's yellow. Yellow. YELLOW!

The band is King's X. Their bass player and lead singer Doug believes that it is yellow, Yellow, YELLOW

Yellow, yellow, I see yellow, yellow, I see yellow, yellow, yellow oh oh oh Lord - Doug from King's X

Sadly, this thread will soon be pushed off the main blog page. But it's still alive! The most comment-infested post in the entire intellectual universe.

I think there's still a question out there that hasn't been answered, well, sort of an implied question: why do chicks see lemon-lime Gatorade as yellow?

Easy, women are pessimists, men are optimists.

The women see a dark, brooding, evil shade of yellow.
Men see a bright, cheery, neon green.

Seriously, I was told the colors around what you see affect how you see it. Maybe the guys are affected by the green on the label and the girls are affected by the orange.

I've looked at lemon-lime Gatorade in a glass and have pondered this very question. It's green; even in a clear glass.

As I said before, chicks see yellow because they are cowardly by nature. Dudes see green, because it is green.

Also, I guess I should point out that the Thinklings aren't glad Doug is gay or anything like that. But we liked the band before he came out, and decided to keep liking them and their music. Doug will come around eventually. (I hope.)

Also the concert stuff me and Bird keep referring to: At one show, Doug staged dived and crowd surfed. I, like everyone else, had my hands up. It just so happened that my open palm briefly came in contact with Doug's, shall we say, crotch. I don't know if it was the same show or not, but at one show, we are in the front row and Bird got a high-five from Doug during the song "Pillow."
Ever since, Bird has claimed that Doug turned gay after my unfortunate hand-loins contact. I say he turned gay after he held hands with Bird during a very emotional song about not being accepted. Doug finally felt accepted by Bird and they joined hands in a celebration of queer pride.

Bill, liked your "Over My Head" reference. I even sang it.
You know what's funny? Doug could probably whup all our butts.

It's still green, though.

Yellow-green

Hmmm....after reading your responses, apparently I'm a hermaphrodite. I always thought it appeared more yellowish than green (I'm female)...but there is a green tint to it.

Chewie, your yellow leanings still leave you as a female.

Chewie - my wife said the same thing "Yellow-green". The difference between guys and dolls here is that guys don't see ANY yellow. The closest you'll get with us is that it is "light green" (well, I suppose Sha betrayed his own hermaphroditish tendencies by claiming yellow and then green, but he's in the definite minority). A female just cannot see the plain fact of the green-ness of lemon lime gatorade. They have to throw in a yellowing factor to it. It's a fundamental difference between the sexes.

It's green. You can go into what variety of green it is, but this is green.

What color is Mellow Yellow?

yellowish-green

Green

I just linked this, and since my traffic is up, you might actually get some visitors as a result. Then again, they don't seem to like answering direct questions on my site, so I ought to be miffed if they'll do so here.

This is such an intriguing observation. I mean, yeah, it has a yellow tinge that gives it the more neon look, but ultimately it's green. Heh.

Thanks Jay. This has truly been a bizarre post - it's gotten way more traffic than any of the other posts in this blog ever have.

Leave it to Eric (Bird) to tap into a hitherto unknown controversy!

"By the way, Laura from post #104 was my wife."

Was?

Bill, I think we should extend the life of this post. It's about to be sucked into cyber space (i.e. our blog archives). How can it be saved? Maybe an entire website just for this thread? How's www.gatoradeblog.com?

Life extended... Look in the left-hand menu

Becky, in regards to your attempt to change the subject by bringing up Mellow Yellow. Being as how I haven't even seen a Mello Yellow since I was a bell-bottomed-wearing little homie in the 70s, I cannot tell you. But what I can tell you is that Gatorade is green. Completely green.

Bill, just so you know Mellow Yellow and Lemon-Lime Gatorade are the same color. With a name like Mellow Yellow, is there any further question?

Yeah, the question is:
Did a chick name Mellow Yellow?

A chick most definitely named Mellow Yellow - plus "Mellow Green" doesn't rhyme and sounds suspiciously like a recreational drug.

Becky, let me ask YOU a question - what color are Gators?

Case closed...

What color is Fruit Punch Gatorade? The color of a gator? I don't think so.
That was a very weak argument for an intelligent man. I'm very disappointed in you, Bill.

Hey, Bill, sorry for Beck's dis. What can I say? We all know who wears the pants in this family.

Check out the URL above for an article (by a chick doctor) explaining the effect of "green"(!) Gatorade on breast milk.

I want to e-mail the good folks at the Gatorade company and see if they have an official word on this matter, but I can't find a contact address on their site.

OK Jared, You just hit a home run with that url: "Green gatorade can also give your milk a green hue." - straight from Debbi Donovan, a Board Certified Lactation Consultant, and a dame to boot!

Becky - fruit punch Gatorade is a later mutation of the original gatorade which was lemon-lime and, therefore, extremely green.

I wonder what exact kind of training you have to go through to become a board certified lactation consultant?

That wasn't just a homerun; it was a grandslam! Rod's at the plate, bottom of the ninth, two outs, bases loaded... smack!

Rod, I justed wanted you to know I laughed so freaking hard when I read your post about our experience at the 1994 King's X concert. That was classic.

It's Green.

Ok, I voted, then read the thread. It's green, pure and simple. I know Jen said Yellow, but what does she know? I'm her father, and I say it's GREEN.

yellowish-green...

just to clear things up... i have called it green gatorade my whole life...

Thanks Chad - and thanks for blogrolling us. I've returned the favor

And of course you've called it green gatorade all your life. Because it's green.

I'm guessing Jen learned her color chart from her mother.

Check this link out: http://www.geocities.com/flatokan/

Scroll down to favorite drink. This is a typical chick.

Even though there's a permalink, looks like Gatorade Blog is petering out. No comments since 9 this morning.
[sniff, sob]
We hardly knew ye, Gatorade Blog.

All good things come to an end. However, this thread isn't dead. I figure it can offically be buried once it's gone for 48 hours with no posts.

Lemon-lime Gatorade is still green.

Oh, yeah, I emailed Quaker, the maker of Gatorade and asked them about the color. I also asked them not to wuss out by saying "yellow-green." I asked for a firm statement from the company, one way or the other.

my (tardy) findings:
6 out of 9 guys say green
3 out of 9 guys say yellow

7 out 9 ladies say yellow
2 out of 9 ladies say green

and i can vouch for rob and bill (not that they need it) about pantone not being made up. also, does the fact that i minored in art give me some "expertise" in colors? i should certainly hope so. as for the phenomenon: i am bumfuzzled. i don't buy the guys don't know colors thing. shawn myers, a guy who makes sure his socks always match his shirts (even pinks and yellows) said green. basically i'm just writing a bunch because i missed out on so much already.

Stroke,

Thanks for help keeping the thread alive. I feel the love, brother.

You didn't mention what color you thought it was. It's ok if you think it's yellow. We'll just give you some Neil T. Anderson books to read and you'll be set free from your bondage, dog.

Stroke,

You need to let me know who the three guys are who said yellow, so I can keep my distance...

i believe the three guys were james martinez, matt tipton (good luck keeping distance there), and jay jackson. eric, i was certain my manhood would not be questioned. i, of course, see green. after all, how could curvature boy NOT grow up to be curvature man?

CURVATURE BOY!!!!!


I'm gonna have to rag on Martinez now.


definitely green

For what it's worth, both James and Matt are musicians - sort of in a different category mental-process wise. I don't know what to say about Jay - I think I'm just going to have to assume that he "goes up the down staircase"...

Just kidding!

CB, what does being curvature man have to do with seeing green?

You're still curvature boy in my book.

On a related note, Brandi and I were in some store the other day. There was a big stack of lemon-lime Gatorades there and I pointed to the liquid and said, "What color is this?" He said, "Green!" That's my boy!

Eric, your boy's name is Brandi?

Bill, I don't accept the musician excuse. You and I are both musicians and we know what color it is. Jay Jackson's answer might have something to do with the mulitple colors he has been sporting on his head.

Brandi's your boy?

Curvature Boy sees green because he has the winding, patchy green of Astroturf in his eyes from too many Putt-Putt courses.

I guess I was just grasping. You are correct, Jay, James and Matt are all now on the suspect list for exhibiting an excessive amount of chickishness.

"Yellow" indeed. It's GREEN!

My bad. Brandi and I were at the store, but we also had Nathan and Daniel with us. That's what I get for typing fast. Nathan said it was green. Brandi, of course, believes it's yellow. Sad.

Sorry about my lapse of reasoning with the Yoda/Gatorade post.
Since I have seen the (truly) Green Gatorade in Wally World, I have come to the conclusion that the Gatorade pictured is more yellow than green. I see green in the pictured Gatorade but since there is 'green' gatorade, I must say that this must be Yellow Gatorade. Oh yes, I AM MOST ASSUREDLY A MEMBER OF THE MALE SPECIES.

Daniel, that doesn't make any sense. What you see are shades of green. You saw the dark green Gatorade.

Go get a good night of sleep.

There is also a truly "yellow" Gatorade. Does this mean the Lemon-Lime Gatorade is now green?
No. It is green because it is green, not because some other color is a darker green or another color is yellow.
Light green does not yellow make.
Why the change of heart?
Daniel, did someone punt you in the jewels?

If there is a truly 'yellow' and a truly 'green' Gatorade then this Gatorade is just another shade of the two. I am left with no choice but to say that we are all right on this matter. I see more green than yellow but I also see yellow when I stare long enough. If it is Lemon-Lime that means it is a combo of lemon and lime. A lemon is yellow. A lime is green. The world is not always black and white and this Gatorade is not all green nor all yellow. Just as people of all races must learn to get along, we must come together under the banner of an integrated Gatorade. Stop the bigotry! Can't we all just, (wipes eyes) just get along?
-- "Look to the cookie" -- ;-)

This only shows what a slippery slope it is into the homosexual lifestyle.

Daniel, I'm probably the only one that got your "cookie" reference, but Kudos!

Seinfeld, right?

I'm lost on the cookie comment. I'm a computer geek, so when I think of cookies I think of the browser doohickies that store things like your name and email address when posting comments on the Thinklings blog

So, Jared, are you suggesting that Daniel does, indeed, butter his waffles on the other side?

Seinfeld is correct. Of course the black and white cookie didn't get along with Jerry's stomach in that episode so my argument may be weak. I hold fast that I am still a red-blooded American heterosexual male even though I see some yellow in that Gatorade. So there. :-)

Daniel, there is some yellow in all green including this Gatorade. That does not make the Gatorade less green because there is also blue in green. Is the Gatorade blue?

I see some white in the sky outside. I guess it means the sky is white! Cool.

Bill, it is from "Seinfeld." Jerry says the black-and-white cookie is the key to racial harmony. "Look to the cookie."

I see some pink in Daniel's closet.

OK, I shouldn't tangle with the mighty Thnklings but I will stand my ground here and say that this Gatorade is neither green nor yellow. It is Lemon-Lime. If there is a truly 'green' Gatorade and a truly 'Yellow' Gatorade, then this Gatorade can be neither truly green nor yellow. If you take black and white and mix them together, you get grey (or gray, I can't ever remember how to spell this). When it becomes grey (gray) it is no longer black or white. So, since this Gatorade has yellow and green in it, it is neither yellow nor green. It IS lemon-lime (its own color).
I am a straight-woman-loving male American and this is what I will testify to. =)

pee

Yes, Jaboobie, but what exact color is pee?

If your pee is that color you need to check yourself into a hospital.

Eric, this is definitely green.

Let me clarify, "Radiator fluid" green or fluorescent green

Exactly! Radiator fluid - Stephen Free, you have nailed it...

It's green.

your pee gets that color when you take a lot of vitamins.

I'd say simply, dirty light green

I think chicks would call radiator fluid yellow.

Thank you, Stephen Free.

This is the post that would not die. No doubt, boo, no doubt...

Radiator fluid is yellow.

Just kidding about the radiator fluid. Did anyone's blood pressure rise for a few seconds?

Not at all - you are helping raise this post to the elusive record of 200 comments.

So, Becky, from your post I would surmise you agree that a) lemon-lime gatorade looks like radiator fluid and b) radiator fluid is green.

ergo - gatorade is green. [Smithers voice] Exxxcellent!

Lemon-lime gatorade is yellow. Radiator fluid is green. I will agree that they appear somewhat similar, but similar by definition is different--not same.

Sometimes certain shades of blue and purple appear similar, but they are still 2 different colors--just like yellow and green.

I love my wife. But maybe she needs to submit to the lordship of her husband here and admit the Gatorade is green.

And, Bill, it is Burns who says "Excellent." Smithers thinks the Gatorade is yellow.

Oh my gosh, is MY face red! I got Burns and Smithers mixed up - d'oh.. I think it's because Burns is always saying the word "Smithersssss' -

And you are correct. Smithers thinks Gatorade is yellow. Burns know that it glows green, like nuclear waste.

Speaking of radiator fluid, I just added some to the wife's car. While it looks similar to Lemon-Lime Gatorade (both green) it definitely does not taste similar. In case you're wondering.

A junior high science teacher once told me to taste the antifreeze we were doing experiments with. I balked. She insisted.
"Who does this lady think she's messing with?" I thought.
So I dipped my finger in it, brought it up to my mouth, the whole time thinking she was going to say, "Stop!"
She just kept smiling.
It was like some weird game of chicken. Who would break first?
It got closer and closer to my mouth. I was thinking, "Is she seriously going to let me taste this? Is this going to kill me? Who does she think she is? If she thinks I'm going to get scared and not do it, boy is she mistaken."
Still smiling.
Still raising the finger to my mouth.
She never stopped me.
I tasted it.
It was actually very sweet, like syrup. I asked her if I was going to die now and how could she let me do that? She said a little taste won't hurt me, but antifreeze is poisonous. If you spill some in your garage or whatever, your pets could taste it, find it sweet, and keep drinking it until they die.
It was pretty tasty.

Oh yeah, it was green, too. But there is yellow antifreeze and orange antifreeze. But I guess chicks would think they are all yellow.

Do you remember that Simpsons episode where Bart was an exchange student in France? The "Crepes of Wrath" was the title, I believe. His unscrupulous hosts were wine makers who put antifreeze in their wine. They made Bart drink some.

Is it true that you can go blind from drinking antifreeze?

No, but it gives you hairy palms.

Ok, now you're being gross...

Bottom line: Gatorade...

Is.....

GREEN!

There. 200 comments... :-)

Gross? What are you talking about?

Um.... nothing... nothing at all...

Go Spurs!

I'm just a new guy, but I have to say that Gatorade is green. To know why it is green I'm afaid you'd have to ask Dr. Robert Cade, the inventor. I believe he is still alive and working on some type of research concerning autism......

Oh yeah.....GO MAVS

A Texas western conference finals would rule...

I'll bet the players for the Mavs and Spurs know for sure that the drink they imbibe at timeouts is green.

It's even green when it comes out of their pores in the commercials.

Pretty soon you guys are going to start saying that grass is green when it's obviously yellow!

The grass in the yard of my neighbor across the street is yellow.
Must be tended to by a chick . . .

[cold stare, hair smartly tousled, lips pursed in a sanctimonious pout]

it's Yellow!

Uh, yeah, I'm pretty sure it's yellow too!

I just checked the Gatorade blog again; it's still green!

The liquid, she is yellow.

My mom's over at our house this week. She identified the lemon-lime Gatorade as yellow. What a shock! Nathan, my three-year-old boy, still calls it green.

I emailed Gatorade asking for their response a couple of weeks ago. The auto response thing said they'd get back within 2 to 3 biz days. So far, they've wussed out and haven't responded.

That shiite's green, yo.
Like the Benjamins in my wiz-allet.

And this pizzle refuses to dizzle, dog.

Le's go for 300, my posse...

Yo, Trey and a Double-O would be Kool and the Gangrene, know what I'm sayin'?

I can't wait for this phase to pass.

Which phase... our childish and obsessive pre-occupation with the color of Gatorade, or "Snoop Roddy Rod's" new groove?

My parents are coming into town for the week tomorrow morning, so my presence will be scarce online.
I've asked Snoop Roddy Rod to pick up my slack. That's cool with everyone, right?

For Rob T:
Don't hate the playa, yo. Hate the game.

No worries, Jared and Roddy-Rod, I have no doubt that the slack of your absence will be picked up by Sha, Phil, Kenny, Asbell, and even Blo. I expect lots of heartfelt, thoughtful and cogent posts...

Syeah, and maybe monkeys will fly out of my [scatalogical term for the posterior]

Yo, don't bust a gut
Why you gotta leave out a word like "butt"?

While I am not as poetic as my friend Snoop Rod, I do have to ask if "butt" is a "scatological reference."
Seriously, Jewel, loosen up.

Oh, yeah, Gatorade is green.

Hey, I'm man enough to say the word "butt". I see the green in gatorade same as you, pooch.

Snoop Rod can hang on the blog anytime, dog.

The Gatorade post almost seems like a decrepit old man. But, hey, it's only been alive and kickin' for 15 days! It's still a verdant little baby!

Hi, here's the scientific approach (seems the epitome of guy-ness to me -- no offense to lady scientists). I took the picture, cropped out everything but the top half of the bottle where the liquid shows through, then ran a gaussian blur filter on it to extract the "average" color. This color comes out to be:

Red: 204
Green: 210
Blue: 64

Since the only colors involved in the green/yellow debate are red and green, blue can be disregarded (it really only determines the brightness of the color).

Now, yellow in RGB is produced by setting R and G to the same value, and blue to a value between 0 and 255. High blues make it a more pastel yellow... until it becomes plain white at 255, 255, 255.

So with Red and Green values of 204 and 210, this means that the average color of the liquid is yellow, plus 6 minute shades (or 3%) green.

So perhaps this whole debate shows the difference between men and women: women tend to look at the big picture, while men are better at picking out the minute details.

Or maybe I'm just trying to add to the confusion of an already too-long thread.

David

"So with Red and Green values of 204 and 210, this means that the average color of the liquid is yellow, plus 6 minute shades (or 3%) green."

In other words, it's green.

YELLOW!!!!!

Yellowish green.

True to form, I just polled my sister and she thinks it's YELLOW...

It's a chick-conspiracy...

Chicks... sheesh...

It's green. Definitely green, dogs.

Speaking of dogs, if they weren't colorblind they'd know Gatorade is green. Even that big dumb Great Dane that Bird punked last week would have sense to know that plain truth.

Cats on the other hand, would look at a green bottle of Gatorade and see yellow. They are very chick-ish animals.

But back to my fam - my mom said it was "chartreuse" - whatever that means (why can't dames just come out and say it's green?!) and - in a shocker - my sister's husband Darrell who in all other ways is extremely manly seemed to think Gatorade was "Yellow with a hint of green"...

Gadzooks!

I still haven't heard from Gatorade. I emailed them like three weeks ago asking they settle this for us. It must be a chick who received the email and knew her company's official take was "green" but chose to delete the email in favor of her yellow buddies.

That sounds just like what a chick would do.

The last thing we need is some femme fatale from Gatorade spreading her yellow-eyed propaganda.

It is green.

Dude, I'd call their 800-number. If they have one.

Gentlemen, it is yellow.

I do get my color skillz from my mother - my father is practically color-blind.

Jen,

I believe your father proved his color NON-blindness in comment #145, above, by correctly identifying that the liquid in the bottle is, indeed, green.

YELLOW! YELLOW! YELLLOW!

OK, Maripat - maybe your blog is way farther up the ecosystem than ours. Maybe you get ten times the number of hits and visitors. Your posts are better, your commentary more intelligent, and you've got better legs.

But you are one mistaken broad when it comes to the color of gatorade. It is green. Totally green.

I'll bet Lori thinks it's green.

In the history of color, this is the greenest of any green EVER.

It's GREEN!!!!

YESSSSSSSSS!!!

And did you catch Maripat's take in comment #239? That's a TERRIBLE take!

This big burly dude I now said yellow. What's up with that? He should be a big burly chick.

A big burly chick. Like Bill Walton?
Man, that dude hacks me off every second he's mouthing off. He never met a hyperbole he didn't like.
By the way, who won the game the other night? I missed the second half due to Bed Wars, and by the time I emerged, Becky had fallen asleep and couldn't tell me.

The Spurz, baybee. By over 10 points

There are, of course, big burly dudes who go up the down escalator...

Lori says it's YELLOW! And I'm glad you realize that we have better legs than you!

I've seen Bill's legs. That's not saying much.

Still green.

Bill's legs are green?

Go Spurs! Game 2 tonight. I'm thinking Macy may get an extended bedtime so Dada can see the end.

On my laptop, the liquid is green if I am looking from an angle, but straight on, I have to say it's more yellow than green w/ a spritz of lime (the inside of a lime!)

Shawn!!!

Shawn is one of my better half's best friends. She is also - of course - a chick and therefor wrong about the color of Gatorade. She started out strong with a confident green take. But - dame that she is - couldn't leave well enough alone.

"yellow w a spritz of line"... Typical...

My cousin Steve just e-mailed me. He visited the site and said he enjoyed the discussions, particularly this Gatorade post. He even did his own test with members of his family. Here's the gist of his e-mail:

"Just for kicks, I asked LaVonne, Kyndra and Colton (3 1/2 years old) what color it was and
they answered, respectively, yellowish-green, yellow and green. Colton was
the least hesitant with an answer and gave an immediate "green" with a tone
that suggested I was an idiot for having to ask."

LaVonne is his wife, Kyndra his daughter, Colton his son. (He has an older son too, but I guess he didn't quiz him.) So two girls said the word "yellow" and the boy said a very definitive "green."
Man, Bird's theory is really holding up.

My theories are as constant as the Northern Star.

Want to read something funny? Read the last paragraph of post 67 on this very thread...

Heh - yeah, that's pretty funny, Bird! If only we had known

But you have really hit on a bona-fide phenomenon. I never would have guessed that the sexes see colors differently. Or that the feminine strata of our society could be so deluded.

This post lives! I wonder how long it's run will be? I say we go for 300!

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