I just wanted to post the following argument McKay and I had the other day for posterity (and, no, he wasn't sleep talking for once). A little background, McKay was working on the unfinished Princess and the Frog painting he gave me for Christmas last year, and I was admiring his work.
ME: Ooh, I love the blue tint in the background there!
MCKAY: Uh, thanks? Except that's green.
ME: Really? Is it the lighting in here? Because that looks REALLY blue to me.
MCKAY: No, it's green. You're just crazy.
ME: I don't even see green on your palette, though. I'm pretty dang sure that's blue.
MCKAY: [showing me the paint tube] It's from THIS. Totally green.
ME: Okay, no, YOU are the crazy one. This is totally blue! Are you BLIND, man??
MCKAY: It's turquoise. Otherwise known as "green".
ME: Are you frickin' serious?? Turquoise is a BLUE! Everyone knows that!
MCKAY: Okay, THIS is blue. THIS is green. And look at this--it's totally a green.
ME: It's a LIGHT BLUE, are you insane?! Because I'm seriously considering that you may be insane now.
MCKAY: Julia, I'm embarrassed for you. Look it up.
DICTIONARY: [definition involving mineral description, and THEN] "Also called turquoise blue . a greenish blue or bluish green."
ME: See?! "Turquoise BLUE"! Though, yeah, it's got some green in it. But MOSTLY blue.
MCKAY: Okay, you and the dictionary are both obviously deranged, this is totally a green.
[argument continues for half hour]
What's the weirdest thing you and your significant other have argued about? And that they've been totally WRONG about, as turquoise is obviously in the BLUE family.
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