BS: What colour is your city?

Subject: BS: What colour is your city?
From: Mr Red
Date: 10 Dec 05 - 04:24 AM

I think of Birmingham as brown
Bristol is definitely a bright blue
London is some indistinct grey like the mud of the estuary

not synaesthetic but more prosaic

So I am expecting a suitable c0ulor for hUll as s00n aS j09Hn sees this.

Subject: RE: BS: What colour is your city?
From: David C. Carter
Date: 10 Dec 05 - 05:28 AM

My home city London, is definitely BLACK.The city I live in,Paris,is for me LIME GREEN,except for the Seine,which is SLIME GREEN.Some words seem to have their own color.I think Rimbaud wrote something along the same lines.David.

Subject: RE: BS: What colour is your city?
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 10 Dec 05 - 05:55 AM

Aberdeen is gray, literally, buildings, pavement, sea, sky are all grey! against all probability at the moment even the light is greyish. It is a very depressing place.
Edinburgh is usually pinkish in the summer,(all the luvvies congregating here for the festivl) but is blue in the winter (blue is the colour of the civic christmas decorations!)
I always feel that glasgow it the colour of Burberry tartan liberally stained with blood.

Subject: RE: BS: What colour is your city?
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 10 Dec 05 - 05:58 AM

It's Scotland, it's winter, therefore the colour of the city is black. I didn't write the above, It's just she never bothers to sign in on her cookie to say anything!

Subject: RE: BS: What colour is your city?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 10 Dec 05 - 05:59 AM

Newton Aycliffe is a sort of council red/grey.

Subject: RE: BS: What colour is your city?
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Dec 05 - 09:10 AM

Sorry Birmingham is undoubtedly BLUE. Though some would advocate Claret and blue, but they're wrong.

Subject: RE: BS: What colour is your city?
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Dec 05 - 10:02 AM

Silver Spring, MD, being too near Washington, DC, is greenish camouflage. See my house, there in the center?

Subject: RE: BS: What colour is your city?
From: GUEST,Rolf
Date: 10 Dec 05 - 10:10 AM

It isn't. My city is Schenectady. It's totally colorless.

Subject: RE: BS: What colour is your city?
From: *daylia*
Date: 10 Dec 05 - 10:51 AM

Barrie, Ontario ... a Golden place to be any time of year!

Subject: RE: BS: What colour is your city?
From: artbrooks
Date: 10 Dec 05 - 11:28 AM

Albuquerque   Pinky-brown, sage-green and sky-blue. Kinda gold right now.

Subject: RE: BS: What colour is your city?
From: artbrooks
Date: 10 Dec 05 - 11:43 AM

Jenn says she thinks of Pittsburgh as kind of a silvery-blue, except for Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. Of course, IMHO, it looks like this for entirely too much of the year.

Subject: RE: BS: What colour is your city?
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Dec 05 - 11:46 AM

London to me is a rainbow. Garish, majestic, diverse and beautiful.

Subject: RE: BS: What colour is your city?
From: gnu
Date: 10 Dec 05 - 01:10 PM

London... rainbow... neat!

Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada is Chocolate, being on the "Chocolate River", the once mighty Peticodiac River, where a tidal bore three feet high or more and over a mile wide would roar in and fascinate. A river that teemed with salmon, trout, shad, dolhins, seals, and others. A river that carried a hundred wooden sailing ships a day.

Then, some idiots built a causeway and fucked up the natural order of things. Now it's a few hundred feet of chocolate coloured turbulence, bordered by chocolate colored mud flats that ain't no good fer nothin, a toxic dump and a sewage plant. And the bore is a bore.

But hey, our baseball team is called The Moncton Mudcats, so it was all worthwhile, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: What colour is your city?
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Dec 05 - 01:19 PM

Juneau Alaska is green and gold. Green because of its conifers, and gold- well, because of its street lights which are on all day long all winter.

Subject: RE: BS: What colour is your city?
From: goodbar
Date: 10 Dec 05 - 01:23 PM

seattle is blue

Subject: RE: BS: What colour is your city?
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Dec 05 - 01:24 PM

Rockville is an off mauve and neon beige kind of place.

Subject: RE: BS: What colour is your city?
From: dianavan
Date: 10 Dec 05 - 01:56 PM

Vancouver is the colour of the inside of an abalone shell.

Subject: RE: BS: What colour is your city?
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Dec 05 - 02:33 PM

Nice, dianavan.

Subject: RE: BS: What colour is your city?
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Dec 05 - 04:50 PM

Pocatello, at the moment, is black ice-gray snow-old slush colored, all highlighted with the snow in the surrounding hills, the dark green of the conifers, and the color of the winter sage.

Subject: RE: BS: What colour is your city?
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Dec 05 - 10:11 PM

Right now I would describe our Twin Towns as white and sparkly. But that's because it is early winter, and the snow is still clean. Come February, it's a much darker place.

The color I think of most when I think of St Paul, for some reason, is a sort of slate, or blue-grey. A stormy spring sky sort of color.

Subject: RE: BS: What colour is your city?
From: Helen
Date: 11 Dec 05 - 02:54 AM

Newcastle, NSW, Oz is blue and gold, all year round. Blue ocean, blue sky, gold sunshine, soft gold-coloured beaches.

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: What colour is your city?
From: Manitas_at_home
Date: 11 Dec 05 - 04:02 AM

London is green. There are trees all over the place, more parkland that any other comparable city and odd patches of grass all over the place. Even the inner city has houses with gardens, piazzas and aquares are planted with trees, shrubs and flower beds. Offices have flower boxes on the windows and rooftop gardens. Epping Forest starts only a few miles from the City.

Subject: RE: BS: What colour is your city?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 11 Dec 05 - 05:15 AM

A coat of many colours! What with summer plants & christmas decorations & banners & the bright blue sky & summer sun & brightly dressed residents & tourists we can't feel anything but happy. Ho Ho Ho

a kaleidoscope of stunning Christmas light projections
my office is to the left of the Town Hall

Macquarie nightlights

The Living Colour festival involves spectacular floral displays
one of these displays is in front of my office

Subject: RE: BS: What colour is your city?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 11 Dec 05 - 05:51 AM

Halifax [ WestYorkshire ] the town centre is a cross between multi coloured puke and brownish curry sauce, well it is on saturday morning.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: What colour is your city?
From: number 6
Date: 11 Dec 05 - 08:56 AM

Saint John the colour is brown, "Edwardian Brown" in all seasons.

Interesting thread Mr. Red.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: What colour is your city?
From: Padre
Date: 11 Dec 05 - 06:36 PM

Eagle Rock, VA is (as an old C&O railroad town) the color of faded wood, with the blue of the James River running through it.

Padre

Subject: RE: BS: What colour is your city?
From: bobad
Date: 11 Dec 05 - 06:44 PM

gnu

Moncton must of been more colourful when Bill Lee was playing baseball there.

Subject: RE: BS: What colour is your city?
From: Morticia
Date: 12 Dec 05 - 07:08 AM

Bath is cream.......http://www.bath.ac.uk/bath/images/bath-royal-crescent.jpg

Subject: RE: BS: What colour is your city?
From: gecko
Date: 12 Dec 05 - 07:28 AM

Mother Nature puts on her own special Christmas show at this time of the year with just about everything coming into blossom at the same time - it's beautiful. The brilliant red of the Poinciana and Flame trees is contrasted with great slabs of bright yellow from the Wattles. Purple, pink and white Frangipanni not only delight the eye but also dazzle the nose with heavy perfume. Truly, Cairns, Far Noth Queensland, is a kaleidoscope of colour - pity the weather is so bleedin' hot and humid, but then you can't have everything!

Merry Christmas to all

YIU

gecko

Subject: RE: BS: What colour is your city?
From: mooman
Date: 12 Dec 05 - 07:46 AM

Brussels is John Major underpants grey, except the very centre where the grey is alleviated by a kind of Edwina Curry hot red. All the above of course speckled with ordure brown spots. At the edge, near the forest, where I live the grey gives way to a multitude of shades of green whilst retaining the brown spots.

Peace

moo

Subject: RE: BS: What colour is your city?
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 12 Dec 05 - 08:36 AM

Hull is crrently beige with a hint of puce.

Subject: RE: BS: What colour is your city?
From: Paul Burke
Date: 13 Dec 05 - 04:18 AM

Judging by the behaviour of the local youths on a Saturday night, Wirksworth has been thoroughly painted red. But my valley is green, though I'm not sure how green.

Subject: RE: BS: What colour is your city?
From: Mr Red
Date: 13 Dec 05 - 07:48 AM

OK OK I retract - LONDON is a brash bright dazzling colour - but the precise one is............... who cares!

Subject: RE: BS: What colour is your city?
From: Emma B
Date: 13 Dec 05 - 08:34 AM

Chester is the colour of old weathered red sandstone
http://www.cityofchester.org/gallery/w3.jpg

Paul - your grass is always greener on the other side! :>)

Subject: RE: BS: What colour is your city?
From: GUEST,muppett
Date: 13 Dec 05 - 11:43 AM

Even though Bradford didn't win the bid for City of culture it's definatley multi coloured.

Subject: RE: BS: What colour is your city?
From: Emma B
Date: 13 Dec 05 - 12:02 PM

Chester can be black and white too

http://members.tripod.com/~Simons_B/vacn_99/rows.jpg

Subject: RE: BS: What colour is your city?
From: manitas_at_work
Date: 13 Dec 05 - 12:18 PM

"OK OK I retract - LONDON is a brash bright dazzling colour - but the precise one is............... who cares! "

At least some of us who live here....obviously!

Subject: RE: BS: What colour is your city?
From: Firecat
Date: 13 Dec 05 - 07:55 PM

Doncaster is red and white. And this is why!