Kids say the darndest things - funny

[bainsey]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

The disrespect charge is just nonsense. The teams don't care....

Not true, sir.

Within five miles of me, there are two high schools that wear purple, and one that sometimes wears orange. (I'm sensing 26YearGap is trying to figure those out.) I've been thanked before for saying "purple" and "orange," rather than "blue" and "red." Schools indeed care that you get their color right. It's their color.

Sometimes, "the way it's always done" should be good enough, especially in the absence of a compelling reason for change.

Here's a reason. If you're watching Northwestern or Northern Iowa, and tell others, "those uniforms are blue," you'd be dead wrong. Same goes for Tennessee and red. Again, I don't have a problem with spitting out an extra syllable, as long as I'm accurate.

I say "gold" for yellow works. Thankfully, no maroons around here. But purple ain't blue, and orange ain't red.

As an aside, I don't think any high school in our entire state wears brown.