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

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

For example: blue.

Get it?

yellow

In the green family

yellow

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

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.
;-)

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.

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?

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

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!

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

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

this is intriguing.

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

No comment.

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

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

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 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?

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.

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

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

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!

I knew Rod always wanted a boy.

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?"

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!

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'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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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)

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

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

It's obviously yellow, fellas.

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

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

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

GUHREEEEEEENNNNNNN!

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!!!

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... ;-)

It's Green... Hum?!

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.

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).

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!

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

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.

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

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

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!

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

Green

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

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.

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.

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 - 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.

What color is Mellow Yellow?

Green

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!

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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

It's Green.

yellowish-green...

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

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" -- ;-)

Seinfeld, right?

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. :-)

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

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. =)

Yes, Jaboobie, but what exact color is pee?

Eric, this is definitely green.

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

It's green.

I think chicks would call radiator fluid yellow.

Thank you, Stephen Free.

Radiator fluid is yellow.

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!

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.

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.

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?

Ok, now you're being gross...

Is.....

Gross? What are you talking about?

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......

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.

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

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

it's Yellow!

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

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.

And this pizzle refuses to dizzle, dog.

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

I can't wait for this phase to pass.

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?

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]

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.

Snoop Rod can hang on the blog anytime, dog.

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

YELLOW!!!!!

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

It's a chick-conspiracy...

Chicks... sheesh...

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!

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.

Gentlemen, it is yellow.

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

YELLOW! YELLOW! YELLLOW!

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 theories are as constant as the Northern Star.

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!

Of course Pantone was created by a clear-thinking, logical man, because it's exact and it correctly identifies the color of Gatorade as green.

Who's this Pantone guy you speak of?

It's Father's Day

I just took a look at a lemon-lime Gatorade

Man, if anything it looks even greener today.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means...

Stop it! I mean it!

Sis-in-law - just a question, are you a sis-in-law of one of the Thinklings?

Regarding this post. The only people who are nuts are those (generally dames or guys who wish they were dames) who look at a bottle of clear, green liquid and see YELLOW.

Chicks!

Yes...I am Jared's whether he will claim me or not...:)

...and I like the way you capitalized "Thinklings"...

Jared's sister-in-law is obviously of a higher intellect than the bunch of you bozos!

Is pbird a male or female?

Pbird also apparently has no sense of humor.

Duuuude! Even Rob is dissin' Blo now!
Blo, doesn't make you want to go Choppy on all of us? Seriously, Blo, where's your nads?

Stupid, stupid men!

Man, I just looked at the bottle again. I was thinking, maybe after all this time and debate, it would indeed look yellow.
Man, it is SO green! Honestly, I can't believe how anyone can look at that image and not think that color is green, or at least more green than yellow. Seriously!

I just took a look at our new emoticon. Actually, he's yellow.

But the gatorade is still GREEN.

Mr. Happy is not amused

How can you live with your deluded selves I wonder

I mean, it's yellow...boys. *wink*

Not if he's feeling any sort of compassion for his pregnant wife - I bet right now he'd say yello!

TMI!!! TMI!!!

Becky, in the name of all that's Holy, have that baby! You two crazy kids obviously need to get back to your normal, um, "routine"...

Heh - that would be awesome :-)

Dang, we are tantalizingly close to 300 comments on this post.

Jared, ask and ye shall receive.
Bill, check your server for two new smileys, one as described for above, and one for Jen.

Or is she going Pthfhfhhhhfhffft with her mouth?

I wasn't sure how else to gloat in that small a space.

Did the other one do what it was supposed to do? (if it did, you'll understand what I'm talking about)

As green as green can be

Yes, they both work, now that I understand the Pthfhfhhhhfhffft thing

Well, Maripat, if you're good maybe we'll make one for you :-)

Okay, the emoticon above was the Jen-specific emoticon, which I thought was supposed to be the smiley gloating. I guess we went with the Pfhhtt thing instead.
Well, then, Pfhttt on you, Maripat.

It drives me crazy that people can't see the plain green in lemon-lime gatorade!!!!

Well, if you would like to make me my OWN emoticon, perhaps a very girly one with a pet rat would be appropriate! LOL!

Did you move the gatorade image a little more to the right?

Maripat - I'm in negotiations with the emoticon-master... No guarantees

sigh.... The delusion continues...

btw, there really is an emoticon master - Rob. He's giving me a tentative yes (but also waffling on when)

You're the man, Bill. Payment will come at the next 'moot.

No, just got started late. Macy slept in, so I slept in.
Beck's getting aggravated. But we really hope today is the day. July 2 is a bit of a red-letter date in our family history.

Btw, I wouldn't have guessed the "url/email" font thing if I had noticed it was Bird who asked the question. I thought it was Bill asking, so I assumed it was something to do with the format or something. My bad for not paying better attention. Way to go, Jewel.

I'll be praying!

Maripat, did you leave the second "o" off of "too"? Or is this one of those Catholic pray-to-saints-type things?

Man, I haven't checked this comment thread in ages. Now it's all clear how some things came to be (re: emoticons). I never did completely understand how my gloating smiley turned into a pffft smiley.

And it's yellow...yellow.

Maripat, Rob the emoticon master has been busy. Will fill you in tonight when I get yours hooked up

And, Rob - thanks for clarifying. I of course knew that the little green gatorade emoticon bottles were an exact match to the green of the gatorade picture, because they are both plainly green.

And Rob wanted me to tell everyone that he is the king

LMAO! Just what is that little smiley face doing?!

What's LMAO? A village in Vietnam?

Maripat's smiley looks like it has some elongated tumor on its chin or something.

Oh my, that emoticon is hilarious.

LMBO.

I love Maripat's emoticon - I got the joke right away.

I think I'm a little jealous.

By the way, while it's not Gatorade, my wife called a cup my son has (which closely resembles Gatorade in hue) yellow the other night. We asked Killian for an unbiased opinion and he said green. He made his papa proud!

Bill, I didn't get it at all until you told me! Cool! It's awesome! ROTFLMAO! (let's see if Jared can figure that one out!)

Rolling on the floor with Chairman Mao?

definitely yellow

Also an Adobe PhotoShop loving chick. I can't blame her for that. Her website takes me back to my days as photo editor of the Baylor Lariat.

Ryan said, "And I'm a guy, and the first thing I thought was yellow. It doesn't even look lime-ish."

????

I think he might be the first guy we've seen to truly call it flat out yellow w/not even a hint of green. I can't figure that one out.

Ryan,

It's also ironic that the background of your weblog is extremely green...

(also, don't take the lighthearted razzing too seriously, we're glad you weighed in)

Zack said green.

Make no mistake: It's green.
I don't mean to be coy -- I was just pointing out that while it is primarily yellow, it cannot be denied that there is some green there...

Oh alright, I'll quit beating around and just come to it:
it's green
it's green
it's green

Another few coworkers' opinions:
Ron -- green
Robert -- green
Steve -- green

Green. And I'm NOT color blind (see post 237), the Navy checked my color vision every year and I have perfect color perception.

It's green.

Green.

It's a limey yellow-green

Further proof that I am, indeed, a girl: That's yellow. Like, a very neon, glow-in-the-dark yellow. I had some Silly Putty that was about that color, and I said it was yellow...my two nephews called it green. Figures.

Hey, Mr. Roberts, I'm a friend of the Wisdoms and the Bennetts...I stumbled across this blog on accident one day. Good stuff you guys have here. :)

Who's Mr. Roberts? I only know Bill "The Juice-Jewel" Roberts.

Then there's Robert Williams...

It's a nickname. I don't believe we've ever met--maybe eventually.

Wow! I was mentioned in this blog B.L. (before lurkdom)!

Lemon-lime gatorade is nasty. I prefer the blue! :-)

The picture at the top sure looks yellow to me! But when I see it in real life it looks more yellow-ish green (mostly yellow with a slight hint of green)

"mostly yellow with a slight hint of green"

Brian is very happily married, but this definitely reveals some extremely chick-ish tendencies.

I actually hate all Gatorade. Ick!

That's true. I can't just drink Gatorade as a regular beverage (as Becky does with blue Gatorade). It doesn't taste right to me.
But after a hard first-to-ten hoops game in the sweltering Houston summer heat, nothing tastes better than an ice cold LEMON-LIME Gatorade.

Yellow. Then again, I adjusted the brightness and darkness on my monitor, and when it's darker, it's greener, and when it's lighter, it's yellower. It all has to do with monitor brightness.

Just so everyone knows, gatorade is green.

Keep the dream alive.

Well, it's an important issue!

Green. Completely, totally green.

Recently I asked some ladies and a college girl what color Gatorade was. We had a live sample before us - this was at a student ministry meeting. They just couldn't bring themselves to say it was green.

Then the college girl started going off on the fact that my T-shirt, which is easily identified as being light purple, was "periwinkle".

Then another dame walked up and noticed that the light green shirt the teenage girl was wearing was, in fact, not green at all. It was "peridot". Not light green, as was easily seen by any sane person. Peridot . . .

Aside from my horror in discovering that I was wearing a periwinkle T-shirt (it's my Sandestin beach shirt - I really like that shirt!) this also confirmed my conclusion that women are completely insane.

So, since I'm a chick, *and* a musician, it's inevitable that I see it as yellow.

I would like to reiterate again that musicianship is not an automatic indicator of a yellow-seer. Bill and I are obvious exceptions to that rule.

Dear Jen

It will continue to generate comments as long as those of the more feminine persuasion continue refusing to see the plain green truth.


Arrr! It's Green!

Guitar (I'm not very good, though) and vocals. :)

Hey, you two lovebirds, don't stand so close!

(Notice Long John Thinkling has his good eye on Jen.)

:rotfl:


I've never met Blo, but I think given the quantity of hair that I'd opt for Long John Thinkling.









It's yellow.

What? Delete a comment right now, when we're knocking on the door of 400? May it never be!

I'll fix your email on comment 389

Good point, Jared. He does kind of look like Captain Caveman.

I bet Cap'n Caveman would know that it's yellow...

Ya'll are color blind. It's sad, really.

Ok, for the doubting mustafas...

go here:
http://www.gatorade.com/?bmk=1.1.gatorade

take a screen shot of the bottle (pref not the illuminated upper left, but rather the upper right).

paste into Paint

click the little paint-brushy thing

click the "yellow" color box (for the color-challenged, that would be the fourth box from the left on the bottom row)

paint a big ole splotch next to the pasted Gatorade shot

now click the "green" color box (that would be the fifth box from the left on the bottom row)

paint another big ole splotch next to the pasted Gatorade shot

It is so yellow, it's not even funny.

(but of course Bill's too "yellow" to post the pix... ;-)

Check out comment #37. I gave Brian too much credit . . .

Ok, it's on now boy.

Get your girly rear-end on the court Tuesday! Sherman's march to the sea will be like a midnight stroll in the supermarket compared to what I'm gonna bring on yo' head!!!

You'll get an up-close, personal, and intimate familiarization with the color of "Spalding" every time you THINK about shooting!

I'm gonna fill up on Krispy Kreme's so that you will feel the full *weight* of who I am!

;-)

Chris Martin thinks it's yellow.

re:Raindream's #406

I found a couple things funny in that story:
1) A coach was buying his cross-country team Krispy Kreme donuts. Carb-loading? Or Lard-loading?
2) "This bullet also hit the glass in front of the conveyer belt where the hot glazed doughnuts were being made." What? is this guy trying to make a plug here? He may as well have said: "Where the golden delicious, hot-from-the-oven, fresh, glazed doughnuts were being lovingly baked... "

heh

By the way Brian, not only do I know what Pantone is while you don't, I also used the bottle you pointed out for our GREEN bottles in our smileys!

Truths:
1) I have no clue what Pantone is (it sounds made up)
2) If Bill would put the colors I compared up, it would be clear that it is WAY more yellow than green
3) "No matter how the wind howls, the mountain cannot bow to it"

;-)

I love this thread. It's the thread that rules the entire Blogdom.

*Siamese accent* The Gatorade, it is yellow.

It took you 417 posts and 4 months to get around to asking your mom? Did you have to work up the nerve or what?

At least she's a smart woman. Must be where you get it from.

No, Brian, it means you are a chick.

Women who see Gatorade as green are sane.

What are you saying, Mr. Roberts? (Of course, I'm not known as the sanest chick in the world, so...)

It's piss yellow you eggheads....who gives a fudge

Yes!

Re: comment #377. I concur with you, Bill.

Hearing about people who think Gatorade is yellow makes me feel downright fierce!

It's GREEN!

No, Raindream - it's OK. You see gatorade as yellow. It's the way you were born.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

electric yellow

Jen's Dad rocks the kasbah!

Bill puts the honk in honkey.

Hey Bill, does this work yet?

Does it work for the stogie, too?

Nah - on more well travelled sites you regularly get up in the hundreds, so I would imagine someone else has topped this one.

On the other hand . . . I've never actually seen a post with more commentage than this.

And - we'll have to depend on Rob to smokify the stoge.

You might need to clear your cache.

Aw Yeah . . .

green gatorade, smoking stogie. life is good...

Of course it is. How could anyone think it was any other color?

It's plain for all to see.

Green.

I'll throw my hat into this ring. Last weekend, not knowing about this Great Debate, my sister (Jen) and father (Jen's Dad) asked me what color Gatorade is. Without pause I said...


Green.

and yes, I'm a chick.

Hey, one daughter got it right! Maybe I should change to be Jaynee's Dad?

Yes I do mix up blue/black socks occasionally. I dress in the dark a lot so as not to wake up Mom. But I'm not so color challenged as to not realize that....

It's a constant, unchanging, ever consistent, unending, undeniable GREEN.

I need a "Jen's Dad" smiley ;-) Bald, glasses, white moustache, GREEN gatorade bottle.

:rotfl:

Had lunch with the parental units after church today. We briefly discussed the YELLOW-green thing - had a few chuckles. I was driving home afterward and heard my cell phone beeping - Dad had called to remind me that it's green. Heh.

My sister was dropped on her head as a baby (by Dad, btw)*. I think that explains everything.






* He didn't intentionally "drop" her - she was in her baby carrier on the kitchen counter. She kicked hard enough to cause the seat to tumble from the counter - it just so happens that she landed on her head.

How do we know it's really liquid in the bottle? Liquid has no color, it is the chemicals in the liquid that make up the pattern of colors that your retina relays to your brain.

Given the color reflective meme... then since our eyes see 'green' (of course it is green... all Gators are male...) then the actual liquid in the container would actually be non-green... as that all the color that is absorbed by the liquid (like a sponge) and all the green rays are reflected off the non-green liquid.

I really am a GUY.. and I think it LOOKS GREEN.

That's funny, because the more I try to see it from a yellow point of view, the more it looks green.

Nope. And I learned how to spell kindergarten, too!

The colorblind are moving ever closer to 500 comments.

I haven't laughed this hard in a long time. Take the picture... load it into a picture editor. I.E. Graphics editor like adobe photoshop. Run the color selection tool/wand over it. On the RGB or CMYK color you will see that the color is in FACT closer to yellow than green. What I have done is posted two bottles of gatorade on a website, one is "true" green, one is "true" yellow according to the RGB scale of Binary Hexidecimal. The two bottles can be looked at at http://www.mattwhite.org/images/gator.jpg

As you can see from a scientific standpoint the liquid in the bottle is more yellow than green, but not entirely yellow or green. I would think that guys... tending to want to be RIGHT, would have done the necessary research to figure this out. Of couse, I may be sticking my own foot in my mouth as I have not read the entire blog, only the first 100. Someone may have already done this test.

Of course being a guy and knowing that the bottle does have some green in it, could mean that the color in fact is some shade of green, seeing that any green presence at all would in FACT make a completly yellow object, NOT entirely yellow. So green could be an answer. Yellow, however is not a correct answer scientifically. Because once the primary color of "true-yellow" is tinged in any way by another color... the color can no longer be called yellow. Green is not a primary color, therfore has various infinite amounts of shades. Ergo, the color IS a shade of green and not yellow... because in FACT there is only one shade of "true yellow". (With exception to the fact that black & white can be added to any color thus changing its contrast. But that's a whole different study in light.) In effect the equation works like this:

All people who say the Gatorade is "green" are correct.
All people who say the Gatorade is "yellow" are incorrect.
All people who say the Gatorade is a variation of green are correct.
All people who say the Gatorade is a variation of yellow are incorrect because there is only one shade of yellow.

Therfore all males who say the Gatorade is green are masters of the universe. Anyone else needs to check the inside of their shoe for their IQ level.

The Gatorade is green... of some type.

Melinda,

Non-ripe banannas are green, of course.

I am the product of science.

The fact that the colour of the liquid is closer to yellow than green (as demonstrated by Matt (post 473) and re-checked by me with an image program) is a good reason to call it yellow.

It is narrow-minded and hasty to say that the liquid is green simply because it contains some blue in it. I could argue that it is not green because it contains some red in it, but that would be just as stupid, so I won't. The fact is that the liquid is neither pure green (made by equally mixing pure yellow with pure blue) nor is it pure yellow. However, it is valid to argue that the liquid is yellow because: first, it's a mixture of mostly red and green with comparatively little blue according to the RGB colour system; second, the colour is indisputably closer to pure yellow than pure green looking at a gradiental colour wheel (Matt's picture essentially demonstrates this); third, the hue of the colour is around 41-42 (pure yellow is 40, pure green is 80) according to the HSL colour system.

I'm intrigued and shocked that most males, given a choice between two crude labels (green and yellow), would choose green to describe the colour of this liquid.

By the way, I'm male.

Balogna

Reading this has lowered my IQ since I got absolutely NOTHING out of it and have grown a few minutes older.

Ah, the infinite potential of people with nothing better to do and nothing funny, insightful, or interesting to say.

i don't know if or why you're still doing this, but i'm a girl and that is so totally yellow. i'm so going with the only colour listed explanation, how can you deny that? its right there on paper.

by the way...wicked cool blog

I sell gatorade. Whenever someone asks for "The Green one", I say "we dont have that" IT'S YELLOW!!!!! are you colorblind??!?!
Remember Slime HI-C with the gostbuster guy on the front? now trhat was green--this is yellow!

New question--what color is the light on the stoplight inbetween green and red? orange or yellow?

OK people, let me clear this up for you, the wrapper is green, so there for the intended color of the gatorade is green, and what color are limes ? green...i guess if you want you can call it greenish yellow..but its not all yellow, and i happen to know kevin, and i know that he does many drugs so hes opinion doesnt count, and the stop light color, although mostly called yellow, is acctualy orange..

kevin, is that the drugs talking again?

Bill, your gay. Lemonlime gatorade is yellow.

Yellow!

I've missed you guys! I'm thinking of reopening RWA.

I can't remember my emoticon code! Help!

Whew! I feel so much better!

Brad, you *do* know that the same thing could be said about men. :)

Exactly...Good call Rob.

Gatorade might be green.

However, the liquid pixelated so very far above this comment for ones viewing pleasure is most definitively......

YELLOW

DC

hey cats. took a little poll today in class...
i asked four guys-they all said yellow.
i asked two girls- one said yellow and one said green.

lets just leave it at yellow.

i asked four guys-they all said yellow.

They were all pretty-boys, no doubt.

Sorry to hear about your accident, Kate.

Kate

I think that steroids affect one's color comprehension . . .

On another note, how are the vocal chords doing? [Kate sang her heart out in the worship band at our Junior High Launch winter retreat last weekend - she's an amazing girl]

my throat is good. i think i might be sick or something....so the nose is kinda malfunctioning....but the chords...doin well.

no- those big muscle football guys are straight-edge.

Kate is correct.

The label on the inside is white.

How could the OUTSIDE label reflect on the INSIDE liquid?

Not only are girls colorblind, they're irrational. :-)

Yet another spam in comment 522. From the same german rascal.

Go away spammer, go away!

whoa, my team for jr. high abs is green eggs and ham!!! that's soo tight!!!!

Hi Marla

Checked out your website - interesting stuff!

Brad - that is tight. Not sure what that has to do with anything, but thanks for the comment!

Kate - um, no. We're still like 150 comments ahead. It will nevah happen

Bill, not only is it sad that it took you that long to figure out what I was talking about with the reference, but it's even more sad that you posted twice in a row...rather lame posts too.

Seems to me he's gettin' nervous b/c he KNOWS his post is going down!! hehehe. and if i'm not mistaken, her post started when yours was already close to 500, if not past it already? Pretty intersting growth chart, eh?? :)

The thread . . . has run off in all directions and has degenerated into calls by "honorary" thinklings Quaid and Stroke (formerly held in high esteem here but soon - it there is any justice in this world - to be defrocked) calling for violence against the fairer sex.


Have mercy on me dear thinkling. I cower in your larger than life presence. Please no defrocking, oh great one.

Wait.

Talk about your straw man. There was no call for violence. I simply stated that I would answer any violent threats made towards me. This is not a sexist comment. Regardless of the threatener, I will answer. (BTW, who said that the answer would include violence in the first place?) It just so happens that the only one threatening is a wayward teenage girl who knows not what she does.

Hi,your homepage looks really good and gives great information!

What do you mean, "make a new post"?
Are you referring to the Login/Post link in the menu? That is only accessible for Thinklings. (Because we all live in different cities, we have to have an access point to create posts from the main page of the web site itself.) Sorry.

Btw, Troy is a friend of mine who shares my intrests.

Hey Bill,

Ok, I will search. I havn't decided if I will see it or not. Look for my posts for more information.

Thanks

Re: comment 542.

Can we spam this spammer? Oh can we? Please, please? Does anyone know how?

I typically stay on top of deleting spam, but because my connection is kinda slow, it can be a lengthy process (for some reason the login/edit page runs slower than the net in general for me). I decided to just let these guys go to town here for two reasons: the comments themselves are relatively innocuous (no "enlarge your pen1s" in the text or anything, just automatic and kinda weird compliments) and they help pad Bird's longest post in the blogosphere.
Also, when people keep responding to the spam, the task of deleting everything becomes even lengthier. ;-)

Again, I apologize for Jen. She's got the yellow-gatorade curse. I, on the other hand, fall into the other camp.


It's GREEN, people!

The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, July 3 2002. Doctoral Candidates in Marketing release a thesis on "The Effects of Color and Flavor Names on Purchase Intentions." They conclude, among other things, that while consumers attempt to make sense of all information they obtain when making a purchase decision, they generally are negatively affected by additional positive attributions such as a specific color or a common name. The current names of Gatorade's other flavors are testiment to the belief that Marketing Execs hold in the power of providing confusing or outrageous information in order to portray theirs as a more positive and therefore desireable product. In short, original Gatorade is NEVER described by the PepsiCo parent comapny or any of its subsidiaries as "green" or "yellow" in order to retain the mystery of abiguity thus allowing the consumer to see the product as any color they prefer. This makes it more attractive to the buyer regardless of gender.

All that research and it's still green.

Wife says it is lime green.
daughter says it is greenish-yellowish.
Am I a lucky man or what.

Well, of course it does, Manders. You're a chick.

Right, shrode.

I was just re-reading the first few comments:

4. Jared
green
Monday, May 5, 2003 @ 2:45 pm

5. Becky
yellow
Monday, May 5, 2003 @ 2:48 pm

6. Daniel - email - url
Lime (greenish-yellow)
Monday, May 5, 2003 @ 3:04 pm

7. Bill
In the green family
Monday, May 5, 2003 @ 3:06 pm

9. Sha - email
yellow
Monday, May 5, 2003 @ 3:56 pm

Synopsis:

Jared gives a strong, straightforward green take, as we would expect from our hub and leader.

Becky's take is strong and straightforward too, as she is married to Jared and shares his admirable qualities. Unfortunately, she is wrong.

Daniel weighs in, leaving the door open for yellowness. Dogs and bees smell his fear.

Bill counters with yet another strong green take. Go Bill!

Sha, acting frighteningly like a dame, gets the honor of being the first guy to unequivocally state "yellow" (although, thankfully, he saw the light in comment 44: I'm not a chick! This Gatorade is totally green!! I change my answer! - well done Sha)

I say all that just to say this:

It's green.

Thanks Gator. That definitely settles it for me.

Reason's why Gatorade is green:
-Gator says it is, and being a Gator, he would know.
-Aligators are green.
-Gatorade is called gatorade, and is named after the aligator which everyone knows, is green.
-It could only be called Gatorade if it had the same color as its namesake.
-truth is that which corresponds to the facts.
-The fact is that the liquid in the bottle is green.
-So Gatorade is green.

And that's the truth.

Amen, brother Phil. Gatorade's green-ness has now been endorsed by a gator. Cool.

OK, so I went back through this thread looking for emoticons. Blo's got one. Bird's got one. Thinkling friend Jen has TWO. Past Thinkling visitor Maripat has one. (I even started my own directory to refer to.)

Where's my emoticon? I need to have one. I will be like Naman on "The Jerk" when he had his name listed in the phone book. "I am Somebody! Things are going to happen to me now!"

(And shouldn't Rod, and Bill, Asbell and Panduke get 'em too?)

Whine, whine, whine, whine, whine.

:gwhine:

No that doesn't work.

what would look like I wonder? May I put in a request? How about if he is real muscular, looks real smart and oozes confidence and charisma? Can you do all that with a smiley? (Or perhaps that one should be called :gego:) I'll quit now while I'm ahead...

Adam's proving again that five-year-olds think it's yellow.

yellow. what about the colour tint of our monitors? regardless, in the store, it's yellow. it has always been yellow. this has never been questioned, until the 5th of May in 2003 which has become my today. thank you Eric for adding to my existentialist self.

Oh, and this is a random fact for Bill:

While we were checking out the site I skimmed through everyone's profile and saw that you are reading "The Gospel According to Tolkien." Dr. Ralph Wood is one of my professors -- and probably the most challenging one I've ever had! I have him for Christian Literary Classics this semester and I had him for Oxford Christians last spring. That's when he was working on the book. We spent over 6 months studying The Lord of the Rings. It was awesome! I think a lot of what's in the book we discussed in class.

I just wanted to share that piece of randomness with you. Let me know if you have any questions for Dr. Wood -- he loves discussing his ideas and showing off his knowledge! ;o)

Hmm.

I've been on hiatus. A time to clear the mind. Get a fresh perspective.

I also got glasses.

With all this in mind, I decided to look at the gatorade again. Perhaps I've been wrong? Perhaps it IS yellow. Perhaps I've misjudged the fairer sex.

Let me take a look.

...

Nah - it's still green. In fact it's even greener now than I remembered.

Chicks are crazy, bottom line.

Even without my glasses it looks green. A fine, manly green.

Manders - Yes, I am, but I'm outta here in May!!! Yay! Praise the Lord! It's taken me nearly six years to work through school, so I'm ready for a change of pace...I just need to get over this darn senioritis and finish strong.

Debbie: Grrrrr!!! I just got started!

I think the bears would say the Gatorade is green, but only out of bias.

Sorry Bill, but this nonconformist bear says it's *YELLOW* because it's YELLOW!

Bill, all joking aside, I can't understand how anyone can look at that liquid and think it's yellow. It is completely green.

OMG! I just read through this thread. You people are nuts. Seriously, this thread is coming up on a year! A year!...It is 1:05 a.m. Friday morning and I have been sucked up into reading through the comments. All from this one question "What color is this liquid". I am having flashbacks...."Did you have sex with this person Mr. President?"

I think my wife left with the kid...When did we invade Iraq?

Cos,

The question remains unanswered, though -

What color do you think the liquid is?