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From: mss2@midway.uchicago.edu (Michael S. Schiffer)
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In article ,
Nancy Lebovitz  wrote:

>I saw a filksong performed by a fellow whose guitar is
>somewhere in the blue/green disputed territory. He sang a verse
>about it being blue. He sang a verse about it being green. He sang
>a verse about the difficulty of naming the color--and by that
>point I couldn't have named the color of the damned thing--it
>was bright, but had gone non-linguistic. The punchline was that
>the guitar was "teal". 

	I actually saw the genesis of the song, and then heard the
filksong a few months later.  This all took place at cons in Michigan
sometime during the mid '80s-- probably Confusion, Contraption,
Conclave, or (conceivably) Babelcon.  I was in high school at the
time, and while I didn't know any of the people involved, I went to a
lot of filksings.  Apparently, the fellow had gotten a good deal on a
high quality guitar because of its unusual color.  (I seem to recall
classing it as blue myself, but I tend to think of most
aqua/teal/turquoise/etc. shades as blue).  After numerous comments
about the "blue" or "green" guitar, Julia Ecklar (who should produce
some more tapes, dammit! :-) ) suggested teal (as I think was noted in
the song).  Some people (including me) weren't familiar with the
color, and Julia explained that it was "the color of the back of a
duck's head."  (According to the OED, a teal is a kind of duck which
gave its name to the color.)  If nothing else, the incident ensured
that I would never forget what "teal" meant.

	BTW, does anyone know the name of the Man with the Teal
Guitar?  Is he (or his guitar) still around?

Mike
-- 
Michael S. Schiffer, LHN, FCS		"I decline utterly to be impartial
Co-author: GURPS Alternate Earths	 as between the fire brigade and
mss2@tezcat.com				 the fire."
mss2@midway.uchicago.edu		-- Winston Churchill, July 7, 1926

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