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puce

April 20, 2010

One day last week while sitting on a damp metal bench at the Plymouth Pillars dog park well into the twenty-seventh minute of my lunch break,  I noticed that the often overcast sky of Seattle brings out the puce in the cityscape 


Puce (often misspelled as "puse","peuse" or "peuce") is a color that is defined as ranging from reddish-brown to purplish-brown, with the latter being the more widely-accepted definition found in reputable sources. Puce is a shade of red. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) dates the use of "puce" (in couleur puce) from 1787. The first recorded use of puce as a color name in French was in the 1300s. The word comes from French: puce literally means "flea", as the usual flea coloration is either dark reddish-brown or dark purplish-brown; specifically, it is the color of the belly of a flea

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thunderclap said...

ahhh mark, i also used to spend many hours in that park. in fact i remember us dueling roadmasters once or twice

Posted April 20, 2010 07:37 PM | Reply to this comment

pilder replied to thunderclap...

rookies tend to tell tall tales. If you check the dogpark's myspace page you'd know that roadmasters are out of the question and have been since they kicked the homeless out, replaced the benches and filled it all up with gravel and mutt mitts. And maybe in 5 or 6 more years you can use your real name

Posted April 20, 2010 10:10 PM | Reply to this comment

pilder said prince would have replied to thunderclap...

I said now, overcast days never turned me on But something about the clouds and her mixed She wasn't too bright But I could tell when she kissed me She knew how to get her kicks (Chorus) The rain sounds so cool when it hits the barn roof And the horses wonder who you are Thunder drowns out what the lightning sees You feel like a movie star

Posted April 20, 2010 10:19 PM | Reply to this comment

nasty-boy said...

if i was a purplish flee where would i live? A) under pilders saddle B) in tom's beard C) in rumbergs sock pile D) none of the above there all to gross

Posted April 21, 2010 08:43 AM | Reply to this comment

pilder replied to nasty-boy...

word. I tried to comment on your blog, but my credentials cannot be verified. Take it easy. I find that sometimes, alcohol helps

Posted April 21, 2010 08:56 AM | Reply to this comment

thunderclap, aka 29 said...

man, funny to think how many sodas i drank at that place over the years. the manager guy is pretty nice, said they were trying to expand that park

Posted April 21, 2010 03:06 PM | Reply to this comment

pilder w asser replied to thunderclap, aka 29...

http://pilderwasser.com/images/stack_it_up_pizza_lunch.jpg

Posted April 21, 2010 08:21 PM | Reply to this comment

big time said...

time chzek

Posted April 21, 2010 10:23 PM | Reply to this comment

pham said...

im with nasty in ho chi minh as i type. vietnamese food brings out the puce in my poop

Posted April 22, 2010 12:01 PM | Reply to this comment

pilder replied to pham...

I think there's a beach boys song called little puce poop. peace be with you mp

Posted April 23, 2010 08:26 PM | Reply to this comment

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