2017’s COLOR OF THE YEAR: POISED TAUPE

Sherwin-Williams has chosen their 2017 Color of the Year. The big winner is “Poised Taupe.” Sue Wadden, the director of color marketing for Sherwin-Williams, told the Today Show: “It’s like gray and brown had a baby.” The company says the hue is a modern take on a timeliness classic: “It signals a new direction in society’s ever-growing thirst for beautiful neutrals that bring warm and cool tones together to create one irresistibly versatile color.” 2016’s color of the year, as you may remember, is “Alabaster”.
* Was there a contest? Did I miss the pageant?
* A mix between gray and brown? Well, colors sure don’t get any more exciting than that.
* It’s “irresistibly versatile” if you have absolutely no personality.
* Grayish brown? Sounds like Poised Taupe is poised to take a crap.
* “Poised Taupe” because “Elephant Dung” doesn’t sound like something you’d want to paint your walls.
* And me with all of my walls a kind of Slouchy Mustard.
* Who told Sherwin-Williams they had the right to pick the color of the year?
* Last time we did a story about this, the color was announced by Pantone so you might want to stay indoors ’til we see how this shakes out.
* I say the color of the year will be green. What do you think about that?
* “It’s like gray and brown had a baby.” Relax, you’re just mixing cans of paint here.
* So you’re saying either Hillary or Donald will be doing the drapes in the Oval Office in Poised Taupe?
* The tough part is halfway through January I’ll still be picking the color Alabaster from this year.
AND SOME JOKES FROM PREVIOUS “COLOR OF THE YEAR” STORIES:
* No, here’s how they choose color of the year: “Hey, Lou, what color paint do we have the most of sittin’ in da warehouse?”
* My dad used to drive a Buick Taupe in the 70s.