They're magically insidious!

[word_geek]

If useless trivia could be harnessed for electricity, my brain could power the city of New York for a year. Case in point: Sparky has a toy that has a number of diamond-shaped tiles in various colors. As a result, any time anyone says "blue diamonds," my immediate reply is "purple horseshoes." Elora tried to explain the reference to Sparky, but

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[shiny_bauble]

Not that I'd be able to say "you forgot Pink Hearts, Red Balloons and ... at some point rainbows and pots of gold?" off the top of my head... nononono.

Also, iirc from some of the early ads I've seen, it was only pink, orange, yellow and green to start.

Oddly enough, I haven't eaten LC's by choice either. (Fruit Loops was the candy cereal which we weren't allowed to have. I still faithfully eat them when I'm out of town on vacation)

[mmaresca]

You may or may not recall, but when Dave Hollingsworth was a Collegian columnist at PSU, he did a column about this: 1 out of 10 people he talked to could say what the Treaty of Versailles was, 2 out of 10 could name the quadratic equation, and 9 out of 10 could sing the Honeycomb song.