A stupid idea

I wrote this a few years ago. I'm posting it here since I can't think of anything else to say.

A friend of mine is about to have a baby. He's been trying to come up with a name for the yet-to-be born kid.

I suggested he name the baby a color, but not the name of the color like "Yellow" or "Green". The actual color... the visual hue. It would be a name that could only be "pronounced" by seeing the color.

If the child's name was the color blue, you would hold up a blue card to address him. If you wanted to yell at him for doing something wrong, you would hold up a much larger blue card. When whispering to the kid before putting him to bed you would hold up a very, very small blue card. You get the idea.

If you didn't want to carry a bunch of color cards around with you, you could just grab whatever's handy, like chalk for a pool cue, an acid-washed denim jacket or something else that's blue. I really shouldn't have to offer suggestions for things that are blue. If you're too stupid to figure that out, you probably can't read this anyway.

Either that or you're color blind. Sorry. You probably are color blind. I hadn't even thought of that.

Admittedly, naming your child a color could cause a few problems, especially later in life. A phone call might go something like this: "Hi. May I please speak to (silent pause)." The person on the other end of the line would probably be holding up the colored card during the pause, but you might just think the person was being a dick by not saying anything. You'd probably have to use some sort of decimal system as an alternate spoken version of the name. So 23338.87880-2211-3990 would be the spoken version for the kid with the blue name.