Friday, September 12, 2008

Happy 50th Birthday, 64!

Since its debut in 1958 on “Captain Kangaroo,” more than 200 million Crayola 64 boxes, holding 12.8 billion crayons, have been sold. All those crayons would circle the earth 24 times!

Just how close a friend are you? Try this interactive quiz to find out!

And for those of you curmudgeonly old-schoolers? Don't bother to check out this page which lists the new color names:

Awesome, Giving Tree, Famous, Fun in the Sun, Best Friends, Super Happy, Happy Ever After, and Bear Hug have replaced those basic colors of yellow, green, red, black, blue, purple, orange and pink. Can you match which is which?

(grumbles in disgust, "No wonder the educational system is going to heck...")

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