IWS #149 Results
 

I’m with Stupid #149 Results

Well, I guess this one went a bit too far. I thought this was a good idea, and that it would be pretty challenging. But it appears that I must have been less than clear with my instructions – I even gave several specific names of catalogs that one could check online to see the sort of color names that I had in mind. However, quite a lot of our entries went in quite a different direction – the most common “errant” direction seemed to be to try to name these colors in some sort of Izuldian fashion as if they were working for Victoria’s Secret, rather than L.L. Bean. Alas, many more 1s than we have ever seen.

Once again, here were the color swatches:



And here are the submissions, I'm not taking a lot of time with this, for obvious reasons:

plum
plum
plum
plum
plum
grape
grape
grape
grape
lilac
grape ape
grape delight
royal purple
Perfect Plum
midnight
eggplant
ocean blue
barney clothes
Viking Winter
royalty
royal
tokyo
Caesar's Robes
Midnite
midnight sky

Okay, so plum is the winner here, and that’s fine. Actually, if each one split up more or less this way, I wouldn’t have been so disappointed.

sky
sky
periwinkle
thunderstorm
dusk
blueberry
mariner blue
ocean on a cloudy day
bruise
indigo
water
calm ocean
lucious lavender
Azure Twilight
ocean
columbine
stormy day
sky clothes
A Summer's Eve
freshwater
slate
cerulean
Ocean Blue
Royal
dark periwinkle

Damn, basically everyone got a single here. I was thinking periwinkle or sky here myself.

topsoil
topsoil
cowboy
leather
honey brown
sandalwood
bark
umber
moss brown
baseball glove leather
poop
coffee
really dirty water
earth
autumn desire
Chocolate Kiss
loden
olive
mud clothes
Touchdown Jesus
soft bark
sepia
Comfy Leather
spice
smooth walnut

Another dud. Just a lot of misses here, I really expected a number of “earth” or “coffee”

sand
khaki
khaki
sand
sand
khaki
desert tan
mocha
desert
cream
heather
natural
apartment wall grey
café au lait
boring
dust
the natural
Summer Sand
canvas
desert clothes
Sandy Beach
latte
Mexican Sand
straw
sahara sand

So, two ways to get three points, not terrible. If I were more charitable with the variations on “sand” maybe that would have helped, but I judged the specific effort to come up with something as offbeat as “Mexican Sand” to be pretty different than the straightforward “sand” which was the sort of thing I expected.

eggshell
eggshell
eggshell
ivory
ivory
fluffy kitty
linen
blanc
ecru
cream
cloudy day
snowy day
angel
pearl
the man
honky white
snow
forever pearl
Frost White
cotton clothes
Angel's Wings
foam
Virgin White
purity
fresh snowflake

Oh, well. At least you could have gotten 2 or 3 points here. Maybe.

cranberry
cranberry
rose
cherry
crimson
strawberry
clown nose
raspberry
rouge
wine
cardinal
circus red
sunset
vampire
salsa
tate
stopsign red
rose petal
rose & raspberry
Magenterrific
fire clothes
Evening Fantasy
achtung
Passionate Pink
ripe raspberry

And a complete miss. Sorry yet again.


So, for our scoring…

One is the loneliest number

Green Caesar
wade moore
kingfc22
Touchstone
Mustang
EagleFan
flere-imsaho
st.cronin
Toddzilla

Got more than their name right

Draft Dodger 15
cuervo72 15
Celeval 8
albionmoonlight 8
Kwhit 5
Karlifornia 4
cartman 3
PineTar 3
Subby 3
Shorty3281 3
CU Tiger 2
wbatl1 2
Coffee Warlord 2

Runners-Up

Butter_of_69 24
digamma 20

And J. Peterman himself… your champion

Anxiety 45



That has to be an all-time low for scoring… my apologies for the apparently misleading text. Glad we got participation nonetheless, and hope this game gets back on track anyway.

WAY TO SINGLE-HANDEDLY KILL IWS!!! :mad::mad::mad:

I never even saw this one. :(

honky white

Way to get three points and then blame it on someone else, asswhite.

xoxo,
third place winner

Weirdest IWS ever... but I enjoyed it.

YA RLY.

In hindsight, I can not believe this wasn't picked....

Ugh, that wasn't pretty for anyone.

Some of these choices are really funny.