"Color is cool. When light passes through a translucent object (or bounces off a opaque one), something is going to happen to that light. If the object is colored, the light emitted from the object is going to be the same color as the thing itself.

Or so they say. Me, I look at it a different way. Well, not the science, but rather the semantics of it all. We say ""the cube is blue"" because it emits blue energy when white light is shined on it. But that doesn't make any sense to me; the thing is absorbing all the wavelengths of light that are not blue - There is no affinity between the cube and blue, just an antipathy. Do the personifications of things get upset if called a particular color when they have spent so much effort making sure that color is the one thing it has nothing to do with?

Although I suppose that as a shorthand, saying ""That's a cool yellow messenger bag"" is way better than ""That's a cool every-color-but-yellow messenger bag."" But still, it grates."