On 9/8/06, Tony Smith wrote: > > On 9/7/06, Russell McMahon wrote: > > > If you want to add to the avalanche that comes to your > > inbox click the > > > first link below :-) If not, take the red pill. Or was it the blue > > > pill? > > > > You take the blue pill and the story ends. > > You wake in your bed and you believe > > whatever you want to believe. > > > > You take the red pill and you stay > > in Wonderland, and I show you how > > deep the rabbit-hole goes. > > > > Bill > > > I always thought it should have been red & green pills, red being bad, green > be good, so you should take the green pill. > > This is the (alleged) psychology behind bank slips, deposits (good for the > banks) are green, withdrawls (bad for the banks) are red. And traffic > lights, of course. It does ocassionally get pointed out 'red' should be > 'yellow', being nature's warning color. Wasps aren't red... but poison > berries sometimes are... > > I recently worked in an office building where I was facinated to see that > the lift indicators (up & down arrows) were different colours. I'd never > seen this before, but more interesting was the colours; up was green, and > down was red. > > Presumably going to work (green arrow) was good, going home (red arrow) was > bad. In the Europe the semaphore colour for walking is green (which is good assuming the ideeas above are correct) and waiting is red (which is bad, that's why everybody walk on red too...). In some places from US, walking is white (which is no defined) and waiting is the same bad red.... Vasile -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist