GenX guys, without looking it up or viewing the comments, what was the poop colored crayon in the 64 pack named?

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neonturbo@reddit

God I haven't heard that in a couple decades. I literally giggled when I read your post.

My parents used to use that all the time when describing some ugly brown house or car or something.

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Embarrassed-Cause250@reddit

My parents only ever got me the small packs- my dream was to have the biggest pack, but it was oniy a dream.

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JoyousZephyr@reddit

Have you ever gotten the 64? Or the 96??

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JoyousZephyr@reddit

I....I'm so so sorry. You need to go and get a 64-pack and a really nice coloring book.

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AliceThePlatypus@reddit

Wasn’t it raw umber? Also, what even is “raw umber” 😳

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leicanthrope@reddit

I didn’t know the Marines were such picky eaters.

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It is basically dirt that is iron and manganese oxide rich with some silicates making it very dark rich brown pigment when dried. Burnt umber is the same soil just heated to remove water. It is thought to be soil taken from Umbria Italy hence the name umber also could refer to umbra meaning shadow in Italian. Sienna is a pigment created from soil taken from Siena Italy traditionally.

All pigments are anything you can dry out and crush into a fine enough powder to combine with a binder to make art tools.

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SavoirFaire2Middling@reddit

Trick question, because poop is just the color of whatever crayons you've eaten.

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mindscreamTX@reddit

Border crossing Brown

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JoyousZephyr@reddit

Raw umber.

I remember trying to organize my 64s by color and getting frustrated because they wouldn't fit in full rows. I wanted it to work out to a full row of greens, then one of blues... I also had a hard time with colors like red-violet. Where in the hell should that one go???

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blue-lucid@reddit

Red

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Suit-Local@reddit

See a doctor

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MuddyPig168@reddit

White or tar-black poop is really needing a visit to the doctor/Er

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MuddyPig168@reddit

Pea green …. Aka baby-poop green

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Sad_Acanthaceae2737@reddit

Camel?

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VeeLund@reddit

Burnt Sienna

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spacetstacy@reddit

Burnt Sienna?

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redactedfalsehood@reddit

I still don't know what sienna is?

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spacetstacy@reddit

Im pretty sure it means "the color of poop after eating too many carrots."

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ItsCowboyHeyHey@reddit

Burnt Umber

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IMTrick@reddit

It depends which poop you're referring to. Maize, for example, was baby-shit yellow.

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AaronTheElite007@reddit

Brown. That’s what I saw. It was brown

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statisticiansal@reddit

Burnt Umber

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NedRyerson92@reddit

Burnt Sienna

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Alchemister5@reddit

Look at the rich kid with the 64 pack.

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Puzzleheaded_Use_566@reddit

Burnt Sienna is my guess, too.

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CrowbiwanKenobi76@reddit

Was my first thought

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MW240z@reddit

Umber?

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mytodaythrowaway@reddit (OP)

i believe it was called burnt umber but yes!

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MW240z@reddit

Little green, little brown. I drew a lot as a kid and used that for trees. And poop. lol

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clewing1@reddit

Indian red

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LostBetsRed@reddit

Do you suppose they have negro brown?

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LostBetsRed@reddit

To downvoters: It's a quote from a 1989 Bloom County comic strip which followed another comic strip where Oliver was disappointed to find that the "flesh" colored crayon in his box of Crayolas didn't look anything like his flesh. The strip in question started off with an apology to Crayola; noting that Crayola hadn't had flesh-colored crayons since 1962. Then Opus notes that they do have "Indian red" and wonders if they have "negro brown". Chill.

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RedBaronSportsCards@reddit

Bloom County also went HARD after the cosmetics industry and Mary Kay over animal/testing cruelty.

Calvin and Hobbes, and the Far Side were great but Bloom County is the GOAT.

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LostBetsRed@reddit

"I'm just lying in stocks to keep me from clawing out my own eyes after they clipped them open and squirted in the oven cleaner." Yeah. Had a real impact on a teen in the 1980s.

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RedBaronSportsCards@reddit

If you ran it now, the kids would freak out over the cartoons of bunnies being tortured.

GenX could watch Blazing Saddles, Monty Python, we could read Bloom County, Calvin & Hobbes, we knew who they were making fun of.

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CitizenChatt@reddit

How much is 64 pack these days?

I have an idea for a late Easter 🐣 present 🎁

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letsplaythisnow@reddit

Doo doo brown

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CitizenChatt@reddit

Ran out? Just make more!

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faf_dragon@reddit

You beat me to it!

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jlasher@reddit

Maize

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jimonlimon@reddit

I’m still waiting for a 64 crayon pack with a built in sharpener. Never had more than 32 crayons and I’m still bitter.

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BuckyGoldman@reddit

I got the 128 pack once and after a few months I left it in the sun. I dont think my parents ever bought more than the 16 or 32 after that.

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e42343@reddit

They couldn't trust you with that responsibility.

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dinkeydonuts@reddit

My wife gave me one for Christmas. I was so happy!

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WarPotential7349@reddit

Burnt umber

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Admirable-Sector-705@reddit

That depends on the shade of poo.

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Tricky-You4565@reddit

I don't know the name of the crayon. I just called it "Shit Brown."

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ArtexBonesinger@reddit

Burnt sienna or burnt umber... Both were poo colored

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thisoldguy74@reddit

Those were my 2 guesses as well.

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kimapesan@reddit

2 for number 2

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Parulanihon@reddit

Burnt siena

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SilverAgeSurfer@reddit

Shit stick

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El_Briano@reddit

Im not sure what y’all are eating but definitely just brown for me. Maybe with some occasional dots of yellow.

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speedincuzihave2poop@reddit

I was thinking it was either Umber or Burnt Sienna. But I sort of have an advantage. My wife is an elementary art teacher and I have grandkids. So I see crayons a lot.

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