Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for August 28, 2015

You are attempting to drive me mad.

The something annual Primary Colors of Benetton Yacht Regatta has set sail.

This reminds me of playing Mastermind with my son when he was little. Every now and then, he would give me the wrong clues, like this, just to watch my brain start smoking as I was trying to logic out the wrong information.

I’m only here for the jumble sale.

The winds be shifting, lads, and a blow is coming.We can’t outrun it, by the clouds.Get aloft and trim the sheets and bring her about ninety degrees to port and head into the storm!

We come on the Stroop John BMy grandfather and meAround RGB town we did roam

Red, Green. White. Blue.Is this some kind of coded message? Is the colorist-Teresa playing tricks on the writer-Teresa?I am not impressed—at least, I hope not; that’s been illegal for something like two centuries now….

Drinking all nightGot into a figntMy brain is broke upI wanna go home

Sorry … I’m a CMYK man, but thanks for trying.

Little known fact … Stroop was color blind. (just kidding … never met Stroop)

FYI – I did attend Peabody … but old J. R. was a bit before my time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroop_effect

Teresa showing her skill with PhotoStroop.

If you say so, Captain.

The Stroop effect was discovered in the 1930’s by John Ridley Stroop as part of his doctoral thesis in psychology at George Peabody College for Teachers, which is now Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of education and human development. The discovery, which was published in 1935, has become a classic taught in introductory psychology courses in universities around the world. It is also finding an ever-widening circle of research and clinical applications.

I’ve known for a long time that I’m color blind. This proves it.

So hoist up the John B’s sailSee how the main sail setsCall for the Alpha ashoreLet me go home, let me go home

I know the type… it is a PowerBASIC type.TYPE bgrabytes b AS BYTE g AS BYTE r AS BYTE a AS BYTEEND TYPEIt is quite useful!

I’m late and this Stroop sloop has sailed.