Dark Side of the Horse by Samson for June 25, 2023

To answer the question in panel 3: Yes.

Not used as a color word in English until 1510s. Tree name came first.

Both are named after the Dutch royal family.

Questions best left unpondered, Horace.

Back when I bicycled more, I could rate road conditions as: 1. Debris. 2. More debris. 3. Debris, the whole bris and nothing but debris.

C1 – Watch out for that banana peel there Horace,…. HORACE…!!!!… (think that little black patch under the bed frame is Horace…?)

His in-tent is sleep.

C2 – Horace, have you ever heard the expression " If you have a lemon make lemonade"…? It works the same way with oranges “If you have an orange, make a screwdriver”…!

C3 – Horace could be defeeted here…!

Want rest? Count toot tent

Ninety nite.

wait… are those sheep coming over the hill…?

Peace and silence at last! Sleep well, Horace…but you still have to clean up the clutter when you get home!

Clutter, clutterer

not to geezersplain, but the word for the color came from the word for the fruit….

Remember when we used to sit around and talk about nostalgia in the evening? Ah, those were the days.

I didn’t know where he was going with the counting but I eventually became aware of Horace intent. :)

Horace can be such a "T"s.

Colour named after the fruit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(fruit)

Yes, the color was named after the fruit. The Asian fruit’s name in Spanish was naranja, which went from “naranja” to “a naranja” to “an aranja” to “an orange” in English. Before then, the color “orange” was called “red-yellow”, or “yellow-red”, depending on the hue, rather like how we still refer to blue-green as a color today. The Dutch avoid the confusion between the fruit, color, and the house of Orange, by calling the fruit a “sinaasappel” (Chinese apple).