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Blue really does get around. It's associated, in my troubled mind, with pornographic movies, melancholic music, police forces, and super-cleanness (the whiter-than-white, bluey whiteness promised by Daz laundry detergent), and the word "blue" seems especially popular among the names of colors for branding: Bluetooth, Blu-ray, Jetblue, Big Blue, Blue Cross, even Blaupunkt.

Promiscuous Blue would be a great name for a band.

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the whiter-than-white, bluey whiteness promised by Daz laundry detergent

Random trivia: In order to combat the fact that clothing gradually turns yellow as fibres are damaged, modern laundry detergents contain dyes which fluoresce blue under ultraviolet light. The "bluey whiteness" really is exactly that!

You can actually buy bluing agent for your laundry, it's pretty old school, but actually adds a bit of blue dye for the same effect.

http://www.mrsstewart.com/

adds a bit of blue dye for the same effect

Blue dye != blue fluorescent dye. Blue dye simply absorbs non-blue light; blue fluorescent dye absorbs UV and emits blue light.

Ok then, a similar effect :)

And in the old days, to hide dirt and especially to mask the yellow sweat ring that develops around the collar after many days of hard labor, companies issued blue shirts to their workers as a uniform. Hence, "blue collar" work.

In pottery there’s a saying that if you’ve made something and you’re not sure it’s good enough to sell, then you should just glaze it blue and someone will buy it regardless.

"Promiscuous Blue would be a great name for a band"

International Klein Blue is probably the most promiscuous blue you can find, you cant reproduce that unnerving vibrancy on screens yet, pity.

http://www.iainclaridge.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/yves_k...

Wow. That is some blue blue. And that's not even it.

http://training.sessions.edu/resources/interviews/interviews...

Apparently it's the same blue used by the Blue Man Group.

+1 for Blaupunkt. I've always liked that word/brand.

What's your first language?

English, but I had a vintage Mercedes Benz years ago with the Blaupunkt radio and the name makes me nostalgic for a more innocent time (when I thought I could fix up an old Mercedes).

Blue is also synonymous with trust and stability. Hence the predominance of blue in banking logos.

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