Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?

Previous Hacker News discussion (the second of three submissions of this link):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4581362

I used to get a lot of pleasure out of using #bada55 as a color when hacking together examples.

chucknorris is the future.

From now on instead of foobar, we use chucknorris.

chucknorris is whatever chucknorris needs to be.