Man colours

Have you ever wondered how somebody ever came up with paint colour names like Dead Salmon and Atomic Vomit Green and Hamster Cuddles? Think you can do better? Well, here’s your chance! CIL Paint is running a contest on Facebook to re-name colours like Tutti Frutti and Ballerina Slipper with more manly names – the theory being that a guy will be more likely to want to paint if he’s putting Beer on the walls instead of Butterscotch. Frankly, the only way to persuade my hubby to get out the brush and roller and get to work is if the paint TASTES like beer. But who knows, maybe there’s some logic to this.

What’s the grand prize in the manly chip name contest? A manly $10,000 home theater, of course! If you think you’ve got what it takes to be a manly-paint-chip-namer, click here to go to CIL’s Facebook page and enter. Here are some names I came up with just for the heck of it…