Brown   =  1
Yellow  =  2
Orange  =  3
??????? =  4

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Clarification of Question by hailstorm-ga on 08 Sep 2004 21:28 PDT

Googlenut's answer goes here!

Hi hailstorm!

Well, I?m not a child of the eighties (I?m a little older than that
but I won?t admit to how much older).  However, I do love M&M?s!

This comes from an eighties M&M?s commercial with the following line:

"I get a single with the brown ones, double with the yellow,
orange--triple... but with the green ones, i hit the ball
dooowntown!"?


I found this commercial being discussed on the web at the following links:

InThe80s.com
Favorite Commercials From Television and Radio in the Eighties,
Products Beginning with M
http://www.inthe80s.com/tvcommercials/m.shtml


This one has some screenshots from the commercial:

I-Mockery.com
M&M?s Dirty Little Secret
http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/mm-commercial/default.php


Being an M&M lover, I strongly suspected that it had something to do
with M&M?s.  But to be honest, I didn?t remember the commercial, so I
did a few searches.


The following searches paid off:

eighties brown yellow orange
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=eighties+brown+yellow+orange

m&m's single brown double orange triple yellow
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&safe=off&q=m%26m%27s+single+brown+double+orange+triple+yellow&btnG=Search


As you can see, your hint helped.


Thanks for the fun question!

Googlenut

No tip because you needed the hint, but I'm glad this was found by
someone who knew what I was referring to instead of simple brute force
searching.  I should have waited a few days more to see if you
could've gotten it anyway!  Oh well...

Chartreuse = 4
Turquoise = 5
right?

Brown  = 1
Yellow = 2
Orange = 3
Pink   = 4

This question relates to Pinkfreud. 

As everyone knows.

She was born with Brown hair; bleached it Yellow; converted to Orange;
before becoming ...

Nice try, but incorrect.

Resistor colours codes?

Black    0
Brown    1
Red      2
Orange   3
Yellow   4
Green    5
Blue     6
Violet   7
Gray     8
White    9

Actually, archae0pteryx-ga is correct in a sense that I didn't realize
until now.  Brown has only one vowel, Yellow has two, and Orange has
three.  The next suggestions followed that pattern (four vowels, five
vowels)

However, in the pattern I am referring to, there is a direct, 1 to 1
correlation.  Brown is the only answer that equals 1, Yellow is the
only answer that equals 2, Orange is the only answer that equals 3,
and ??????? (which is not necessarily seven letters long) is the only
answer that equals 4.  Furthermore, there is nothing for five and
above, nor 0 and below.

Blue = 4?

Yellow, orange and blue makes brown.

Oh NO!

There are several colours (Am: colors) that have only one vowel, etc.

Red, Blue, Maroon, etc.

I still think that it's Pink as in Champagne.

If you know the reason for the answer, I suspect you will not need the
use of a question mark.  When you know it...or more accurately, if you
can remember it, you will _know_ it!

Yellow+Red = Orange
2+4=6 6/2=3 Red = 4

Black?

Weren't any of you children in the eighties???

gold = 4?
or
silver = 4?

My dear, I *had* children in the eighties, pretty late by the
standards of my contemporaries.

Thank you for recognizing the aptness of my solution, even though it
wasn't what you had in mind.

Archae0pteryx

Green for a homerun?

Is it black or blue for B Y O B, as in Bring Your Own Beer

Thanks for the 5-stars hailstorm.  No problem about no tip.  $1.50 is
enough to buy a bag of M&M's  :-).

Googlenut

M&Ms?

What on earth are they?

Actually, I preferred the Penny Shares question.

Sorry about that.  I'll be sure to keep your entertainment needs in
mind for my next question.