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Way back in ’95 I moved from AK to Seattle. At the time, I thought I’d visit my buddy Zeno and his brother Brint in Florida. I had no reason to rush to Seattle so I hung out with them in Jacksonville for 2 weeks. At the end of the visit we took a roadtrip to Tampa and went to Busch Gardens. That was a blast and to this day I’ve never been on a bigger, faster rollercoaster. Definitely a fun place. While there, we decided to get a caricature done of us for no good reason and I brought it home and yippee…we got a stupid picture done.

This last February, Brint came through town and as we were driving around Seattle trying to find the Perfect Beer, that caricature drawing came up. “Where did that thing go? That was a hilarious picture. What a fun trip that was.” A bunch of crap like that.

Not even a week later, another friend called me to say that he was cleaning out his dungeon when he came across this weird drawing of what appeared to be me, Brint and Zeno. Dave had met both of them before, so he would know, and sure enough it was the very caricature that Brint and I had been talking about. Hilarious!

Today I was learning about PHP when I decided that I’d had it and needed to do something to expend mental energy. So I took a photo of the caricature, imported it to Photoshop  and colorized it. I’d gotten a ways into it, when I realized that doing the proper hair color was one thing, but I have no idea what color Z and B’s gorgeously dreamy eyes are…so I texted Zeno.

“What color are Brint’s eyes? Yours are green?”

Mine are blue.  B is hazel.

“Hazel?  You homo, what color are they!?”

His woman says they are blue but he was born with hazel eyes.

“Hazel…Are your sheets mauve and your thong peach?  Idiot…”

So…what the hell do I do with that?  HAZEL???  I’m a guy, I don’t know what the hell color that is, and besides, for most guys doesn’t it come down to the simplest box of crayons?  There are only 8 colors in that one: black, white, blue, red, yellow, orange, violet and green.  That’s it, that’s the whole rainbow! When another guy asks you about your brother’s eyes (THREE men in that equation), you use one of those 8 colors.  Actually, bloodshot would be a perfectly valid answer too, but that’s not the point.  The point is that we don’t do hazel.  And on top of all that!??!  This answer came from a construction worker in Alaska!  Holy crap!

I got so flustered I made B’s eyes blue and Z’s eyes green.  I thought hazel was a shade of blue…what?!  Whatever, it’s all good.  As always, click the image for a larger one.

Special thanks to Zeno’s monobrow for making an appearance. Good on ya, mate!

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