Wordnerd, your age is showing!

Ancient Asa with the Itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dotted brain

*singing*
. . . that she wore for the first time today . . .

Asa, I imagine most have heard that song, regardless of their age.

However, I can't imagine anyone thinking the bikini itself is yellow, but I see that 4 did. Those of you who did, what color did you imagine the polka dots?

I imagined a white colored bikini with yellow polka dots.

For what it's worth, that song is still around, and doesn't really show anyones age.

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For what it's worth, that song is still around, and doesn't really show anyones age.

Agreed - even youngsters like me . . . umm . . . I know it!

Blue.

Blue polka dots, only they weren't doing the polka. I imagined them doing the rumba on her rump as she walked.

a yellow polka-dot bikini

Notice how it's tough to say "a polka-dot yellow bikini". Why is that? How about "a yellow bikini with polka-dots"? It would be nice if the "rules" allowed for a comma between the color-word and the "dots" ...

My polka dots are black . I don't know why I think of the bikini as yellow; I just always have, even though I know it's ambiguous.

Thinking about it, it's possible I picture it this way because polka dots aren't usually that big, so the majority of the bikini surface area is taken up by the non-dotted part. In my brain, it's therefore easier to fill the larger surface area with the given colour and see the polka dots as black (which feels to me to be the most common 'colour' for dots when the background is relatively light). Or something.

I have a similar question to Kalleh's: for those of you who imagines the dots as yellow, what colour is the rest of the bikini?

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Blue.

The thing is I know exactly why. Years ago there used to be a TV program where film makers made new videos to songs that were too old to have had videos in the first place. Can't remember the name of the program but I can remember that for this song they were blue bikinis with yellow dots.

There was a Scopitone of Yellow-polka dot bikini made in the '60s. I think the polka dots were blue, but it was shot in Eastmancolor and the copies I've seen are now somewhat yellowed.

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Originally posted by zmjezhd:


Notice how it's tough to say "a polka-dot yellow bikini". Why is that? How about "a yellow bikini with polka-dots"?

How about "a polka-dotted yellow bikini?" That's a bit easier to say, and unambiguous, but not so easy to work into a song - unless she was eating tahini.

Or you could be unamiguous by saying yellow, polka-dot bikini, with a comma after the 'yellow'.

I wonder why we all (except for Bob, who explained his choice) think of blue. But, Cat, to answer your question, I think of a blue bikini with yellow polka dots. However, if I change it to yellow polka dots, then I envision a white bikini.

I have always envisioned a yellow bikini with black dots.. like Cat! Have no idea why...

I wonder why we all (except for Bob, who explained his choice) think of blue.

The bikini has yellow dots on it. I am unsure what its color is. Blue and gold would be nice, but it is not specified in the sentence. Can one say "a polka-dot bikini"? without the color word qualifying.

Sorry, I'm with Cat on this one, I thought yellow bikini but with blue polka dots for some reason, maybe I just like lasses in yellow bikinis!

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Can one say "a polka-dot bikini"? without the color word qualifying.

Of course, z. I was the one who brought up the color question because I just wondered, that's all.

"Lasses," huh? How cute is that!

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Originally posted by Erik Johansen:
maybe I just like lasses in yellow bikinis!

I'm too old, or some may think past it, to say this, but:
I take the contrary view.

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I'm too old, or some may think past it, to say this, but:
I take the contrary view.

I agree. I far prefer them out of their bikinis as well.

Yup, I'm afraid I haven't quite qualified for dirty old man status yet, being merely an innocent youth (of 44!)- can I settle for dirty middle aged man? And yes, you're right I do prefer them minus bikinis too!

I just asked, and my husband envisions a white bikini with yellow polka-dots.

Just goes ta show . . . ya think ya know what you're singing about, and everyone else is singing about summat diff'rent.