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It's petrel, not petrol, when talking about the colour...

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MirandaGoshawk · 17/10/2013 16:10

It's spelt wrongly in all the bloody clothes catalogues. Have they not noticed that petrol, if you spill a drop a fiver's worth is clear?

A petrel, OTOH, is a bird. A blue one. Petrel blue. Can we start a campaign?

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TheWomanTheyCallJayne · 20/10/2013 19:19

Patrol blue
Don't you just love typos/autocorrect

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ohmymimi · 20/10/2013 19:22

I've either invented a new colour and itrm of clothing or Muphry is trolling again.

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ohmymimi · 20/10/2013 19:23

Muffry is stalking me - HELP.

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ohmymimi · 20/10/2013 19:25

Jayne - love is not the word that comes to mind.

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BananasInNegligees · 20/10/2013 22:11

Patrol blue could be a colour.
Better than Petrel blue anyhow

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CatWithKittens · 21/10/2013 09:50

Could the answer to all this be that there are in fact two colours and everybody is right, except in saying that they alone are right? By the way there could very well be a Patrol Blue - from the old Army uniform dress colour of very dark navy blue.

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gobbin · 10/11/2013 15:45

Showing my age now, but anyone over 40 not remember the Esso ad in the 70s that went 'Bum bum bum bum....Esso blue'.

My dad always said that it was because petrol has a blueish tinge to it.