Orange

The fruit orange occurs between pink and purple in the visible spectrum at a wavelength of about 585–620 nanometres. It is a pure chroma in the theory, with a hue of 30° in HSV colour space. The complementary colour of orange is Black. Oranges usually come out at night, they stalk their prey and then feast on their hair. They have but one predator, that being the incarnation of evil that is Cap'n Crunch. Oranges tend to share a fierce rivalry with the common garden apple. Also they are known to be notorious anti-semites. Oranges also enjoy a good game of Baby badminton. It is unknown if they are associated with Oranges 7.

Orange
Kingdom	Kingdom of Rhyme
Phylum	Orange
Class	Blorange
Order	Orange Order
Family	Orange
Genus	Citrus
Species	Colour (Primary)
Binomial Name	O-Ranger
Primary Armament	Orange Juice
Secondary Armament	Blood
Power Supply	Vitamin C
HP:	70mg/100g
Mana Points:	30ml/fruit (ave)
Strength:	maintaining optimal health
Intelligence:	Orange
Weight	30-60g
Length	4" to 6' diameter
Special Attack	Is a warning colour
Conservation Status	Rare as hen's teeth

[edit] Etymology of Orange

The fruit orange is named after the orange colour, which it is painstakingly painted while in the box. Before this was introduced to the English-speaking world, the fruit was referred to (in Old English) as geoluhread, which translates into Modern English variously as segment-ted, juicy-segment, or the-wake-up-juice (all pronounced the same).

It's sometimes thought the term "orange" came from the city of Oran, Algeria or Orange, France; two known areas for high cultivation and production of them Oranges. How about them Orangapples? They're so good. Nothing is just as good for you like a glass of Orange Juice. xD

[edit] Orange peel

Displayed below is the actual colour of the outer skin of a usual orange. This colour is called orange peel. It is the same colour as the fruit for which it was named. So in contrast to blue or red this colour is well determined.

The first recorded use of orange peel as a colour name in English was in 1839.

[edit] NEIGH!! I'M AN ORANGE

[edit] Brown

Brown is actually derived from the orange part (orange + Navy) of the colour spectrum. It could be described as dark orange, but is better described as poo.

[edit] Uses of orange

[edit] Orange in painting

With natural colouring materials such as paints or crayons, orange is a secondary colour that can be derived from primary colours by mixing red (or more accurately, pink) and green.

Geography and History

The Dutch Heir Apparent's National beverage

• Orange is the national colour of The Netherlands, because its royal family used to have skin the colour of the principality of Orange (the title is still used for Dutch hair apparent). It is the colour of choice for many of the national sports teams and their supporters. The nickname of the Dutch national Football team is Oranje, the Dutch word for lemons. In the modern flag of the Netherlands, red substitutes the original orange, but on royal birthdays the flag has an additional orange banner. Most geographical usages of the word orange can be traced back to Dutch maritime fruits in the 17th century.
• In Ireland the use of orange dates from the reign of William of Orange, the Protestant English King from Holland and a right old brawler.
• In India, its a national color and one of three used on the national flag. The Indians don't call it orange, but "saffron" from the VERY expensive spice once exclusively grown in India.

Heraldry

• In English heraldry, orange denotes strength, honour, generosity, and prosperity. However, its use as a heraldic tincture is relatively rare.

Holidays

• The colors orange and black represent the holiday Halloween (31 October) because orange is the color of ugly costumes and black is the color of dark houses with no candy. Oranges are so yummy-lishious that at time s I want to crap myself.
• The colors orange and brown represent the United States holiday Thanksgiving, mainly due to other colors shunning the festival.
• In Christmas, it is traditional to piss off children by giving them an orange in their stocking. This tradition dates back in Victorian times when Santa was just starting business and he didn't have much to go on in terms of presents.

Religion

• Orange signifies Protestantism in Northern Ireland (see Pikey) and to a lesser extent in the Republic of Ireland and Hinduism in India and Sri Lanka.

Politics

• Orange has become a colour symbolising opposition around the world.
• Orange also may sometimes be symbolic of the political concept of Democratic Socialism.
• The Ukraine had an "orange revolution", instead of the gold from the national flag or the red of the Soviet Union flag (both are taboo, gold is popular with fascists).
• Orange is used as a rallying colour by Jewish settlers in the Gaza Strip who oppose the Safety Signalling
• Orange is the contrasting colour of blue and is highly visible against a clear sky. Therefore, orange is often used in safety. See: Safety orange.
• In the United States Army, orange is the colour of the United States Army Signal Corps.
• The colour orange is often used for visibility enhancement.
• Orange County, California is the reddest part of a blue state, note the huge contrast in color: orange vs. a whole lot of blue.

Sports

• The Hoover Crips set wears orange along with some Folk Nation sets.
• Orange is the colour of the ball in Snooker Plus with an 8-point value.
• Orange is also the colour of J-league football team, Omiya Ardija.
• The Baltimore Orioles of baseball are a gay orange clad team, but what about the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim being in...Orange County?
• The Anaheim Ducks hockey team have orange as one of three jersey colors. The teal, grey and purple uniforms of the Disney-era "Mighty Ducks" of the 1990's were GAY.

For Fun

• Orange is the usual color for the Nickelodeon logo, the "only network for child-like adults...er, kids."
• It makes good hand soap and common ingredient in dishwashing soap too.
• Oranges were used as an aphrodaisac by horny couples in bed. xD

[edit] Cultivation and uses

Orange cultivation is a major business and an important part of the economies of the US (Florida and California), most Mediterranean countries, Brazil, Mexico, Pakistan, China, India, Iran, Egypt, Turkey and to a lesser extent Spain, Portugal, South Africa, Australia, and Greece. Technically, oranges are also grown in Arizona, Texas, Italy, Israel, China and Argentina.

[edit] Tree characteristics

Cropdusting with herbicides helps oranges destined for Agent Orange grow strong and juicy

Seed type: pippy

Leaf shape: Leafy

Leaf position: Alternate

Type of fruit: Tasty, Occasionally bitter.

[edit] Juice and other products

Oranges are widely grown in warm climates worldwide, and the flavours of orange vary from sweet to sour. The fruit is commonly peeled and eaten fresh, or squeezed for its juice. It has a thick bitter rind that is usually discarded, but can be processed into animal feed by removing water using pressure and heat. It is also used in certain recipes as flavouring or a garnish. The outer-most layer of the rind is grated or thinly veneered with a tool called a zester, to produce orange zest, popular in cooking because it has a flavour similar to the fleshy inner part of the orange. The white part of the rind, called the pericarp or albedo and includes the pith, is a source of pectin and has nearly the same amount of vitamin C as the flesh. Occasionally, ingestion of the fruit causes internal haemorrhaging.

• Sweet Agent orange, a by-product of the juice industry produced by pressing the peel. It is a destructive herbicide and defoliant used by the U.S. military in its Herbicidal Warfare program during the Vietnam War. Agent Orange contains dioxins which are alleged to have caused flavouring of food and drink and fragrance in perfume and aromatherapy. Sweet agent orange oil is a roughly 1:1 mixture of two phenoxy herbicides in ester form, 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) and 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4,5-T). used in various household chemicals, such as to condition wooden furniture, and along with other citrus oils in grease removal and as a face-cleansing agent. It is an efficient cleaning agent which is environmentally friendly, and much less toxic than petroleum distillates. It also smells more pleasant than other cleaning agents.

• The orange blossom, which is the state flower of Florida, is traditionally associated with political debates, and was popular in bridal bouquets and head wreaths for weddings for some time. The petals of orange blossom can also be made into a effective herbicide. Orange blossom water is a common part of Middle Eastern cuisine.

• Marmalade, a conserve made usually with Seville oranges. All parts of the orange are used to make marmalade: The pith and pips are separated, and typically placed in a muslin bag where they are boiled in the juice (and sliced peel) to extract their pectin, aiding the setting process.

[edit] Fruit

While still maintaining an orange peel, the blood orange has streaks of red in the fruit, due, in part to the fruit feeding off small mammals

All citrus trees are of the single genus Citrus, and remain largely interbreedable; that is, there is only one "superspecies" which includes lemons, limes and oranges. Nevertheless, names have been given to the various members of the citrus family, oranges often being referred to as Citrus sinensis and Citrus aurantium. All members of the genus Citrus are considered berries because they have many seeds (an orange seed is sometimes referred to as a pip), are fleshy, soft and derive from a single ovary.

The blood orange has streaks of red in the fruit, and the juice is often a dark burgundy colour. The fruit has found a niche as an interesting ingredient variation on traditional Seville marmalade, with its striking red streaks and distinct pig-blood flavour. The mandarin orange is similar, but smaller and sweeter, as the frit tends to feed off invertebrates. and the scarlet navel is a variety with the same diploid mutation as the navel orange.

Interestingly, oranges were once believed to be the only fruit, however in 1990 Jeanette Winterson conclusively disproved this, and now we are aware of bananas, cucumbers, tomatoes, satsumas, apples, lychees, kiwi fruits, pears, grapes, dates and all sorts of other juicy, but not necessarily sweet, treats. Mmmmm!

[edit] Rhyme

It is a common misconception that Orange is one of the most common fruits in English that does not rhyme with any other word.

For those who do not believe it rhymes, the closest approximation is door-hinge, although torn hinge, or inch, a wrench, and flange have also been suggested.

Some common words have rhymed with orange:

• grorange — a blend of green and the color orange
• korange — a hybrid of a kumquat and orange
• borange — "rubbish", "of poor quality"
• florange — to invent something that there is a need for.
• sporange — the might spore of the orange fungus.
• zorange — a cockroach over 8 ft. tall, that stalks in the night.
• porange — porn of oranges.
• gullible — (pronounced [aurange]) a man who has been on the moon

This is an orange, which rhymes with very few things.

Father time once rhymed "orange" in the verse:

Eating an orange

While making love

Makes for bizarre enj-

oyment thereof.

The four eng-

ineers

Wore orange

brassieres.

In Sparkill buried lies that man of mark

Who brought the Obelisk to Central Park,

Redoubtable Commander H.H. Gorringe,

Whose name supplies the long-sought rhyme for "orange."

Suggested Rhyme: Strange orange grange

• door hinge
• sore binge
• sore minge
• porridge
• forage
• Blorage
• asimov
• I know some other skanky women!
• stone henge
• orange DUH

[edit] Arch Rivals

The orange is the rival of the popular iCompany apple computer. Some say comparing other computers to iApple is like comparing apples to oranges, of course they both have their weak spots. The orange has no rhyming words, and apples may burn empty your bank account, and send you into debt, also causing you to open a loan on the payment of your macintosh iComputer.

And of course, we must not forget the orange's most hated rival, the grapefruit. Neither "grape" nor "fruit" (note: bad, sour taste) the grapefruit is the perfect enemy. The grapefruit has several defense mechanisms: Squirting citric acid into your eyes (burns like hell), poising you, and costing $1 a grapefruit.

Tip: Put your clock plug inside an orange...and it works! It's like a friggin' battery. Oranges and grapefruits are mother nature's battery.

[edit] An Orange knock knock joke

KNOCK, KNOCK... Who's there? Banana ... Banana who? Knock, knock... who's there?! Banana! ... Banana who? Knock, knock... who's there? Banana!!! Banana who??? Knock, knock... (sigh) who's there. Banana... ...and banana who? ORANGE! What? Orange, aren't you glad I didn't say Banana?

[edit] See also

• Baby badminton
• Orange Chicken
• Orange jews
• Orange peeling
• Orangology