I think that this is good to clean it a bit anyway.
Did you have a look at the other package too?
On Oct 24, 2010, at 7:34 PM, Johan Fabry wrote:

> 
> Yes there are some fun names in there: ice, yelowish, midnight, barney. Also 
> some very 'human-excreta-related' ones: puke, vomit, poo, booger,  ... But I 
> chose not to pass a watch-out-for-the-children filter. (What would I do with 
> Barney for example ? :-P )
> 
> On 24 Oct 2010, at 03:46, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
> 
>> ok I read the code :)
>> 
>> I like 'swamp'
>> 
>> Stef
>> 
>> On Oct 23, 2010, at 11:30 PM, Johan Fabry wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> in the work of AspectMaps I was a bit let down by the named colors Pharo 
>>> provides (Color red et cetera). Now I am happy to say that thanks to the 
>>> XKCD color survey I was able to improve on this. I can now use 261 named 
>>> colors thanks to a XKCDColor class, and I'd like to share the code, ideally 
>>> to be included into Pharo. The code is available in bugreport 
>>> http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=3148 
>>> 
>>> Here is the class comment fo XKCDColor:
>>> 
>>> ---snip---
>>> A color named according to the XKCD color survey, as published in 
>>> http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/ ("Over five million 
>>> colors were named across 222,500 user sessions.")
>>> 
>>> Of the full table of 954 colors that is published only those were selected 
>>> that did not have a space in their name, ignoring e.g. electric lime, nasty 
>>> green, macaroni and cheese, pinkish tan, but also light light blue, strong 
>>> blue. This results in a table of 261 named colors, but with duplicates such 
>>> as ochre and ocre. These were left in since as they are common misspellings 
>>> it is more convenient for the user.
>>> 
>>> To instantiate: XCDColor named: aString where aString is one of the 261 
>>> named colors. If the name is not known, the color red is instantiated. 
>>> Instances of XKCDColor know their XKCD color name, returned by the name 
>>> accessor.
>>> 
>>> Thanks to Randall Monroe of http://xkcd.com for providing the data.
>>> ---snip---
>>> 
>>> And here is a picture of all the colors (Generated with Mondrian :-) )
>>> 
>>> <Colors.png>
>>> 
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