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Anonymous wrote:The stupid is soooooooooooo deep here.


It’s not “dishwater” blonde.


It’s DITCHWATER blonde.


DITCH. Not “dish”.




FFS, didn’t any of you watch reruns of “I Love Lucy”?


And dishwater is gray. Ditchwater is sorta reddish because of red clay.


Y’all don’t do dishes OR get out much.

Soooooooooo

According to google:

The phrase "middle-aged dishwater blonde" comes from the I Love Lucy episode "Lucy and John Wayne" (Season 5, Episode 1). A newspaper article describes Lucy and Ethel—after they steal John Wayne's footprints—as "a middle-aged dishwater blonde" (Ethel) and a "wild-eyed, frowzy redhead"

www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1599583287083110&vanity=ilovelucyscenes

Frowzy? There's a word not in common use. It needs to make a comeback.

Don't be mean to ditchwater, please. Especially since I'll bet you're been pronouncing Thoreau wrong all these years (turns out it's pronounce "Thorough")

I pegged ditchwater poster to the south, like Georgia, although red clays are found elsewhere (and apparently under most of the Pacific) but she could be from many other parts of the world. And it could be that there's a hyper-local usage.

The summer after high school I was a waitress in my grandparents' small rural town, spent the summer at their house. My boss was a very dumb person. He and the cook had a long argument one slow afternoon because he insisted the machine that played records if you put in a quarter was a jute box. Based on Google, it's a more common mistake to say jute box than to say ditchwater blond. I found exactly one Google reference where someone asked if it was ditchwater or dishwater, and they were actually talking about the color of their guitar. Therefore PP Ditchwater's mistake (in terms of common usage) is unique enough to be praiseworthy IMO, and good for PP for standing up for herself.

My best friend in college was the daughter of scientists. When we did fruit fly experiments in biology we had to go in every 6 hours to knock out our flies with ether to make sure any females were virgins. She honestly thought this was not to control preproductive data but because non virgin fruit flies were considered immoral sluts and it offended her feminist sensibilities.

I think of dishwater blonde in connection with my brothers' hair. They all started out with the lightest possible blonde that gradually darkened to nearly black, but they never really looked like they had brown hair (I'm brunette, my sister was a dark copper). Sort of like they had no color, only went light to dark without any hues joining in.

Anonymous wrote:The stupid is soooooooooooo deep here.


It’s not “dishwater” blonde.


It’s DITCHWATER blonde.


DITCH. Not “dish”.




FFS, didn’t any of you watch reruns of “I Love Lucy”?


And dishwater is gray. Ditchwater is sorta reddish because of red clay.


Y’all don’t do dishes OR get out much.

Clay can be red, or yellow, or white, or dark gray, or bluish.

https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/mo4nmfa

dishwater blond(e) (n.)
(US) a woman, or man, with ash-blonde hair.

1931 [US] C. Martinez ‘Gats in the Hat’ in Gun Molls Sept. 🌐 ‘It was that dish-water blonde!’ cried Carmen suddenly.
1958 [US] E. Gilbert Vice Trap 39: She was a dishwater blonde, with these cow eyes, but a sexy mouth.
1958 [US] W. Motley Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) 304: He was quite a big guy, tall, a dishwater blond.
2012 [US] M. McBride Frank Sinatra in a Blender [ebook] He pointed with an ink pen to a dishwater blonde on the floor.
2012 [Aus] A. Nette ‘Chasing Atlantis’ in Crime Factory: Hard Labour [ebook] A dishwater blonde in her forties, tonight she wore black cotton pants.
2023 [Aus] A. Nette Orphan Road 72: [A] dishwater blonde in khaki camouflage pants and a blue T-shirt.

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter thought the name Penelope was pronounced Pen-uh-lope until sixth grade. She was absolutely shocked when she learned the correct pronunciation while watching an old movie, I think Pippi Longstocking or Dr. Dolittle. I digress. The point is, being wrong about something doesn't make it a thing. Pen-uh-lope is not a thing.
Dishwater is a thing
Ditchwater is not a thing

Me too!! For years that's how I pronounced Penelope. Like cantaloupe.

I texted daughter to let her know their were others of her kind 😂

Anonymous wrote:It’s hard to find celebrity examples of dishwater blonde, because we all get highlights because dishwater blonde isn’t pretty. On me it is basically the color of gun metal. It’s darker than a really light brown, but still blonde. Darker in winter and can lighten up quite a bit in summer; my dad had dishwater blonde hair that could get almost platinum in the summer sun if he was sailing a lot.

Dishwater blond is Gwyneth Paltrow in Sliding Doors, the character version that did not dye her hair and cut it short.

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Anonymous wrote:We always called it mop water or mousy blonde

I thought mousy was warm undertones, like blonde and brown mixed. Whereas dishwater is cool undertones, blonde and gray.

Mousy means messy, not a color. Unkempt hair in need of taming.

This is incorrect. A simple google result gives:

Mousy is a drab, pale, or dull light brown/greyish hair color. It is commonly used to describe a neutral, non-descript shade that resembles a mouse's fur.

Color Profile: It is often described as a light, slightly cool-toned brown or a "dirty blonde".

Nobody with shiny healthy brown hair ever gets called mousy.

If it's light brownish - it can absolutely be called mousy brown.

Only if it’s messy, undone, and dirty looking.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We always called it mop water or mousy blonde

I thought mousy was warm undertones, like blonde and brown mixed. Whereas dishwater is cool undertones, blonde and gray.

Mousy means messy, not a color. Unkempt hair in need of taming.

This is incorrect. A simple google result gives:

Mousy is a drab, pale, or dull light brown/greyish hair color. It is commonly used to describe a neutral, non-descript shade that resembles a mouse's fur.

Color Profile: It is often described as a light, slightly cool-toned brown or a "dirty blonde".

Nobody with shiny healthy brown hair ever gets called mousy.

If it's light brownish - it can absolutely be called mousy brown.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We always called it mop water or mousy blonde

I thought mousy was warm undertones, like blonde and brown mixed. Whereas dishwater is cool undertones, blonde and gray.

Mousy means messy, not a color. Unkempt hair in need of taming.

DP. It can, but mousy blonde/brown is also a hair color descriptor.

Anonymous wrote:The stupid is soooooooooooo deep here.


It’s not “dishwater” blonde.


It’s DITCHWATER blonde.


DITCH. Not “dish”.




FFS, didn’t any of you watch reruns of “I Love Lucy”?


And dishwater is gray. Ditchwater is sorta reddish because of red clay.


Y’all don’t do dishes OR get out much.

Soooooooooo

According to google:

The phrase "middle-aged dishwater blonde" comes from the I Love Lucy episode "Lucy and John Wayne" (Season 5, Episode 1). A newspaper article describes Lucy and Ethel—after they steal John Wayne's footprints—as "a middle-aged dishwater blonde" (Ethel) and a "wild-eyed, frowzy redhead"

www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1599583287083110&vanity=ilovelucyscenes

Anonymous wrote:My daughter thought the name Penelope was pronounced Pen-uh-lope until sixth grade. She was absolutely shocked when she learned the correct pronunciation while watching an old movie, I think Pippi Longstocking or Dr. Dolittle. I digress. The point is, being wrong about something doesn't make it a thing. Pen-uh-lope is not a thing.
Dishwater is a thing
Ditchwater is not a thing

Me too!! For years that's how I pronounced Penelope. Like cantaloupe.

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Anonymous wrote:This is hilarious.

I have dishwater blonde hair. That’s what I have called it my whole life. Dirty blonde is the same thing. Ditchwater is not a thing.

lol.

It’s just very dark blonde hair. In the summer it gets much lighter from the sun. In the winter in a dark room it looks darker than some browns. When I was a small child it was platinum blonde. It was quite dark by the time I was 8 or 9.

But ditchwater IS, in fact, “a thing” - and we know this because someone on this very board uses it and presumably her circle of real life friends/family/acquaintances uses it as well (otherwise she would have been “corrected” before now).

The fact that YOU have never heard of it doesn’t make it not “a thing”, just as the fact that some of us have never heard of “dishwater blonde” doesn’t mean it’s not “a thing”, right?

You can’t have it both ways. Sorry.

NP. The lack of any online evidence of people using "ditchwater blonde" indicates that it's not a thing. I can only find a few mentions of it online, and it's always people asking "Is it dishwater or ditchwater" because they've heard the phrase but are unsure what they are hearing. Meanwhile, you can find millions of references to dishwater blonde, everywhere from beauty magazines to literary references.

It's really obvious the PP had just misheard the phrase "dishwater blonde" (or maybe her mom or some other person had misheard it), convinced herself it was ditchwater, and then proudly ridiculed everyone on the thread for saying it wrong. But if she'd just bothered to google it one time, she would have been corrected and realized she'd been saying/hearing it wrong the whole time.

The insistence on doubling down on this is nuts. It's okay to get words wrong sometimes. My brother thought the word misled was pronounced like miser for decades before he realized his mistake. It's funny! But he doesn't go around insisting that everyone else is wrong and that his imagined/made up pronunciation is actually the correct one, because he doesn't have a personality disorder.

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I used to think the word vapid was pronounced "VAY-pid." This was up until relatively recently.

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It’s not “dishwater” blonde.

It’s DITCHWATER blonde.

DITCH. Not “dish”.

We will all wait while you enter the search term "dishwater" and see what words are suggested as adjunct to it, and then "ditchwater" and do the same. Report back.

They already made a fake search engine result. I suspect they have just crawled under their porch to die at this point.

Or into a ditch.

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Anonymous wrote:
It’s not “dishwater” blonde.

It’s DITCHWATER blonde.

DITCH. Not “dish”.

We will all wait while you enter the search term "dishwater" and see what words are suggested as adjunct to it, and then "ditchwater" and do the same. Report back.

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I just typed in "ditchwater hair color" and every single result had changed it to "dishwater hair color." Why can't the PP just admit she's been saying it wrong all these years?

Ditchwater - album of the year:

https://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/574131-ditchwater-going-forward-looking-back.php