When SweetiePalm and I were married I showed her all the sights of the small town I had grown up in. When we went by granddad's place I was surprised to see it was painted a pale pink. I asked my dad about that and he started laughing.
It seems the new owners took the historic places registry seriously and had searched very carefully to find a spot with many layers of paint and sent a chip off to be analyzed to see what the oldest color was. The analysts sent back a color swatch with a pale pink.
What they didn't know was that the house had always been painted white. The pale pink they found was a byproduct of using blowtorches to remove the old lead based paint.
My dad never did tell them the truth. I think the new color actually looked good on the old house.
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Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)