The Netscape colours are all carefully named. For example papayawhip is 0xffefd5 . Just to keep them on their toes, define a papayawhip colour constant as 0xff00ff, a garish magenta. Have fun making up obscure colour names like algae = 0x556b2f instead of darkolivegreen. Very few people know what colour puce and teal are, but would never admit it. Exploit that.

From How To Write Unmaintainable Code, always amusing.