A little background on this one first...
Back in the 80s I worked in a place that had an eight pen plotter, the kind that used what was essentially a drafting pen. If we wanted to do color plots (which we did often) we had to clean out the pens and fill them with the various inks.

One thing I noticed was that the blue ink stained my fingers terribly. Red, yellow, green, even black washed right off- but the blue stayed no matter how I scrubbed, making my fingers look cold.

One day I was doing this task and had filled all of the pens without spilling ink, and was quite pleased with myself. The final one was the blue pen- and, of course, an air bubble caused it to splatter all over my left hand. I cursed and cleaned up the mess. Murphy's law, of course- if it was going to happen, it had to be the blue pen.

So in my best Harry Connick Jr. voice I sang:

It had to be blue
It had to be blue
I monkeyed around
got 'em all down
except for the blue.

I thought I was through
except for the blue
but then it did drip
on my fingertips
What could I do?

Some colors I've seen
like yellow and green
don't make a mess
causing distress
quite like the blue.

But nothing else splattered or spilled
with all these pend I had to fill
it had to be blue
miserable blue
it had to be blue...
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Mon 6 Oct 2008, 14:53, Reply)