Mike Meyer wrote: > This is a well-known phenomenon, having picked up the name "bikeshed" > something like 40 years ago. Google for "bikeshed color".
My favourite "bikeshed" story: A colleague just joined his local Primary School council. On the agenda for his first meeting was that the shelter shed needed painting. There were groans all around and someone said with a loud sigh, "I suppose we'll have to get the colour consultants back." -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
