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Yellow

Yellow is for the banana peel, so commonly used in physical comedy, giving us a multitude of guffaws as it causes people to fall.

Yellow is for the egg yolk staring back at me, its cholesterol daring me to consume it.

Yellow is for the midday sun, providing warmth and energy to some, sunburn and heat exhaustion to others.

Yellow is for Bert, whose bottle cap collection to which I can so easily relate.

Yellow is for the AOL running man and the Yahoo smiling face, providing so many of us the ability to contact others.

Yellow is for the golden arches of McDonalds, which made the prefix “Mc” part of the American culture, along with “Super Size Me”.

Yellow is for the first earned belt in taekwondo, saying that you are capable of punching and kicking on cue.

Yellow is for Debbie’s SUV , her enemy, as sung to us in Bowling for Soup’s “1985”.

Yellow is for the Play-Dough canister, which does its best to contain the now-artificial scent of the substance within it.

Yellow is for Spongebob, who is so very funny.

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