And from earlier this week....

[conuly]

We were sitting around playing I Spy. Evangeline, on her turn, went with "I spy something WHITE", which turned out to be a mirror.

Ana: NO! A mirror isn't white!
Evangeline: Yes it IS!
Ana: NO IT IS NOT!
Evangeline: YES IT IS TOO!
Ana: A mirror is ALL colors!
Evangeline: IT IS WHITE!
Both of them: TELL HER!
Me: Uh... hey, so, I'm going on a trip and I'm bringing an apple! Ana, you're next!

But this leaves me with the lingering, unanswered question...

What the heck kinda color IS a mirror, anyway?

Comments

[steorra]

The colour of whatever's reflected in it? Which I suppose is close to Ana's answer.

But in some ways, white actually isn't a bad answer either - non-luminous white objects are white because they reflect all colours of visible light in roughly equal proportions. Normal mirrors also reflect all colours of visible light in roughly equal proportions - they just do it in a much more organized way, rather than scattering and blending them all about.

I can imagine someone saying silver, too.