O my Luve's like a red,red rose, my schoolbus canary yellow?

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O my Luve's like a red,red rose, my schoolbus canary yellow?

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Feb 20, 2013:
  • O my Luve's like a red, red rose,
    me schoolbus tis canary yellow?!
why, oh why, is that rose red and that bus yellow? (and with apologies to Robert Burns for scalping his poem...)
In today's NY Times: Why the School Bus Never Comes in Red or Green
the article begins:
  • A question came to mind as school bus drivers prepared to start their engines on Wednesday on 7,700 public-school routes in New York City and end their monthlong strike: Why are most school buses yellow? Why not some other color? Why not burnt sienna, like a crayon? Why not light-medium robin's egg blue, like a jewelry box? Why not magma orange, like a Lamborghini?
    The answer is Frank W. Cyr, a professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, who became known as the "father of the yellow school bus" for research he led in the 1930s.
    In the spring of 1939, Cyr called together educators, school bus manufacturers and paint experts for a Conference on School Transportation that approved the nation's first school bus safety standards - 42 pages covering everything from axles, batteries and emergency brakes to the inside height of the passenger compartment to, yes, the color that the world saw outside. The standards were published in a booklet with a yellow cover: the yellow was the color the group had chosen.
The final color selected in 1939 was 'national school bus chrome,'". The most recent color approved in 2010, calls the color "national school bus yellow"
So now you know why the School Bus is yellow!


Oh and here's the rest of the Burn's poem:
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  • A Red, Red Rose
    O my Luve's like a red, red rose
    That's newly sprung in June;
    O my Luve's like the melodie
    That's sweetly play'd in tune.

    As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
    So deep in luve am I:
    And I will luve thee still, my dear,
    Till a' the seas gang dry:

    Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear,
    And the rocks melt wi' the sun:
    I will luve thee still, my dear,
    While the sands o' life shall run.

    And fare thee well, my only Luve
    And fare thee well, a while!
    And I will come again, my Luve,
    Tho' it were ten thousand mile.
    Robert Burns
Feb 2023: also found another link
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Re: O my Luve's like a red,red rose, my schoolbus canary yellow?

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A recent post on another forum also explained see the link for information!
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