"Peter HK" wrote in news:RZ1ng.15080$ap3.4397
@news-server.bigpond.net.au:

As an example, some years ago I read a trial of the different placebo
effects of different coloured pills- white ones didn't have much of an
effect, red and yellow a bit more, pink, candy-striped and other wilder
colours a bit more again, but the best of the lot were the black pills!



I apologize, but I just have to post a story that goes along with this
hypothesis.....

A psychologist was researching the way small children react to colors. In
his research, he used various flavors of life savers getting the children
to match the color to the taste.

He gave the childred red and they quickly identified it as cherry....green,
lime....yellow, lemon and so on.

A stumbling block came when he gave them the beige colored honey life
savers. They couldn't identify the flavor because most of them had never
tasted honey, so he gave them a hint to move the program along.

"It's something Mommy calls Daddy at night.", he told them.

IMMEDIATELY this little girl spit her beige life saver out on the floor and
stuck out her tongue to clear the taste!

"Oooooh, Yuck! It's ASSHOLE!", she yelled puckering up her face.