Skin tone

To paint, print, or manufacture something that is the same colour as Mario, specify PANTONE 1375 UP.

(contributed by dalinian61)

Lego UK cannot keep up with the demand for their new Lego Mario range. The biggest hold-up is that they've bled dry the world dye industry's stockpile of PANTONE 1375 UP for thermosetting plastic, from which Mario-coloured Lego bricks are made. The dye can only be made up from the crushed wing casings of the Nemognatha orange blister beetle. Speaking on behalf of tree-hugging-hippy-pressure-group Compassion in World Farming, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall ranted, "The hyperinflation in the price of orange blister beetle wing casing futures in stock exchanges from Tokyo to New York has sucked millions of unregulated back street sweat shop battery beetle farms into the global marketplace, and literally BILLIONS of poor defenseless innocent cuddlesome little insects are being chewed up and spat out, all to meet the manufactured 'needs' of British brats for Lego Marios. If this is the cost of globalisation, then I say it's too high a price to pay!"

(contributed by dalinian61)

Monet painted Mario but the paint dried orange.

(contributed by Whispers)

As it as was supposed to do silly – specifically PANTONE 1375 UP – being as how he's working alongside Édouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, Willard Metcalf, and Laura Muntz Lyall in the Warrington Impressionist Nail Bar and Fake Tan Salon.

(contributed by dalinian61)

Comasec are rebranding their protective handware range as Mariogold gloves, and changing their colour to PANTONE 1375 UP. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is on red alert to prevent a repeat of the Lego Mario fiacso.

(contributed by dalinian61)

In every 17th generation of the western Pacific Ocean's orange skunk clownfish, Amphiprion sandaracinos, the females display an anomalous white pigmented zone on their left flank, the outline of which forms an astonishingly accurate silhouette of Mario's head in left profile. The International Prize for Biology awaits the first ichthyologist who can solve this riddle. Some believe this discovery motivated Mario's ronsealling himself to a constant PANTONE 1375 UP pigment, having a skunk's anal scent glands grafted on to the back of his neck, and his acting like a creepy clown all the freaking time.

(contributed by dalinian61)