Talk:yellow snow

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yellow snow

Definition is: Snow being yellow due to urine. --Three littlish birds (talk) 18:18, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Weak keep A lot of uses don't make clear why the snow is yellow. The fact that it implies urine is required knowledge to understand the sentence:

"If you insist on using toilet paper, burn it as best you can before you bury it. Bury yellow snow, also."

"Actually, there are some good reasons why dogs aren't allowed at most huts, water supply being one of them (you don't want to be melting yellow snow!)."

"Detectives in Elko, Nev., did a DNA test on some yellow snow outside a restaurant that had been burglarized." (It looks like Weekly World News really loves this phrase)

"It took us a whole day to build, and we came up against a few risks along the way, children with no building skills, dogs with yellow snow making capabilities, but we battled on."

not to mention the ubiquitous "Don't eat yellow snow" (which, to be fair, is not itself a citation of the phrase). Smurrayinchester (talk) 18:58, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Keep. Requires prior knowledge as to why the snow is yellow. Cited above also.--Dmol (talk) 19:10, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

• Keep per the "fried egg"/"light bulb joke" test. Perhaps reword the definition to "snow which has been urinated upon (and which is therefore yellow)" or such, making the fact that it was been urinated upon primary. "Yellow" does not usually have the sense "having been urinated upon": a "yellow bedsheet" is generally a bedsheet that has been dyed that colour, not one that a bed-wetter has wet, but google books:"yellow snow" "green snow" brings up only 150–250 citations of an {{&llit}} sense, whereas (don't) google books:"eat yellow snow" brings up several times as many figurative hits. - -sche (discuss) 20:14, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

I dunno, the fact that yellow snow is (usually, but not necessarily) pissed upon seems to be cultural knowledge, not a lexicographical matter. There are jokes about brown trousers when people are nervous. Delete as it stands. Equinox ◑ 04:04, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Instinctively delete, but the more I think about it, I can't justify deleting it. Mglovesfun (talk) 21:48, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

If the snow turned yellow due to pollution, it would still be called "yellow snow" [1]. It does not take scientific knowledge to know that urine is yellow. Delete. --Hekaheka (talk) 07:32, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

I added a non-SOP definition, as "yellow snow" appears to be the name of a drink. I suggest we move the urine-related part to the etymology section. --Hekaheka (talk) 07:45, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

• Keep per -sche. Don't eat, and don't delete. bd2412 T 19:46, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
• Delete. Ƿidsiþ 07:08, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

kept -- Liliana • 17:17, 22 April 2013 (UTC)