Keith was talking about country colours again recently - he brought up the colour of Greece. He thought it was grey.
Of course he's most heard proclaiming that Israel is brown.
I thought I'd do some research and see what I found:
I went to Google earth and took a screenshot of Israel, then cut out round the border to get just the country, setting the background to white:
I then went here and uploaded the image to get the average colour (making sure it's set to ignore background colour):
Whats Its Color: Find the complementary and primary color of any image
Turns out Israel's colour is #9d9781:
Which is sort of grey yellowy. Sand in fact. Given that Keith might well not be a super-see-er, I think that's close enough to Brown to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Anyway, if anyone's up for doing the same for Greece and the US then go ahead. I think I'd better get back to work..
xoxo