" You painted it pink?' Price asked with a grin.
'That’s lavender, you colour-blind eejit,' I said.
McCallister saw that Price clearly hadn’t got the message yet. 'Hey lads, you know why Price nearly failed the police entrance exam? He thought a polygon was a dead parrot.'
The lads chuckled dutifully and somebody punched Price on the shoulder. "

― Adrian McKinty , The Cold Cold Ground (Detective Sean Duffy #1)