Let's Fire Up Those Neurons!

I thought the "orange" was a tongue in cheek example of adjective order. Because along with being the noun, it is also an adjective that could have been color/shape/material.

 

In hindsight I should have kept my big mouth shut and walked away with an A ... Have to make do with a B-...oh well may be next time!

 

No one saw this early clue? Shocking!

 

Mind sees what it wants to see I was busy thinking garbage drifting in the sea and the scott report (drift of the farmers into the city )all that made me think that she was talking about the plastic drifting in our oceans..going round and round in circleslike how PP thought I meant some fancy adjective order when I posted the orange image. ofcourse now that I know I can always retro-fit sort of like ...oh u do u see a squirrel there on the moon..?

 

Yes, she was indeed talking about the North Pacific Gyre and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch going around in circles. So you were on the right track!

 

The Yellow Ribbon is used for various symbolic purposes all over the world. Yellow + Ribbon go together. So two clue possibilities. Also see the Tony Orlando song linked to earlier. Now, if you step out of your car and the California freeways, you'll notice non-caution yellow ribbons everywhere, I'm sure!

 

Few weeks back I had read about 'Point Nemo' where space major players are dumping their space junks in the ocean. Someone should actually care to think about all these garbages and plastics drifting... Nice that you did!

On my defense I had say, I have never in my life seen the rubber duckies, so no idea they go round in circles! Yeah?

 

I try to avoid such ambiguity, but I didn't even see this one!

 

Also significance of 'The yellow ribbon' in Philippines.

 

I usually write down keywords (in the order of obvious to far-fetched) because I am a scatterbrain.

These were the keywords I started with:

sky fall down, chicken little, fear mongering
yellow ribbon tree, remembrance, waiting, song
rubber tree latex
ducks, mom, swim/float

asoka pillar = leo, champagne, cheers
australia, ocean
cows, trash
pirate, parrot, eye patch

attributes of ???, order


Edit:

Expanding on above:
Googled leo, champage = same image from Great Gatsby
2nd row:
Asoka the Great, Great Gatsby = Great
australia, ocean
cows, trash
pirate, parrot, eye patch

Googled 'great australia trash' -> first hit = Great Pacific garbage patch

Then googled 'Great Pacific garbage patch rubber' -> first hit had reference to rubber duckies.

So had Little Yellow Rubber Duckies and Great Pacific garbage patch.
Realized multiple adjectives were the common factor in 1 and 2, so the third row 1st image meant adjectives.

It wasn't really that easy. I was convinced for a while that the last row was some honor/award like "the order of XYZ" and tried to link it to pollution.