The Description Class Archetype

"Stop the pigeon! Stop that pigeon now!"
Sheriff of Nottingham, Sherwood Forest, The Adventures of Robin Hood

"Get the cheese to sickbay"
B'Elanna Torres, Starship Voyager

"What did y'all order a dead guy for?"
Jayne Cobb, Firefly

"Excuse me, but I am in the middle of fifteen things, all of them annoying"
Susan Ivanova, Babylon 5

"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened"
Douglas Adams

"That don't impress me much!"
Shania Twain, Come on over

In Peter Coad's 'Modeling in Color' technique, all significant Problem Domain classes belong to one of four class archetypes. One of the four class archetypes is the blue Description archetype. This is used to represent objects that might appear as entries in some sort of catalogue.