As for having the town in a... dither,...
Excuse me for staring, but aren't you the young lady that had Ashley in a dither?
I didn't so much dither as wander around a little pondering my options.
If you want to reduce the size of a graphic by specifying a palette, it is much better to use an "adaptive palette" and trust the computer to dither the colors in the best possible way.
Most women would be in a dither trying to get everything just right for their wedding.
The three loops together cycle through the 216 colors that will not dither in a web browser.
When a browser would see a color that it was not able to show clearly, it would "dither" the two closest colors it could find.
You do n't dither about whether he should go or he should stay.