The thought for the day...

Don't think too hard about this. Ask yourself...in the classic, Sheb Wooley song, "The Flying Purple People Eater," is it the monster, or the people that he eats, that are purple? Is he a one eyed, one horned, flying, purple, people eater...or a one eyed, one horned, flying, purple people eater? The coma after the word purple changes the whole meaning of the sentence. For that matter, he could be a one eyed, one horned, flying purple people eater. As it turns out, according to the song, its the people that are purple, but whether they fly is still up in the air. Does that mean that the People Eater is purple? We just don't know, he could be purple, he could be plaid. What about the narrator of the story? We have to assume that he is purple, after all he begs the Purple People Eater not to eat him, and if he (actually I'm just assuming that the narrator is a male, because the song is sung by a man --it's getting deep) had a reasonable expectation that he was going to be eaten, and since the People Eater says that he eats purple people, we must conclude that the narrator of the story is, therefore, purple. Hmmm...