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August 13, 2008 |
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A Purple Pen
FOUND by Melody McClellan
in Spartanburg, South Carolina
I found this business card inside a coffee table drawer in my dorm's lobby. I saw the written side first, then flipped it over. As it turns out, it's from my sister's school!
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
nihilist*
A line drawn by a purple pen often denotes the journey that the plastic surgeon's scalpel will travel.
Egypt is the nilest place I've ever seen.
Many people are so far in denial they might as well be Egyptian.
Purple is my favourite colour; to me a purple pen DOES denote a special feeling. As does a purple tape caddy, a purple necklace, a purple shirt...even a purple Smart ForTwo.
"Many people are so far in denial they might as well be Egyptian"
you got that right! sure glad I'm not like that...
and a purple pen could denote a special feeling, just probably not if you're a nihilist, or a nilest for that matter.
The colour purple denotes a special feeling in me...like a violet.
If I were a crayon, I'd be the colour purple.
This just cracked me up. It reminds me of taking Philosophy 101, and passing sarcastic pseudo-philosophical notes with friends to pass the time.
Yes, well whether it's denote of de purple pen what penned it (ie depenned denote) on fact remains, that defies denile: you can't caprice, which is a staple in Egyptia.
So there
...whether it's denote *OR* de purple pen...
...ONE fact remains...
Sheesh.
@Farmer:
Dat all depenns.
I thoguht this must be a pen-testing doodle pad from the pens section of an art shop.
'...is nothing IN the eyes of a nihilist' not 'compared to', surely? If this means anything at all.
Or perhaps the nihilist has purple eyes.
I never saw a purple cow,
I never hope to see one;
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I'd rather see than be one.
Traditionally, purple was once used to denote Royalty. Perhaps this note was written by the Queen of the Nile...
NO IT WASN'T!
"We want zeh money Lebowski!"
I never saw a purple cow,
I never hope to see one;
but from the milk we're getting now,
there certainly must be one.
Harold's purple crayon! He could draw world's and live and play in them. He also could erase the nihilist or not draw her in the first place. the imagination is a purple place - i think i'll journey there today . . .
I think I'll wear my purple caprice pants today as I journey randomly through life.
A friend wanted "nothing" for his birthday. So I bought him a tin of Tasteless Nihilist Mints from Perpetual Kid. 8D
I agree with Jonathan. This is someone in a craft store trying out a pen or leaving something amusing for the next pen tester to read.
Since I was a kid I've always written the same thing when testing a pen: This pen smells nice.
LOL @ Jonathan! In a small town in (almost southern) CA, there's a building with a mural painted on the side: colorful cows, with the one in the foreground a vivid purple. (yes. Vivid!)
that poem is up there, too, with a second verse:
.." why yes, I wrote the Purple Cow
And I'm so glad I wrote it.
But I can tell you anyhow,
I'll sue you if you quote it!"
I'll have to dig around and see if I can find pictures of it.
Is it mightier than a purple sword?
When I was planning my vacation in Egypt, I asked for the nilest beach house they had available. Sadly, it was far too pricey.
If I were a crayon, I think I'd be cornflower blue.
well, now you can KNOW what color crayon you are! (i'm a quiz freak, and every time i go to that site, i spend at least an hour there)
http://www.blogthings.com/whatcolorcrayonareyo
these are my results:
You Are a Red Crayon
Your world is colored with bright, vivid, wild colors.
You have a deep, complex personality - and you are always expressing something about yourself.
Bold and dominant, you are a natural leader. You have an energy that is intense... and sometimes overwhelming.
Your reaction to everything tends to be strong. You are the master of love-hate relationships.
Your color wheel opposite is green. Green people are way too mellow to understand what drives your energy.
awesome, because red is my favorite color
A Purple pen denotes the .. um.. passion (?) of Prince.. or TAFKAP, whatever.
Hahaha! oh man, you guys are cracking me up!
I give Harold's Purple Crayon credit for the way I look at life. Yes, it can be anything you want it to be! I live in fantasy and I cannot deny it! But who doesn't? Just what is reality, anyway?.. it's whatever you draw with your purple crayon!
Oh my goodness - I took the quiz and I came out as blue!
Clover - I forgot all about that book. It was truly one of my favorites.
My sister had Ed Emberley's Big Purple Drawing Book. We didn't like it because a lot of it was gray and black drawings with just a little purple. I had the Big Red Drawing Book which had these little aliens...feedles...something like that? I don't know, they were cute though. I was a huge fan of Ed Emberley... Truly one of the best books I had as a kid. Now all I buy are stupid statistics books. Today I plan to draw in them with my purple crayon (although my favorite color in the crayola box was sea green) since purple doesn't denote a special feeling and is as random as my statistics seem to be.
Sea Green and Periwinkle
it's genious!! for me, blue pens are only for balancing my checkbook, filling in crosswords, writing a grocery list maybe, and black pens are for writing letters, journal writing, job applications, signature signing, writing checks, but purple now, purple is for everything!!
And if I were a fruit or a veggie, I would want to be a Purple Concord Grape, and or an Eggplant.
Yup...Uh-huh.
Purple crayon, Concord Grape and an Eggplant. These are my goals and or aspirations.
Simple.
purple...purple...purple...purple, that's a funny word.
I love pens. I am obsessed with office supplies (and i suspect that i'm not the only one around these here parts) Purple pens are good for writing silly notes. When I need to write something neatly, i like a pen with a medium tip. quick notes, like taken during a meeting are best done with a finer tip. And i absolutely love Sharpies.
I am a green crayon! Of course. Duh. What else would clover be??
Here's what it says:
Your world is colored in harmonious, peaceful, natural colors.
While some may associate green with money, you are one of the least materialistic people around.
Comfort is important to you. You like to feel as relaxed as possible - and you try to make others feel at ease.
You're very happy with who you are, and it certainly shows!
Your color wheel opposite is red. Every time you feel grounded, a red person does their best to shake you.
@darcy in my chair, thanks for the quiz! It's awesome, because green is my favorite color! Contrary to what it says on your color description though, I have harmonious relationships with red crayons too! (Because wouldn't it be a dull world if everyone was in the same section of the crayon box.)
@Terrie.. hahahaha! purple purple purple purple purple purple.. hahha!
I think today is the perfect day for my first comment.
@Holly - purple is my favorite color too.
Apparently, our writer doesn't like purple pens or proper punctuation.
How fitting for today: I am a purple crayon:
Your world is colored in dreamy, divine, and classy colors.
You hold yourself to a sky high standard, and you are always graceful.
People envy, idolize, and copy you without realizing it. You are an icon for those who know you.
And while it is hard to be a perfectionist, rest assured it's paying off!
Your color wheel opposite is yellow. While yellow people may be wise, they lack the manners and class needed to impress you.
Silly yellows!
@Holly: I've always thought that the Concord Grape was the most majestic fruit in existence.
Ooooohhhhh Goooooddd....the tongue-twister from yesterday's pig's feet is back, only now it's going: "Purple pickled pig parts, Purple pickled pig parts, purple pickled pig parts..."
Somebody pting the record player, quick! With a hammer, if you've got one!
i can't do the quiz. apparently i'm supposed to be working, and that's not work related.
Hilariously enough I took the quiz and got Purple! How fitting!
Although the description itself is not quite as fitting, I am far from a perfectionist! Dreamy and divine maybe...graceful? Definitely not!
Your world is colored in dreamy, divine, and classy colors.
You hold yourself to a sky high standard, and you are always graceful.
People envy, idolize, and copy you without realizing it. You are an icon for those who know you.
And while it is hard to be a perfectionist, rest assured it's paying off!
Your color wheel opposite is yellow. While yellow people may be wise, they lack the manners and class needed to impress you.
One lonely, gloomy, windswept eve
A mournful sound did I perceive.
I cast my eyes beyond the pane
And to my horror down the lane
Came a sight; I froze inside
A spectral cow with purple hide.
Argg....I'm a yellow crayon? The desription kind of fits but I'm not a big fan of yellow at all! Why me?!?
*description* (I know all you spelling nazi's will be after me if I don't correct myself)
I, too, am a purple crayon.
Graceful in spirit, I presume. I'm prone to running into furniture. And doors. And walls.
Actually, Foundian typos are usually excused and ignored unless they have profound impact on the meaning of a sentence. Just let minor typos be and carry on with life.
well said, spelling nazi only out to get the original writers. I don't think we're as harsh or judgenmental as we used to be. Or i could be in denile.
'Purple pickled pig parts'
I'm hearing it too - but it's in the voice of the cartoon pig from a British children's cartoon whose name I can't quite remember.
My Dad refused to use blue pens because he felt that ink was originally intended to be black.
It seemed logical when I was 8 - but now - not so much.
I can't help but wonder if this is a quote. I swear I've heard it before somewhere. Either way it's a good find!
My crayon color is RED! My favorite color! Woohoo!
...he was a one eyed one horned flying purple pickled pig part people eater...
@Clover--I'm a green crayon, too! Although if I had to choose my favorite color, it wouldn't be green. I'd actually pick purple!
The bear is a red crayon apparently.
"Your world is colored w/bright vivid, wild colors. You have a deep, complex personality-and you are always expressing something about yourself. Bold and dominant you are a natural leader. You have an energy that is intense...and sometimes overwhelming.Your reaction to everything tends to be strong. You are the master of love-hate relationships."
Hmmm, well, I have to admit that since that controversy over the purple dinosaur and purple Teletubby I've assumed that everything purple was somehow code for "gay". Is that not right any more? I get so confused over hidden messages and such.
Mmmmmmm I love purple cows!!! So tasty!!
Hah! I remember that, Librarian. People said purple was gay; I called them idiots because, hey, it's a freakin' color. It's like how some people believe your sexual orientation is based on which ear has more piercings.
Somehow it's small things like that, not war and genocide, that make me want to give up on humanity.
PLEASE...ANYONE OUT THEREEEEEEEEEE???????
I would love to take this quiz, but I copy and paste the addy into my browser, and I get *cannot be found?* written in blue?
I need some techy, savvy advice....please and thank-you!
@ PURPLE DRAGON- I, as well!! I'd say 75% of my clothes are different shades of purple, violet, mauve, lilac, etc...been my fave colour for the past 20 years!
Hubby is like, "Um, hun...are you sure you don't need any different coloured clothes for work or lounging?"
I respond, "Nope, uh-huh. I'm fine. However, I do need a pair of black, leather, comfortable *walking on clouds* shoes!"
@ JODABABES- I think the exact thing! Great minds think alike, buddie! I especially love WHELCH'S<-sp?) Concord Grape Jelly w/butter on crumpets, and a cup of Earl Grey Tea. MMMMMMMMMM!!
Homemade Concord Grape Jelly is fantastic, too! My Granny did her canning every year and that was a staple at her home. As children, my sisters' and I would always anticipate her visitations!
Another thing that just popped into mind is, at Granny's place in the wintertime/Christmas, she would warm up the homemade Canadian Maple Syrup, (a local farmer down the road made it from his trees, bottled it, sold it and it was yummy!)and at just the right temperature, all the grandkids would each get a popsicle stick, then Granny and her *kiddies*, following behind her like happy, red-cheeked, frost-bitten elves, would go outside to the backyard patio/deck, where the newly fallen snow had just made a 2 foot drift on top of the railing of the deck. She'd have the saucepan filled with warm, Maple Syrup and as she would start pouring the syrup onto the snow, us kids would hold our sticks and twirl them into all kinds of designs, whilst the snow would harden the syrup onto the popsicle stick, hence making it a Maple lollipop!
Remember...this was the late 60's, early 70's so I'm thinking the snow wasn't as contaminated as it is now.
The memories...all from a *purple crayon* message.
Thanks, JODABABES!
@Holly
just type www.blogthings.com into your browser window and use the search window to find the right quiz. I couldn't get the cut/paste thing to work either.
I was going to post much earlier, but went to blogthings and was having too much fun.
I am yellow. Apparently I don't work well with purple people. They think I lack substance. Darn Purple.
@Holly - I grew up in the 80s and I have very clear memories of making/eating the warm Maple syrup on snow popsicles too - sooooo fabulous!
Someone above (too lazy to search for it) said that their Dad only uses black pens. I do too, I hate blue pens. I never use them if I can possibly help it. Neither does my brother for some reason. Unfortunately when I got married the pen we used to sign our gorgeous calligraphy wedding certificate had a black end and cap on it but when we signed it the ink was blue. So instead of displaying it (it really was beautiful) it sits in a drawer because it looks so ugly with the signatures in blue pen.
I should probably just get over it... *shrugs*
@Drifting in the sky: purple cows are indeed yummy. Grape soda over vanilla ice cream. Delicious!
@Smallbear: did you ever know that there is no word to rhyme with purple? (Or orange or silver?) Heh heh.
"I think it pisses God off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it."
**PURPLE HAZE** is what pisses God off, SHUG!!
THANKS LUCKY!!
@ SADIE- I know! I miss those times...terribly. :o(
WHAT? WHAT!? I like the colour yellow, too, but I thought for sure I'd be purple...ah well. I like what it says at the bottom...purple is my opposite on the colour wheel and purple people think us *yellow* people have no depth.
You Are a Yellow Crayon
Your world is colored with happy, warm, fun colors.
You have a thoughtful and wise way about you. Some people might even consider you a genius.
Charming and eloquent, you are able to get people to do things your way.
While you seem spontaneous and free wheeling, you are calculating to the extreme.
Your color wheel opposite is purple. You both are charismatic leaders, but purple people act like you have no depth.
I am a silver crayon.
Reflective and brilliant, you see things with a slightly altered view from the norm.
You have a deep, complex personality, and express yourself best through written word. You are happiest merely observing from the sidelines, recording all the goings on, and storing information for later use, in whatever instance it becomes necessary.
Woe to the person who crosses you- they won't see it coming, but they will get their due.
Your color wheel opposite is green. Green people are way too mellow to understand what drives your energy.
Chrome, I would have thought that gold was opposite silver on the color wheel.
Funny, immediately when I read this find I thought of Harold and the Purple Crayon. It was great to scroll down and see the comments and that others had related to the same book.
I loved that book and like Clover, it influenced my outlook on life.
It was interesting to hear my kids later tell me that they hated that book. They told me it made them feel weird when they looked at it.
My purple crayon has created a beautiful life..
CHROME- Your colour is silver? WOW! How apropo' hence your username!
@orinoco a while back --
There's a man outside on an old motorbike with a hammer.
Or you could put the record player in the bathtub, as with misbehaving toasters.
i'm sure glad i posted that link! everyone loves it! yay! and Holly, you are TOTALLY a yellow crayon. it's PERFECT for you. and my mom took the quiz, and she was blue, and the results sound exactly like her, hehe.
I love doodling on construction paper with medium point ball point pens. Any colors. The more colors the better. Since the advent of all these colorful GEL pens, though, it's become more difficult to find good quality ball points with fucschia, lime green, purple, and turquoise blue ink... waaa.
Yeah Night I do remember hearing that somewhere.Ha ha, do you remember everything I've ever written here? I thought you were a bird not an elephant!
@ puckhog, that instantly sprang to my mind too! I love that film.
@ Mona, did you ever get the British comedy league of gentlemen in Canada? There was a character in that who loved pens, "Pens: friends". She was awful, but brilliant.
Not everything, Cubby. I filter out your whining posts and your sexual indiscretions. I'm no ordinary bird brain, ya know.
I DO hope you're feeling better! 8-)
@ DARCY- I'm extremely addicted to that site now...thanks, babe! I think mostly everything about the *yellow crayon* is correct for me, as well. You're right...weird how people can know one another when they have never even met...yet!
I'm ever so thrilled that I brought up, "If I was a crayon, I'd wanna' be the colour purple."
Because if I had not, then maybe it might not have triggered your brain to bring up that link!!
Great minds think alike, dearie!! HEHE!!
Thanks!
Turns out I'm a green crayon too...which makes sense. You don't expect basil to be purple.
Purple IS my favourite colour but when I read the description of the green crayon it fit me to a T...or rather a B.
I did several of the other quizzes, it gets dull after a while tho. After a couple you know how to answer to get the result you want. Or have I just been evaluated too often?
Thanks Night I am feeling better. Whine? Moi, never!
I am a yellow crayon...but I know for certain no one has ever thought of me as a genius! What does it mean about the opposite side of the color wheel...and why do purple crayons think I'm an airhead? I love yellow and purple together as a color combination.
Geez, wierd, I just looked around and realized my whole house is painted yellow, or shades of.