# A house only Prince & the Grapist could love. Newslink **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 15, 2010, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-house-only-prince-the-grapist-could-love-newslink/525140 "2010-01-15T23:51:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-house-only-prince-the-grapist-could-love-newslink/525140/1 "2010-01-15T23:51:48Z")
\ Pur-pule HOUSE! Pur=ple Hooouuusseee…!\ > **[Never saw a purple house? You can own one for just $33,900](https://archive.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/81619842.html/)** > > For much of the past two decades, it's been a quirky south side landmark, if not necessarily a welcome neighbor. Everyone around here knows the purple house behind the purple fence. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-house-only-prince-the-grapist-could-love-newslink/525140/2 "2010-01-16T00:04:30Z")
33…thousand? for a house? With land under it? Damn. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-house-only-prince-the-grapist-could-love-newslink/525140/3 "2010-01-16T00:45:50Z")
I’ve always wanted to paint my house purple. I’d have choosen a darker shade. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-house-only-prince-the-grapist-could-love-newslink/525140/4 "2010-01-16T00:59:36Z")
Phooey, I grew up with the [Purple Lady!](http://www.applecherry.net/gallery/smaria/Santa_Maria_Trip_020) She always wore purple, her mailbox and interior and toilet paper was purple, even her husband wore purple. She was an awfully nice person, very friendly, and every so often someone would come and film her. I was at work once when two French guys were filming her right outside, and she gave me her calling card, which was purple and said “The Purple Lady” on it. 🙂 We used to host exchange students from Japan pretty often–for a few weeks–and we would take them and their friends by the place and watch them freak out and take pictures. Oh, I forgot, [her hair was also lilac](http://mystyflwr.blogspot.com/2006/04/purple-lady.html). ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-house-only-prince-the-grapist-could-love-newslink/525140/5 "2010-01-16T01:06:43Z")
I pass that house from time to time, it’s about 10 minutes from where I live. It’s kinda neat the first time you see it, but the thing is a friggin’ eyesore, that picture doesn’t do it justice. ---
**Author:** ![Carnacki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5e925/32.png) [@Carnacki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carnacki)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-house-only-prince-the-grapist-could-love-newslink/525140/6 "2010-01-16T01:15:01Z")
[The Grapist?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqq051BU2MY) ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-house-only-prince-the-grapist-could-love-newslink/525140/7 "2010-01-16T01:18:00Z")
> [@Carnacki](#): > > [The Grapist?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqq051BU2MY) Ahhh, KidScruffy, so young and innocent you never even got to know [The Grapist](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php) (Click on Statistics-\>Find all posts by The Grapist) ---
**Author:** ![LurkerInNJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@LurkerInNJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkerInNJ)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-house-only-prince-the-grapist-could-love-newslink/525140/8 "2010-01-16T02:14:57Z")
The Central Park purple people would love that house. ---
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-house-only-prince-the-grapist-could-love-newslink/525140/9 "2010-01-16T03:16:53Z")
Why do we purple people always get such a bad rap?😉 I mean, I only painted the shutters on my house purple, the rest was grey. And, all of my carpet wasn’t purple, one bedroom had pink carpet instead. The walls? Lavender, beige, and dark purple. See? Everything in moderation? My dishes, glassware, and placemats were all purple. Oh yeah, also my hair. Of course, these days, I’m fairly well reformed. The house has been sold and the color scheme has changed. And I only have a small streak of purple hair that you’d have to look really hard to find. (I have very long, thick hair and have hidden my purple streak in order to maintain a somewhat professional appearance.) What’s wrong with purple, anyways? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-house-only-prince-the-grapist-could-love-newslink/525140/10 "2010-01-16T03:37:57Z")
There was a purple house near the Rolling Acres Mall when I used to live in Akron. And there was a pink house a block or two away. I wonder if they’res till there. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-house-only-prince-the-grapist-could-love-newslink/525140/11 "2010-01-16T04:06:32Z")
> [@Cliffy](#): > > There was a purple house near the Rolling Acres Mall when I used to live in Akron. And there was a pink house a block or two away. I wonder if they’res till there. > > –Cliffy Ha! I live in Akron and people always used to ask me if I was the purple man’s (who lived in the aforementioned purple house) daughter. ETA: Don’t know if the house is still there, though. I don’t travel that way too often. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-house-only-prince-the-grapist-could-love-newslink/525140/12 "2010-01-16T06:26:56Z")
Forgive me if I seem ignorant here, but what’s so unusual about a purple house? Houses can be any colour, surely. Apart from in those communities run by committee with sticks up their arses. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-house-only-prince-the-grapist-could-love-newslink/525140/13 "2010-01-16T06:41:29Z")
I like the purple house . . . very unlike the iridescent, day-glo, shocking pink one of my neighbors chose. She liked the little 2x2" sample from the paint store, and didn’t stop to think what an entire house (+ garage) would look like in that color. I think you can see her house from space. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-house-only-prince-the-grapist-could-love-newslink/525140/14 "2010-01-16T06:47:27Z")
My very small home town had the rainbow house. It was painted in different colors, mostly pastels, horizontally from top to bottom. I never could find out why they painted it that way but it was a must see attraction when we had people visit from out of town. ---
**Author:** ![Carnacki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5e925/32.png) [@Carnacki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carnacki)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-house-only-prince-the-grapist-could-love-newslink/525140/15 "2010-01-16T17:43:21Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Ahhh, KidScruffy, so young and innocent you never even got to know [The Grapist](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php) > > (Click on Statistics-\>Find all posts by The Grapist) Awesome. He graped those threads. Graped them right in the mouth… ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-house-only-prince-the-grapist-could-love-newslink/525140/16 "2010-01-16T19:04:37Z")
> [@Carnacki](#): > > Awesome. He graped those threads. Graped them right in the mouth… At least he didn’t tie them to the radiator and grape them. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-house-only-prince-the-grapist-could-love-newslink/525140/17 "2010-01-16T23:38:21Z")
There was a house I’d pass on the way to high school that I called the Barbie Doll House. I’m trying to remember here… I think it was dark purple with magenta and blue trim. Something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-house-only-prince-the-grapist-could-love-newslink/525140/18 "2010-01-16T23:43:08Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > There was a house I’d pass on the way to high school that I called the Barbie Doll House. I’m trying to remember here… I think it was dark purple with magenta and blue trim. Something like that. There was a house like that near my high school as well. You didn’t happen to grow up on Long Island did you? ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-house-only-prince-the-grapist-could-love-newslink/525140/19 "2010-01-17T00:17:36Z")
Nope. Maybe your Long Island Barbie-person moved to New Jersey? ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-house-only-prince-the-grapist-could-love-newslink/525140/20 "2010-01-17T04:54:28Z")
[Barbie’s Haunted Mansion](http://www.summitlane.com/1127) Somebody painted and decorated a beautiful 1880s Victorian house in nauseous Barbie pink. These rehabbers have bought it and are determined to restore it to its 19th century beauty. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-house-only-prince-the-grapist-could-love-newslink/525140.md?page=2)