# my use of purple **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 30, 2003, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-use-of-purple/165123 "2003-03-30T00:59:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Sue\_Duhnym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@Sue\_Duhnym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_Duhnym)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-use-of-purple/165123/121 "2003-04-02T20:11:44Z")
\*Shoot! I forgot to change my location. \* ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-use-of-purple/165123/122 "2003-04-02T20:45:31Z")
Right on, _ **Sue Duhnym** _! Right on! ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-use-of-purple/165123/123 "2003-04-02T20:53:30Z")
I forgot to mention that [b_Sue Duhnym_\*\*, although you are not like Rosa Parks, because that is who **raisinbread** is like, you are like the third black woman to sit at the front of the bus. (Not to be immodest, but I am like the second black woman.) Even though we don’t know their names, these women were also very important. Not as important as Rosa Parks, of course, but still very important. Maybe 3/7ths as important? Could be more. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-use-of-purple/165123/124 "2003-04-02T21:02:10Z")
**Hang on a moment. My use of large type face in conjunction with bold took place a FULL 7 minutes before Sue used those {i} tags. I claim the title of Third Black Woman. Sue gets to bat clean-up.** ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-use-of-purple/165123/125 "2003-04-02T21:04:00Z")
_ **So, does this mean I can the 4th black woman? Wow, aren’t we all unique and wonderful snowflakes!??!** _ ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-use-of-purple/165123/126 "2003-04-02T21:07:00Z")
**Raisinbread** defends his/her use of the color purple. Debate ensues. Other people start trying to make the point of how stupid it is by using their own gimmicks. Thread devolves into people trying to post bigger and better gimmick posts. Look, no matter what you think of purple (I don’t care one way or the other myself), we really don’t need everyone trying to make up a new gimmick to demonstrate how annoying purple is. Just for kicks, who didn’t see this one coming a mile away? ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-use-of-purple/165123/127 "2003-04-02T21:09:49Z")
**Munch** , you have a point. When I first posted about _ **Sue Duhnym** _, because your response was only one word, it wasn’t clear whether you were truly committed to being different, like **raisinbread** , _ **Sue Duhnym** _ and myself, or if you were just one of those “Johnny-come-latelies” who post something and then go get a sandwich. So, I figured you were probably like the woman at the back of the bus who yelled “you go, girl!” at Rosa and the second woman. Which is good, but not really that good, so I didn’t mention it. Now, I see you are in fact truly committed to this cause, so I think you’re right about being the third black woman. Sorry, _ **Sue Duhnym** _, you’re now the fourth black woman, who probably had to take a seat closer to the middle, since there were already three other black women near the front. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-use-of-purple/165123/128 "2003-04-02T21:10:08Z")
_ **I love the smell of sarcasm in the morning** _ ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-use-of-purple/165123/129 "2003-04-02T21:12:14Z")
**lel** , posting in plain type in a thread full of people trying to be different is such an obvious attention-getting ploy. You really ought to get help. _ **Diane** _, if **rosabread** agrees, then I see no problem with making you either fifth black woman, or first black woman to sit in the front of a different bus, once word of the black women on Rosa’s bus got out. ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-use-of-purple/165123/130 "2003-04-02T21:13:20Z")
_ **So where does that leave me? In the luggage rack?** _ ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-use-of-purple/165123/131 "2003-04-02T21:16:01Z")
_ **Oh, okay just as long as I get to ride the bus. Will we get a discount on the fare? Where is the bus headed and can we stop for burgers?** _ ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-use-of-purple/165123/132 "2003-04-02T21:16:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by erislover \* > \*\*So let me get this straight… people’s eyes are caught by the color of the post. They then proceed to ignore or otherwise discount the content because their eyes were drawn to it? I know we’re three pages into this and I should understand by now, but I don’t. There is a link in the chain I am missing. Can someone please fill it in for me? \*\* I’ve been pondering this for a while. I do tend to automatically skip **raisnibread** ’s posts. I see the big block of purple type first out of whatever’s on the page, read down to it, then read the next one. Why? As near as I can figure it’s a reflex. Somewhere in my head is a general assumption that the value of content is inversely proportional to the amount of effort made to draw my attention to it. Spam and popups are a large part of that, as are the eyeball frying colour combinations, animations, and background music I occasionally run across on web pages I wish I hadn’t wound up viewing. Unfair? Maybe so, but there it is. ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-use-of-purple/165123/133 "2003-04-02T21:24:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Giraffe \* > **lel** , posting in plain type in a thread full of people trying to be different is such an obvious attention-getting ploy. You really ought to get help. I’m unique, just like everybody else. ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-use-of-purple/165123/134 "2003-04-02T21:28:28Z")
I also completely destroyed the point of that post by screwing up the coding inside the quote. Oh well, I’m so unique, I’ll post twice in a row just to point out a coding error. Nobody has ever done that before. ---
**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-use-of-purple/165123/135 "2003-04-02T21:33:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by 2trew \* > As near as I can figure it’s a reflex. Somewhere in my head is a general assumption that the value of content is inversely proportional to the amount of effort made to draw my attention to it. Fucking advertisers! **wring** , your post made me think of the cartoons where the character’s eyes act as slot machine tumblers. Heh! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-use-of-purple/165123/136 "2003-04-02T22:05:42Z")
I aM gOiNg To PoSt LiKe ThIs BeCaUsE It Is UnIqUe aNd sHiT lIkE tHaT. wHeRe Is My BuS gOiNg To StOp So I cAn BoArD iT? i HaVe AlReAdY eAtEn. ---
**Author:** ![cheddarsnax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@cheddarsnax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cheddarsnax)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-use-of-purple/165123/137 "2003-04-02T22:06:50Z")
It’s purple. I like purple. I like it. ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-use-of-purple/165123/138 "2003-04-02T22:20:09Z")
I think that’s a logical fallacy, **appletreats**. (Is it a false analogy? I never remember which fallacy is which.) I like the color purple, but that does not necessarily mean that I like posts written in purple font. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-use-of-purple/165123/139 "2003-04-02T22:24:40Z")
People, the bus was from a long time ago. It’s just an analogy, like professional wrestling. You can’t actually ride it. I hope that **rosabread** will come back here and explain things better than I did, because people are obviously getting confused. ---
**Author:** ![Tabithina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@Tabithina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabithina)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-use-of-purple/165123/140 "2003-04-02T22:26:05Z")
**iampunha**? Where can I get bifocals for my eyes, now that they look like this? (.)sub[/sub] 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-use-of-purple/165123.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-use-of-purple/165123.md?page=8)