# One eyed,one horned, flying purple people eater.. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 25, 2002, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-eyed-one-horned-flying-purple-people-eater/110823 "2002-05-25T18:47:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2002, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-eyed-one-horned-flying-purple-people-eater/110823/21 "2002-05-30T20:49:31Z")
_ **One-eyed, One-horned, Flying Purple People Eater** _ **Frequency:** very rare **No. appearing:** 1 **Armor Class:** 3 **Move:** 6"/24" **Hit dice:** 10 + 4 **THAC0:** 10 **% in lair:** 0% **Treasure type:** nil **No. of attacks:** 2 **Damage/attack:** 4-24/2-12 **Special attacks:** nil **Special defenses:** nil **Magic resistance:** standard **Intelligence:** low **Alignment:** chaotic-hungry **Size:** L **Psionic ability:** nil [sup] **Attack/Defense modes:** nil[/sup] The one-eyed, one-horned flying purple people eater’s diet consists of people. Whether this is limited to people who are purple, fly, have one horn, and/or have one eye is a matter of speculation, but it is assumed by most adventurers that the creature will devour any sort of people if it gets sufficiently hungry, provided that its meal isn’t too tough. The creature attacks with its single horn and its bite, with successful attacks doing 4-24 and 2-12 damage respectively. It prefers to swoop down on its prey from above, as its pigeon toes do not provide for fast movement on foot. When not engaged in combat, it has been rumored that the creature has aspirations of becoming a rock star and can be found playing his horn as a musical instrument. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2002, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-eyed-one-horned-flying-purple-people-eater/110823/22 "2002-05-30T20:57:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Stuffy \* > \*\*When I saw this thread I immeditely remembered a compilation album from the 70’s or early 80’s, that was sold on TV. It was animated, and the One Eyed One-Horned Flying Purple People Eater was dipicted as being in fact purple. Guess the producers should have done some research. Anybody else remember that commercial, it also featured Alley Oop as I recall? \*\* Remember it? Hell I got it for Christmas! Goofy Gold, a two album set, featuring: Beep Beep King Kong Your Song Ahab The Arab Transfusion OEOEFPPE Alley Oop Mr. Custer and many more! My borther and I acted out every one of those songs one day. Who knew interpretive dance was in my blood? ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2002, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-eyed-one-horned-flying-purple-people-eater/110823/23 "2002-05-30T21:11:39Z")
I remember rockin’ out to this song, a few years ago, when i bought the Dr. Demento CD set it was on. Anyone here remember the sequal, with the purple people eater meeting the witch doctor? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2002, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-eyed-one-horned-flying-purple-people-eater/110823/24 "2002-05-30T21:21:59Z")
> [@](#): > > **Alignment:** chaotic-hungry You realize, of course, **tracer** , that it’s all your fault that the rest of the folks in the lab are looking at me funny right now. ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2002, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-eyed-one-horned-flying-purple-people-eater/110823/25 "2002-05-30T22:14:30Z")
That’s the one Max, I almost mentioned the Ray Stevens tunes, but wasn’t sure. I have a Ray Stevens collection from the same period, and thought I might be confusing the two. Oh great, now I have The Streak running through my head. ---
**Author:** ![IMWOMANHERE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/57b2e6/32.png) [@IMWOMANHERE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IMWOMANHERE)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-eyed-one-horned-flying-purple-people-eater/110823/26 "2002-06-04T04:56:38Z")
I remember singing with Mom and Dad on car trips in the late 50’s. This song and Seven Little Girls Sittin’ in the Backseat,Kissin’ and a Huggin’ with Fred. Thanks for the momories! ---
**Author:** ![RiverRunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@RiverRunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiverRunner)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-eyed-one-horned-flying-purple-people-eater/110823/27 "2002-06-04T19:23:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Stuffy \* > \*\*Oh great, now I have The Streak running through my head. \*\* There’s an easy cure. Just think of _Freedy Feelgood’s Funky Little Five-piece Band._ Yow! Work out, now! RR 😛 ---
**Author:** ![RiverRunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@RiverRunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiverRunner)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-eyed-one-horned-flying-purple-people-eater/110823/28 "2002-06-04T19:25:00Z")
Re: Freedy I meant, of course, “Freddy.” Freedy is his younger brother. RR ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-eyed-one-horned-flying-purple-people-eater/110823/29 "2002-06-04T20:02:22Z")
I expected more from the straight dope, my colleagues here seem to have forgotten a basic rule of logic. Namely that deductive reasoning is useless if the premise is faulty. **deadOman** asks if the monster is purple or if it eats purple people. **Helena** then submits direct evidence from verse three that the monster in question consumes homo sapiens that reflect electromagnetic waves with a frequency of approximately 700 trillion hertz. It is then concluded that the beast would not reflect electromagnetic waves with a frequency of approximately 700 trillion hertz. This is wrong. The error lies in the mistaken premise that this relationship follows an either/or model. There is no evidence that this is the case. The fact that A = C does not preclude the possibility of B _also_ equalling C. I submit to you, ladies and gentlemen, new evidence in this matter. In my frequent trips to the Serengetti Alps, located off the Arctic coast of the Brazillian Congo, I have obtained a specimen of _tyranoavian unicycloptus_. The beast is in fact, both purple and a predator of purple people. [Here](http://www.theartsnob.com/gallery1pg5.htm) is a digital photo of the specimen captured. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-eyed-one-horned-flying-purple-people-eater/110823/30 "2002-06-04T20:13:29Z")
While your logic is impeccable, my three-armed friend, it is a bit belated. I made the point that both the eater and eaten could be purple nearly a week ago (see my post above, which involves speculation on the cause of such a chromatic coincidence). Perhaps I pointed it out _too_ diffidently. Still, additional evidence is always welcome. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Swampwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Swampwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swampwolf)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-eyed-one-horned-flying-purple-people-eater/110823/31 "2002-06-04T20:19:18Z")
> [@](#): > > I said mr Purple People Eater what’s your line > He said **eating purple people** and it sure is fine > But that’s not the reason that I came to land > I wanna get a job in a rock ‘n roll band > Well, bless my soul rock ‘n roll flying’ purple people eater > Pigeon-toed under-growed flyin’ purple people eater > one-eyed one-horned it was a people eater > What a sight to see (bolding mine) ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-eyed-one-horned-flying-purple-people-eater/110823/32 "2002-06-04T20:38:47Z")
**Beeblebrox** , would you please convey our appreciation to the artist, who is clearly destined for a successful career as a creative limner of nature? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-eyed-one-horned-flying-purple-people-eater/110823/33 "2002-06-04T20:47:41Z")
Oh, but what of the hammer-head shark floating beside the OEOHFPPE in that artist’s rendition??? Where does he fit in ??? ---
**Author:** ![Sengkelat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Sengkelat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sengkelat)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-eyed-one-horned-flying-purple-people-eater/110823/34 "2002-06-04T21:15:48Z")
Not to mention that in the illo the people-eater is primarily green. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-eyed-one-horned-flying-purple-people-eater/110823/35 "2002-06-04T21:26:56Z")
From the same site that **Beeblebrox** located that artist’s rendering of the OEOHFPPE, [here](http://www.theartsnob.com/gallery5pg7.htm) is a second viewpoint. Note carefully how the creature can, as it were, “double in brass.” ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-eyed-one-horned-flying-purple-people-eater/110823/36 "2002-06-04T21:32:37Z")
That PPE is obviously a sloppily doctored photo as he is not, as the song says “playin’ rock’n’roll music through the horn in his head,” but rather playing some sort of music through the horn in his ass. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-eyed-one-horned-flying-purple-people-eater/110823.md?page=1)