# One eyed, one horned flying...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-eyed-one-horned-flying/35710>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 5, 2000, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-eyed-one-horned-flying/35710 "2000-10-05T02:53:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![struuter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@struuter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/struuter)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-eyed-one-horned-flying/35710/21 "2000-10-05T19:18:35Z")

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Okay, first of all–could it be possible that to this alien (who may or may not be purple himself) we appear to be…purple? Some alien genetic thing?

Secondly, and mostly just out of personal curiousity,

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> \*Originally posted by Smeghead \*  
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> _Standing on the table, madly waving around a homemade flag_ \*\*

This flag, is it…purple?

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**Author:** ![GolfWidow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a698b9/32.png) [@GolfWidow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GolfWidow)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-eyed-one-horned-flying/35710/22 "2000-10-05T20:07:23Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Smeghead \*  
> \*\*I vote A for no particular reason other than that there aren’t a lot of purple people around. \*\*

Yeah. On the other hand, those one-eyed, one-horned people eating flying creatures are pretty common!

I say the OEOHFPPE eats purple people.

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