# why i post in purple
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-post-in-purple/149488
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 18, 2003, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-post-in-purple/149488 "2003-01-18T16:56:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2003, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-post-in-purple/149488/21 "2003-01-18T19:51:26Z")
I thought it was a tribute to the legendary Mrs. Wanker, Peggy Bundy’s mother, who called in one episode in the middle of the night to ask for Peg’s recipe for raisin bread.
Of course, Al hadn’t paid the phone bill because of a stupid dispute, the phone was disconnected, and Steve took the call at his house. He shouted to Peg, woke her up, and Peg started to shout back: “Tell her to get some raisins, a loaf of bread, and a hammer!”
_snif_ I am so touched at this tribute to MWC.
Oh yeah, reunion show on February 16th!!!
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### Author:  [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2003, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-post-in-purple/149488/22 "2003-01-18T19:54:43Z")
Deep Pink is pretty.
But I’m a cat and can’t see colors. I think.
So I’ll knock this off.
Purple is OK but if we start having color everywhere, it’ll just lead to multiple exclamation points!!!1!!!1
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### Author:  [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2003, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-post-in-purple/149488/23 "2003-01-18T20:02:22Z")
I’m more of a crimson red kinda person…
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### Author:  [@grendel72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grendel72)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2003, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-post-in-purple/149488/24 "2003-01-18T20:10:21Z")
I feel pretty, oh so pretty…
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### Author:  [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2003, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-post-in-purple/149488/25 "2003-01-18T21:13:05Z")
Maybe **raisinbread** matriculated at NYU…?
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### Author:  [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2003, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-post-in-purple/149488/26 "2003-01-18T21:22:22Z")
This thread is almost as exciting as the wfqxxxx name one.
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### Author:  [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2003, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-post-in-purple/149488/27 "2003-01-18T21:22:29Z")
why not
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### Author:  [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2003, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-post-in-purple/149488/28 "2003-01-18T22:23:23Z")
I don’t _really_ care if you post in purple. I might as well tell you what to write in your posts. It’s just that the background matches up to the text _very_ well, making it hard to read.
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### Author:  [@TelcontarStorm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TelcontarStorm)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2003, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-post-in-purple/149488/29 "2003-01-19T00:25:37Z")
do they manufacture purple cheese???
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### Author:  [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2003, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-post-in-purple/149488/30 "2003-01-19T00:38:57Z")
They seek **raisinbread** [here](http://kstater.cjb.net/),
They seek him/her [there](http://www.dodgenet.com/~susie/purplink.htm),
Those inquisitive Dopers seek **raisinbread** [everywhere](http://w1.541.telia.com/~u54105597/house.html) …
Eh. Post however. Purple just makes it a bit harder to concentrate on what you’re on about, IMHO.
Just please don’t have us on like that other wfq15-whatever guy, okay?
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### Author:  [@typhoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typhoon)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2003, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-post-in-purple/149488/31 "2003-01-19T00:59:23Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Wicked Blue \*
> \*\*I thought it was because your name has ‘raisin’ in it and raisins are purple. \*\*
And the grey is the bread?
Brilliant.
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### Author:  [@raisinbread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raisinbread)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2003, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-post-in-purple/149488/32 "2003-01-19T01:02:45Z")
It just has to do with raisins.
I have no idea about that wfqxxx person though.
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### Author:  [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2003, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-post-in-purple/149488/33 "2003-01-19T01:56:43Z")
Raisins are purple, where you’re at?
Here, they’re brown, shrivelled-up li’l things you put in kiddie’s lunchboxes.
Th’ things you learn … 🙂
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### Author:  [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2003, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-post-in-purple/149488/34 "2003-01-19T02:35:33Z")
I don’t know, but it probably has something to do with your hatred of smurfs.
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### Author:  [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2003, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-post-in-purple/149488/35 "2003-01-19T03:16:22Z")
Purple haze all in my brain
Lately things just don’t seem the same
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### Author:  [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2003, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-post-in-purple/149488/36 "2003-01-19T04:44:54Z")
I always thought it was because of the raisins, too.
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### Author:  [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2003, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-post-in-purple/149488/37 "2003-01-19T05:02:26Z")
Um, is it because you whack off a lot, but you’re really into that auto-erotic strangulation, and you do it so often that the blood vessels in your eyes are permanently dilated, so much so that it actually tinges your field of vison red, but the light refracting off the edges of your blue irises actually gives the appearance of purple, so you just thought you’d share?
Is that it? Huh? Huh?
P.S. - If that’s it, please don’t accidentally hang yourself from a shower bar or anything. 'Cause if you live alone, then by time someone found you, you’d actually _be_ purple. And bloated, too, which isn’t very raisin-like if you ask me.
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### Author:  [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2003, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-post-in-purple/149488/38 "2003-01-19T05:24:31Z")
I am all the colors of the rainbow
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### Author:  [@SilentSpeak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SilentSpeak)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2003, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-post-in-purple/149488/39 "2003-01-19T05:31:36Z")
gay pride?
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### Author:  [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2003, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-post-in-purple/149488/40 "2003-01-19T07:41:52Z")
Warning us not to eat the purple acid?
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