Get your facts right cos it aint all the recent topics..its more or less - less than that..

//Its just it doesn't seem so inviting or enticing enough to spark comments.

Here's to more sucky topics then.

if your on such a different 'page' to the rest of us why continue to linger?
also, this topic isint the greatest thing ive ever read, more moaning and bitching, good work, great contribution. :D

A few..I'll have to go back & see to note which ones but yes..if you have to be so smart Noiseboy yes this one too..This one sucks more than any other topic!!

agreed. i thought some of the intellignencia of yesteryear had come back...

Easy Daisy.

Its not the topic really as I've just thought about it..its mainly the remarks made that gives it a poor report I guess (for me anyway..)..You're topics have been awesome..pretty much the stuff we like to talk about..like I said, its probably just me & the absence of all the cool posters thats getting to me.

//the absence of all the cool posters thats getting to me.
God, someone hold me back.

Thanks for the Purple Clarity....
Here i was thinking a purple patch was a sea of green planted in a nutrient deficient paddock, then there was that purple pills thing the D12 did & someone telling me that purple was the international Gay colour & I never got over why tinky winky had a handbag & why there is a shop in hamilton called purple patch that on my last walk past was all about quilt stitching & needlework.
But thanks that clears things up nicely for me. .

i'm interested to know who the cool posers are?

apparently so, but i shouldnt have replied, your not cool enough.
(hahaha)

so this is a popularity contest now??

Purple being a colour only available to the wealthy (before synthetic dyes) and so denoting good fortune. Hence purple = good ...

Cloth dyed a purple color, or a garment of such color;
especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or
authority; specifically, the purple rode or mantle worn by
Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity; as, to
put on the imperial purple.

Thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of
fine twined linen, and purple, and scarlet. --Ex.
xxvi. 1.

3. Hence: Imperial sovereignty; royal rank, dignity, or
favor; loosely and colloquially, any exalted station;
great wealth. ``He was born in the purple.'' --Gibbon.

Stu, I had heard the story of the purple fabrics, but not the "He was born in the purple" quote before.
I'm picking this is similar to the "born with a silver spoon in his mouth" & some story I had heard about blue bloods being so, because of the amount of colloidal silver the wealthy were exposed to resulting in an almost blue apprearance.
(Could be poppy cock, oops now I'm thinking about Bill Hicks big purple vien dick joke.)

As a youngster i was exposed frequently to the one eyed one horned flyin purple people eater, a single my mother thrashed continuously at party's. However thats another story & proabably more suited to Over the teacups section of the womens weekly.

left my man standing with the egg moustache

What a tall Gee!!
Have you ever heard the saying "Size Aint Shit"
not that I'll mess wit you..

//The things you say, your purple prose just gives you away

AACHHHH!! You've just solved one of my long-standing life mysteries. I was always trying to work out what the hell those words were...

I always thought it was "homophones" - which as it happens, is a word that doesn't actually exist, but I imagined it to mean "words that sound the same". Silly me.

Speaking of quirks of the English Language, isn't purple prose generally considered to be a BAD thing? Like using descriptive words just for the sake of them, and using too many to try and make yourself seem cleverer? All my English teachers always told us off for using "purple prose".

// homophones

I use the word in conversation (haha, has this strayed from that topic where Heather & Aka were trying to out-geek each other?) and was taught it at university as part of an introduction to Linguistics. So I reckon it does exist, and it means exactly what you thought.

And yeah, purple prose is a bad thing, but apparently one meaning of purple patch isn't. Not that I'd seen the phrase until Noizy used it in this topic.

No thanks to me, we're on a different level.
Suck the suckness out..you always manage to get by with a great job.