Re: CHAT: Brook Conner's signature (was: HW recognition)

At 10:43 AM 11/18/99 +0100, Irina wrote:
>On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Nik Taylor wrote:
>
>> One-eyed one-horned flying purple [people-eater] or
>> One-eyed one-horned flying [purple people]-eater
>>
>> That is, is it a purple thing that eats people, or a thing that eats
>> purple people?  ;-)
>>
>> For that matter, maybe it eats one-eyed one-horned flying people.  :-)
>
>This question came up on the NetHack newsgroup a while ago (it's one
>of the things you see in the game when you're hallucinating) and the
>consensus was that it had one eye and one horn, could fly, and ate
>purple people. Not being a purple person I don't have any first-hand
>experience with it ;-)
>
Long ago, I had a plastic statue of a purple people eater.  It was an
all-over, dark purple.  I don't know about the people it ate.

-- Terry

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