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Purple Cows of America – Entering the Purple Valley

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from an old publication for first-years (copyright Williams College)

June 11, 2009 · Filed Under Purple Cow

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Purple Cows of America, Reunion Encore

photo copyright Williams College

June 10, 2009 · Filed Under Alumni, Purple Cow, Reunion

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Purple Cows of America (and beyond!) Grand Finale

My google tour of purple cow imagery is, sadly, at an end. But I learned quite a bit about the purple cow oeuvre. You can wash down your purple cow beer with purple cow wine to get nice and groggy for a trip across the Atlantic to the purple cow theater. The following morning, you can nurse your purple cow-sized hangover with purple cow pancakes and purple cow coffee, before loading up on purple cow subs at lunch time. Purple cows come in all shapes and sizes and styles: old school, vulnerable, sartorial, bling-laden, automotive, literary, trippy, hungry, dancing (with Matt Harding at Yahoo!), mailable, mutated, and yes, even sexy.

One thing I knew before, but am even more certain of now: Lord Jeffrey, notwithstanding his perfectly lovely name, is no purple cow — not even close. And yes, even after seeing thousands of fictional purple cows, more than ever, I hope to see a real one … (could the lovely bovine pictured above be her?). So, which is your favorite purple cow?

(Thanks to Kim and JG for pointing me to a few of the links noted above).

June 8, 2009 · Filed Under Purple Cow

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Purple Cows of America, Part Five

Good luck graduates!

June 7, 2009 · Filed Under Purple Cow

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Purple Cows of America, Part Four

It’s Saturday, and I miss football, so here are two football-themed purple cows for the price of one:

June 6, 2009 · Filed Under Purple Cow

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Purple Cows of America, Part Three

Purple Cow Road, Crimora, Virginia

June 5, 2009 · Filed Under Purple Cow

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Purple Cows of America, Part Two

Some enterprising student should reproduce this image on a t-shirt. I guarantee it would be a HUGE seller on campus.

June 4, 2009 · Filed Under Purple Cow

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As Requested ….

Someone has now posted something today, thereby delaying part 17 of DK’s 793 part series, “my musings on TIPS.”

June 3, 2009 · Filed Under Purple Cow

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Spring Street Demolition

From the Images Cinema blog:

The Hopkins Funeral Home is being demolished today. Also on the list to be demolished this week, the former Subway / Purple Pub building.

If anyone will be taking pictures of the Purple Cow in its last days of existence or during demolition, please post in this thread.

March 30, 2009 · Filed Under Construction, Photos, Purple Cow

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Eph Word of the Day: Palinode

From A.Word.A.Day at Wordsmith.org:

palinode

PRONUNCIATION:

(PAL-uh-noad)

MEANING:

noun: A poem in which the author retracts something said in an earlier poem.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Greek palinoidia, from palin (again) + oide (song). It’s the same palin that shows up in the word palindrome…

NOTES:

The illustrator and humorist Gelett Burgess (1866-1951) once wrote a poem called The Purple Cow:

I never saw a purple cow,
I never hope to see one;
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I’d rather see than be one.

The poem became so popular and he became so closely linked with this single quatrain that he later wrote a palinode:

Confession: and a Portrait, Too,
Upon a Background that I Rue!
Oh, yes, I wrote ‘The Purple Cow,’
I’m sorry now I wrote it!
But I can tell you anyhow,
I’ll kill you if you quote it.

USAGE:

“The more lighthearted palinodes were more successful, such as Geoff Horton’s recantation of his youthful view that a martini should be shaken rather than stirred.”
Jaspitos; I Take It Back; The Spectator (London, UK); Jan 24, 2004.