Hi! Ardith,   
      
   On 01/26/2019 11:52 PM, you wrote:   
      
    PQ>>  And that is why I've never feared purple people eaters.  :-P   
    AH>          Or ferocious fire-breathing dragons, or enormous meat-eating   
    AH> dinosaurs?   
      
   The order of adjectives supports an old joke: I'm safe because I'm not purple.   
      
    AH>          Now that you mention it... the lyrics say "a one-eyed   
    AH> one-horned flying purple people eater", IIRC.  I'm not quite sure how   
    AH> these added words would fit the theory, unless one considers them as +/-   
    AH> pertaining to shape, but the whole kit & kaboodle sounds right AFAIC.   
    AH> You've reminded me of another song here too   
    AH> .. i.e. the one about an "itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny yellow polka dot   
    AH> bikini".  It seems to me that with all of the above we're not afaid of   
    AH> them because, if they ever actually existed, they don't pose any real   
    AH> danger to us... and because, if the series is very long &/or very silly,   
    AH> it makes us laugh.   
      
   Holy mackerel!  There's some wild old memories you're digging up there.  So,   
   was it a white bikini?  ;)   
      
    AH>          Thankyou!  I hope other native speakers will join the fun.  I   
    AH> also hope somebody will have noticed that I used "a"... not "an"... with   
    AH> "one-eyed".  ;-)   
      
   We probably accepted it as being correct without making a specific check.    
   OTOH, I note with interest that you a use a single word 'thank you'.  Is that   
   a Canadian thing?   
      
   Cheers,   
   Paul.   
      
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