OT - people eaters - was: An assessment of the Unicode standard

[Hendrik van Rooyen]

On Friday 18 September 2009 06:39:57 Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

> 	A one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people eater?
>
> {Which brings up the confusing question... Is the eater purple, or does
> it eat purple people (which is why it is so rare... it only eats people
> caught in the last stages of suffocation <G>)}

Snap (sort of). 
Does anybody know where the concept of the purple people eater comes from?
I mean is there a children's book or something?

- Hendrik