2009/9/19 r <rt8396 at gmail.com>: > 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 I've always assumed it to go back to the 1958 Sheb Wooley song. Which I remember, although I was only 3 when it was released. -- Tim Rowe