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When Is Purple

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When Is Purple	comment	In some works, the lines separating time and space and color and various other abstract concepts sometimes get blurred. This can be done for many reasons, ranging from Faux Symbolism to actual symbolism and from portraying a character as deep and wise to portraying him as weird or outright psychotic. See also Ice-Cream Koan. Not to be confused with Tastes Like Purple, where it's about the senses getting mixed up rather than metaphors or reality itself twisting beyond comprehension. Examples
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When Is Purple / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons naturally has an example.
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When Is Purple / int_3fbd173e	comment	In Freefall, Florence once tested a couple of robots for sapience by asking them "What does my name smell like?" One of them declared the question to be nonsense and ignored it. The other reasoned that since he didn't have olfactory senses and Florence did, names might actually have a scent to her, proving that he could consider alternate opinions and perspectives.
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When Is Purple / int_468bebb0	comment	There's a minor recurring joke in the Discworld books about this. The Disc rests on the back of four elephants, which are standing on the back of a giant sea turtle. This sometimes leads to people wondering, "What does the turtle stand on?" which the narration explains is a question that makes about as much sense as asking what sound the colour yellow makes.* For those unfamiliar with the series, this is the narration's rather flippant way of saying "Nothing; it's a sea turtle and it swims through outer space". As that was information you may not have known, it seems asking the question made perfect sense, when you think about it.
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When Is Purple / int_498b77e9	comment	In Skin Horse, when the Black Helicopter piloted by a Brain in a Jar is asked whether is dead he answers 'mu' (see Buddhism below).
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When Is Purple / int_5307b01d	comment	One Penny Arcade strip presents a conundrum: Gabe cannot remember his password for some thing or other, and he's left himself the nigh-incomprehensible "what is delicious" as a hint. Tycho is stumped; what, in fact, is delicious? The concept of delicious? But Gabe left off the question mark. Perhaps it's a statement. Perhaps what, itself, is delicio -
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When Is Purple / int_5908ee91	comment	Referenced in Skyrim; if you ask the Arcane University's librarian who wrote the Elder Scrolls, he replies that it would take him some time to explain why that question doesn't make sense.
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When Is Purple / int_61a39969	comment	Avengers: Infinity War has Literal-Minded Drax with this gem: Which, ironically, is actually a very reasonable question: Understanding why Thanos has gone to the trouble of specifically kidnapping Gamora would have told them what the next step of his plan was.
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When Is Purple / int_68d7b51d	comment	4chan gave us the infamous Translation Train Wreck "Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?" So far, still no conclusion on what it was supposed to say, though one likely candidate in context (they were discussing The Conduit) would be "Has anyone else really decided to go that far in wanting to be more like?"—that is, "Has any other company gone this far to make a game look realistic?"
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When Is Purple / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons: Module WG7 Castle Greyhawk: In one level of the dungeon, the PCs can meet a philosopher who asks questions like, "Why is up?" and "Sideways: fact or fiction?" Spelljammer introduced astrosphinxes, insane and murderous creatures with heads resembling goat skulls. They go around asking "riddles" such as "What's the speed of down?" or "How loud is blue?" and blasting anything that can't answer with Chain Lightning. On the other hand, there's a 1% chance that an astrosphinx will perceive a similarly-insane response as a valid answer, causing the creature to explode in a burst of electricity.
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When Is Purple / int_7c48915b	comment	Gunnerkrigg Court: In the first City Face interlude, we find that fairies perceive time and space differently from how we do:
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When Is Purple / int_87f2d9f8	comment	The Rachnai in Mass Effect talk about their hive-mind-speak by mixing taste, color, and song, such as describing the mind-rape of one of their queens as causing her to sing with a "sour yellow note".
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When Is Purple / int_a4420d22	comment	The Venture Bros.: It turns out erasing someone's memory too often can cause them to think like this.
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When Is Purple / int_bb8d2f1a	comment	One particularly famous example appears in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, when the computer "Deep Thought" concludes that the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is... the number 42. It was at this point that Deep Thought's creators realised they didn't know what the Ultimate Question was.
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When Is Purple / int_d7c4626a	comment	In the Sandman spin-off Death: The Time of Your Life, Death uses this in her attempts to explain that certain "deep" questions, such as why the universe isn't fair, rest on an underlying misconception. (Fair for whom? Fair by what metric?)
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When Is Purple / int_d930a4c7	comment	Spelljammer introduced astrosphinxes, insane and murderous creatures with heads resembling goat skulls. They go around asking "riddles" such as "What's the speed of down?" or "How loud is blue?" and blasting anything that can't answer with Chain Lightning. On the other hand, there's a 1% chance that an astrosphinx will perceive a similarly-insane response as a valid answer, causing the creature to explode in a burst of electricity.
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When Is Purple / int_dc72c82f	comment	The sap produced by the Sinister Sprout in Fallen London is described as tasting somewhat like pineapple, and somewhat like your mind being consumed by the endless depths of the earth.
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When Is Purple / int_e5c6748d	comment	In one short from The Three Stooges, Curly asks, "Is it as warm in the country as it is in the summer?"
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