Did you know that …
The song “The Purple People Eater” is based on a real creature? It’s true!
As Sheb Wooley fans no doubt already know, the creature described in the song is not, in fact, a purple colored people-eater. Rather, it is an eater of purple people.
The “creature” was actually supposed to be Robert Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer raised grapes, and was said to name each one individually before eating them. As far as I know, however, Dr. Oppenheimer possessed two eyes and zero horns. Maybe that part was a euphemism?
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