Subject: Hasn't Urple been a thing since OFUM?
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Posted on: 2013-11-08 02:56:00 UTC
There was an Istari, something the Urple...he got left on the boat...someone with lots of Tolkien knowledge, help!
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The discovery of "Urple" by
on 2013-11-07 22:58:00 UTC
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For the last week, I have been reading (what may be the worst fanfic of all time) My Immortal. For any of you wondering why I wanted to kill a few billion brain cells, I have never read this badfic, and was wondering if it was truly as bad as people said it was. After a bit of research on TVTropes (where the insert of the badfic killed a couple million brain cells) I decided to hear a dramatic reading, because that is my preferred method in reading a badfic. (It makes it more understandable/interesting.) As I was hearing TehPogo's dramatic reading (text included) and listing to the (500th) clothing description, I came across the following sentence:
"Meanwhile, I pot on a blak ledder mini, a blak corset with urple lace stuff all over it, an black gothic compact boots."
Now, I bet this is just a misspelling of "purple."The sues are relentless, I see.
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Hasn't Urple been a thing since OFUM? by
on 2013-11-08 02:56:00 UTC
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There was an Istari, something the Urple...he got left on the boat...someone with lots of Tolkien knowledge, help!
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Ragna, from memory. by
on 2013-11-08 09:13:00 UTC
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But as I recall (from what, I'm not sure - possibly discussions here on the Board), the first few Sue colours - urple, wilver, and maybe blello - were created by actual typos found in stories, just like mini-Balrogs.
So when was My Immortal written? It is at least conceivable as the origin of the term. Then again, it's hardly a difficult typo to make...
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It is by
on 2013-11-08 03:01:00 UTC
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It is, I just titled this so because this is the first time I have seen it outside of OFUM and the PPC