Purple is a colour that occurs as a result of high frequency electromagnetic waves being absorbed by the retina in the eye.
It’s also what you get if you mix red and blue, and is one of the more homosexual colours available.
Famous purple things are: Deep Purple (the band), Purple Haze (the song), purple towels, violets (the flower), parma violets (the small crunchy sweet, purchased in a cylindrical tower wrapped in plastic), and it is also the sort of colour you see a lot on a moonlit night.
*Originally posted [here][]*
[here]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A207208