@Barney Let's just say: "The bigger they are, the harder they fall."

@gregormehndel Isn't anyone going to tell me what's happened? Is he okay, healthwise? @mfladd, you're the goat, get over here and talk to me!

@Barney As far as I know, his health is fine (still recovering and all) but there was a misunderstanding in a thread and a staff member's comment was taken too seriously and he may or may not have flounced. Hopefully, it's a very short-lived break as he will be missed otherwise. ETA: The flouncing was due to some not-cool emails, by the way. I forgot about that part.

@PurplePawprints Oh, dear and thanks for telling me this. I hope he comes back. I will miss him. We will miss him. Do you hear me @Pavlov?

@PurplePawprints That's awful... where could someone read more about this?

@jjohns71 @Barney The topic is (probably for the best) locked, but if you want to read how it all went down, this is the relevant comment thread: https://meh.com/forum/topics/fedex-not-delivering-orders-to-customers#55bb9fdc8c77e2e8040ea1c7

@jjohns71 The thread was locked and I'm really not comfortable linking to it and potentially bringing the discussion here instead. If you really want to find it, you can do a site:meh.com/forum +search term google search.

@Barney sorry @Barney I did not receive a notification of your msg. I think you now have an understanding of what went on. I am hoping that time is what is required and that he will eventually come back to us. #miss@Pavlov

@brhfl

@Pavlov please email me since you turned off the email you used on this forum. Mine is my user name and yahoo. Thanks.

@gregormehndel HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

@mikibell lol. This IS me calm.

@heartny I doubt it, but maybe we can gang up on them.

@Barney Meh needs to accept purple. Resistance is futile.

@heartny

@jaremelz Aww, and I missed this place and everyone here, too.

@Barney Where did you go? You weren't at... at... at another d-d-deal site, were you?

@jqubed Nope, I wouldn't do that. My Mom fell and broke her hip and because she has a bad heart it kind of complicated doing surgery on her. However, that's all over and she made it through surgery just fine. She is now in re-hab for a couple of months.

@Barney Oh no! My grandmother went through something like that; the hip surgery was complicated by needing to get her off her Coumadin before they could go into surgery. May she have a smooth and speedy recovery!

@jqubed Thank you.

@Barney Glad your mom is recovering. Hate it seeing our parents get older and going through these kinds of things...

@Kidsandliz She is so frail and I feel so helpless...

@curtise I concur! The forum font should be purple!

@ComputerMD82 Every day should be a purple sale page!

@pjdemmitt Yep, I've seen their site (and I thank you), but I bet Meh could give us better prices.

@Chops Reminds me of the The Scotch Tape Boutique from Saturday Night Live, only better.

@heartny I enjoyed that sketch!
Season 4, with Fred Willard hosting, and musical guest Devo.

@Chops You say'n purple's not popular? Huh, huh?

@Chops cat ladies.
Source: my cats.

@Chops I've always wanted to walk in there just to see if they're actually open.

@Chops

I wonder what their demographic is?

Only the wealthiest Phoenician nobles.

@mike808 THIS! This is what Meh should sell (without the purple store logo) right next to the Irk mugs.

@Barney How about a purple Irk mug?

@heartny OK!

@mfladd Ahhhh, rest, what's that? We are getting our "therapy" plan next week. I may have to pick your brain. Okay?

@Barney I said before, anytime. I can't even tell you how many hip fx's I have seen. But I may need more details that we can go over privately if need be.

@mfladd Thank you.

@tomvarela Yep, that's my kind of purple.

@tomvarela Das some guude purple cha got dere.

@tomvarela preeettttttttty

@narfcake I have very few purple AA shirts, but I must admit I really like Fresh Cake a lot better in purple than the original color it came in. Of course, I might be just a tad biased.

@xarous I wonder what it says. No... no, I don't think I want to know.

@The_Baron I feel like one more would have just made this ridiculous.

@jaremelz I actually hit the limit, the max characters for the text box, and broke the edit. I got the "something went terribly wrong" page and had to delete one line.
So this is literally the limit.

@The_Baron Has @shawn seen this? He's going to have a cow if the forum breaks down. But it's sooo pretty...

@The_Baron I guess it's "curtains" for your super cool curtains.

@Barney

@lisaviolet Aww, I'll share all my purple with you.

@Teripie Thanks! One of my all time favorite songs.

@Barney @Teripie When I was a kid, some friends and I made up a dance to this song, put a sign outside the garage that said "Show Today!", then wondered why no one came to see our show.

@SSteve Stupid people. I would have come to your show and danced with you.

@Teripie Aiieee!!

Hi @juststephen. I see you haven't changed any since I've been gone. :) (poor @shawn)

@Barney How've you been? I don't hate purple anymore. It's a color equal to the rest, but I still prefer blue.

@juststephen I'm doing better and yes, I've even missed you.

@Barney Aww. Glad you're doing better.

@juststephen :)

@JonT

@ceagee I had tickets to go see Deep Purple, but I won't be going now. Gave them to a friend. Next time!

@Barney I didn't even know they were on tour. What a bummer that you can't go. I'll have to look them up and see where they are at.

@Barney 08/09/15 GRAND PRAIRIE, TX, UNITED STATES VERIZON THEATRE TIX VIP
VIP PACKAGES ON SALE NOW.

Ok you mehTexans (@JonT et al ) , go have fun. Get @Barney a Tshirt while you are there !

Full tour schedule Not many more spots in US, and none near me. Guess I'll have to go to France or Italy.

@ceagee Can I go with you?

@Barney sure. We can put together the
"Meh Color Europe Purple Tour" . See some sites as long as we're there for the concert kind of thing. I'm thinking the Louvre has a lot of purple things in it. Plus other colors that I like:) and there's all those lavender fields in the south of France to see growing along side the wineries w/ their purple grapes.
What other sites should we throw in ?

@ceagee I've always wanted to go to Germany. Do you think we could swing by there?

@Barney Ja, auf Deutschland lila ist sehr gut.

@ceagee All righty, we'll go to France, and/or Italy, and Germany in search of all kinds of purples, including musical ones. I'll bring potato salad!

@Barney Can I be your friend? I love Deep Purple!

@ceagee Their last couple albums have been really quite good. Check out “Now What” and “Infinite”.
If you don’t catch Purple, Whitesnake is out on “The Purple Tour” doing primarily songs from lead singer David Coverdale’s time fronting Deep Purple!

@tohar1 Anyone who loves Deep Purple is a friend of mine.

@Barney

@Kidsandliz Aww, I love purple. I really do.

@OldCatLady Now that brings up my childhood. I had all but forgotten about that little ditty.

@Kidsandliz Just try not to think of the one that starts 'Birdie, birdie in the sky...' Mom came from a farming family.

@OldCatLady @Kidsandliz I remember when I was a little kid and first heard that poem. I was so excited. I asked my mom if that cow would give purple milk. And then I was so disappointed.

@OldCatLady Birdie birdie... thank you so much (Not!) LOL

@telepheedian I love purple!

@jqubed Aww, that is so beautiful.

@cranky1950 #830065 FTW.

@Shrdlu Gee thanks, an earworm song. No sleep for me tonight, I'll be singing this over and over. Argh!

@Barney

@mfladd So, if I get past the "Start Wearing Purple" song and fall asleep, I can start having nightmares about this. Wonderful.

@Barney You are welcome! ;-} It was stuck in my brain (and will be for the next week or so), and I thought I'd share. I first heard this (several years ago) in the credits of the excellent film, "Everything is Illuminated" (and one of the roles is played by the lead singer of Gogol Bordello, Eugene Hutz).

http://www.amazon.com/Everything-Illuminated-Elijah-Wood/dp/B000DWMN2S/

It's just such a compelling piece of music, nearly irresistible.

@Barney

@heartny I'm a lot scared lately. Do you think Harold will let me borrow his purple crayon?

@Barney Here is a box o purple crayons all of your own!!

@mikibell Aww, thanks. I love purple.

@jaremelz Beautiful.

@thismyusername Can I stop holding my breath now? I think I'm turning purple.

@Barney heheh this made me laugh..not at you..the other day, I swear it was newbie day everywhere I went. I had to have an x-ray, and after much fussing of the newbie, the real tech determined I was all set. They went into the protected room and instructed me to breathe out, breathe in, hold. The tech went on to explain something to the newbie, and I didn't hear the x-ray click. So I stood there holding my breath, waiting, until the tech realized what was wrong and yelled abruptly, in the middle of her explanation, "Breathe!". What a strange week it has been!

@mikibell This is so funny. A couple of weeks ago, I had to have a renal ultrasound. And yep, they told me to hold my breath and forgot to tell me to breathe. It's true, I really can turn purple. Hey, maybe we go to the same medical places?

@mfladd Well that escalated slowly.

@mfladd Meanie.

@Barney Ignore him.

@jaremelz Ooh, a giant purple outhouse!

@Barney ;)~ Ok, then I will leave you with this for the morning.

(but I still like my purple nightmares)

@mfladd Purple should not give nightmares. I LOVE purple.

@Barney The yin and yang of purple. But you know me. No one is safe :)

p.s. can you give me an update?

@Pavlov Hmm, I can't get it to load.

@Barney

The lilac chaser is a visual illusion, also known as the Pac-Man illusion. It consists of 12 lilac (or pink, rose or magenta), blurred discs arranged in a circle (like the numbers on a clock), around a small black, central cross on a grey background. One of the discs disappears briefly (for about 0.1 seconds), then the next (about 0.125 seconds later), and the next, and so on, in a clockwise direction. When one stares at the cross for about 20 seconds or so, one sees three different things:

• A gap running around the circle of lilac discs;
• A green disc running around the circle of lilac discs in place of the gap;
• The green disc running around on the grey background, with the lilac discs having disappeared in sequence.

The chaser effect results from the phi phenomenon illusion, combined with an afterimage effect in which an opposite, complementary, colour—green—appears when each lilac spot disappears (if the discs were blue, one would see yellow), and Troxler's fading of the lilac discs.

@Pavlov I see the green disc and you have also given me Excedrin Headache Number 102. Thank you.

@heartny Uh, oh, I'm in trouble... I think I just flunked purple school.

@pooflady Yup - even the flashing lights were purple . . .

@Pavlov I own a flashing purple light.

@Pavlov Purple is also the color for Alzheimer's awareness.

Edit: Whoa! Where did your comment go?

@Barney Server hiccuped and I didn't put it back . . .

March 26 is Purple Day!

@jqubed The one with the purple iris is intriguing. However, I think I like the purple lake and trees. Uh, I’m a computer idiot, how do I put a wallpaper picture on my computer?

@Barney A lot of times you can do it from your web browser just by right-clicking on the picture and clicking a menu item that says something like “Set as desktop background” or something similar. It’s safer, though, to actually download the picture to your computer; that way if you change your desktop at any time you’ll still have the picture and can change back in the future. Again, right-click on the picture and click a menu item that will say something like “Save Image As…” or something similar. Then go to the folder where you save the picture and usually if you right-click on it there’s usually an item that says “Set as desktop background”. If you need more specific instructions, tell me if you’re using Windows (7, 8, 10?) or Mac OS and what web browser you use.

@jqubed Thanks for the info. Since it looks like we are going to get blasted off the face of the earth today by the nasty weather, if I’m around, I’ll check into this tomorrow?

@Barney Stay safe!

@jqubed Aw, thanks. Doesn’t look much like tornadoes today – just lots of rain, lightening, big hail and pestilence.

@melanie413 I like you!

@msklzannie And are you wearing your purple Meh shirt?

@Barney Sorry, but no. (I do have all the colors though.) Instead, it’s to accent one of the colors in this dress for Sunday: http://s7d9.scene7.com/is/image/JCPenney/DP0114201617060095M?$product_pdp$
The shirt I’m wearing is instead http://shirt.woot.com/offers/souvenir-shirt?ref=cnt_ctlg_dgn_2

@msklzannie I love that dress! Good choice for the purple nail polish to go with it.

Right now, I’m wearing Woot’s Pandamonium

@jbartus That is way cool. Is it hard to do? I am computer dumb.

@Barney I could make it happen, Let me ponder the ramifications and consider whether or not it’s a good idea.

@jbartus That’s okay. It is pretty though.

@Barney I didn’t say no, just that I needed to contemplate the potential consequences

@jbartus Well, it sounds too complicated to me…

@Barney still around?

@jbartus I love it! Thank you, thank you, thank you. (I installed the Heliotrope Edition. I didn’t see this post until some time later.)

@jbartus I went back and installed the Barney Edition – Barney Edition – that makes me feel warm and fuzzy and loved.

@jbartus So, I’ve been using this for a while now and this leads me to say:

You are my Super Hero.