@tsarstepan,
tsarstepan - Q. What exactly is the Purple Rain that Prince wrote an entire album and movie about?
A: This is an allusion to Royalty, purple long being the colour associated with those of (supposed) Royal blood... when a little tacker, Prince was taken to a dyeing facility and saw pure linen that had been dyed purple being suspended from rollers high up in the ceiling... as the dye dripped down all over him, Prince suddenly realised that he was being set up for a role in the movie 'The Colour Purple', and he had been anointed by what he termed 'Purple Rain'... of course this is all conjecture, but makes sense to me!
Q: That well known dispeller of falsehoods, Cucker Tarlson, is now available for a new line of employment... should Cucker look for a new line of work?