The purple cow initially became famous as a chimerical referent in a short humorous verse, but has since come to refer to a diverse range of other things, including sports teams, food, wine, and tobacco products, as well as marketing practices in general. Yet all these examples retain the common theme of a sense of something out of the ordinary. Purple Cow is the name of a well-known poem by Gelett Burgess, written in 1895: It was often quoted, and many of his contemporaries aped the poem.

One such example, by Englishman Robert S. Kane, typically lacked quite the same bouncy panache:

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