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devi ([personal profile] devi) wrote2006-03-22 12:38 pm

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My bike was stolen last weekend. Which sucks, but there's no point crying over spilt bike. At least it was cheap. And the point of this post is not to whinge, but to tell you that right now I am answering an ad in Daily Info for a "Small Female Mountain".

(What makes a mountain female? What gender is, say, Mount Fuji? Or the Matterhorn? Actually that one's easy. How small is small? The size of an Irish mountain? Is it a bonsai mountain? Otherwise, how the hell am I going to collect it?)

[identity profile] mooism.livejournal.com 2006-03-22 12:52 pm (UTC)(link)
All mountains are female. All volcanos are male. They change gender over time, like, er, I can’t remember which creatures change gender at will or as they age, but yes.

Possibly the other way round.

[identity profile] liriselei.livejournal.com 2006-03-22 04:25 pm (UTC)(link)
seahorses ? several others as well, i think.

i'm reminded of the Henry Normal poem about the mountain, the title of which (having lent out my copy) escapes me...