Leprechauns

[devi]

Imagine this is a real poll:

- What are the characteristics of leprechauns?

- What's the first thing that comes to mind when you think of a leprechaun?

- Would you buy a used car from a leprechaun?

- Would you sleep with a leprechaun?

- Would you ever take a leprechaun seriously?

Your opinions are of the most crucial and pressing importance to me....

(edit, since lots of you have answered)

...because lots of people have suddenly started calling me one, and then wondered why I got touchy about it. Thank you all! That's why! Leprechauns are frivolous and devious and greedy and evil, are probably the least glamorous/aspirational of all the supernatural beings, and above all, THEY'RE ALL MEN!. What are they trying to tell me?

And why the sudden leprechaun-comparisons, after three years living in London without any? At first I was Paranoid Chicklit Girl and thought "oh god, I've got fat and leprechauns are chubby", but now I think it may be my lovely new jade-green corduroy jacket which I thought made me look so natty (in a hippy sort of way). Now it seems the thing makes me look like a foot-high middle-aged man. Bah.

On the other hand, bateleur's description of badgers reminds me of me a few years ago in my goth/nocturnal phase. I think I'll be a badger instead.

Comments

[mooism.livejournal.com]

• Short, Irish, male, dress in green (this bit may be the media being unimaginative). Pranksters. Frivolous about everything except self-preservation, protection of their gold.
• Pots of gold at ends of rainbows, vanishing when you find them.
• No (even if I wanted a car).
• About as likely as me, Colin and Jo having a threesome.
• If they were seriously threatened by my enemy.

[kesstrel.livejournal.com]

About as likely as me, Colin and Jo having a threesome.

Now there is an image that will stay with me for far too long. I fear I may need counselling :P

1) tiny and wee, troublesome, green
2) Gold. Disappearing gold.
3) No. It would vanish faster than New Labour policies that people actually like leaving crud behind.
4) Well, although they say it's not the size, it's what you do with it, I'm pretty sure there's a limit even to that... so no.
5) Yup. In an alternative universe where I take New Labour, Tweenies and bananas seriously too.
:)