Leprechauns
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deviImagine 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.
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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.
- 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.
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Date: 2004-09-15 07:06 am (UTC)Knee-high, live underground, appear on the surface through holes in trees, mischievous (either malevolently or benignly, depending on mood), difficult to catch, dress in various shades of green (shirt, waistcoat, breeches, shoes with buckles, hat with shamrock), smoke pipes, cheerful.
- What's the first thing that comes to mind when you think of a leprechaun?
The above description, together with having to give up all their gold if caught.
- Would you buy a used car from a leprechaun?
No.
- Would you sleep with a leprechaun?
Only if he promised still to love me in the morning.
- Would you ever take a leprechaun seriously?
No, hence also technically making the answer to the above also "No"!