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 07:12 am (UTC)Irish. Short and gnarly. Male. Potentially wicked and/or mischievous. Forced by tourist board to wear green. May have gold-related custodial duties near rainbows, I'm a bit unclear about that bit.
- What's the first thing that comes to mind when you think of a leprechaun?
Small, Irish and probably grinning.
- Would you buy a used car from a leprechaun?
Of course not. I'd be too tall for any car that had belonged to a leprechaun, and its exhaust would probably fall off come morning.
- Would you sleep with a leprechaun?
Nope. I wouldn't even be comfortable sleeping near one.
- Would you ever take a leprechaun seriously?
Very much so. I wouldn't dare not. Dire things might befall me.