Comments on: The Alabamian Tree Leprechaun

By: copernicus

copernicus — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 16:39:57 +0000

I have a pretty horrible feeling that “cocky” is the mot juste all right.

By: foolhardy

foolhardy — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 13:58:42 +0000

The former, but the latter certainly has promise. Is it not a bit cocky though? I wouldn’t want to put them off.

By: Londoner

Londoner — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 13:31:07 +0000

“have you seen my friend James Last?”
It works a treat.

or
“have you seen my friend James Last? It works a treat.”
?

By: foolhardy

foolhardy — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 13:14:08 +0000

Copernicus,
I remember the incident well. That was when I finally realised my approach was all wrong. Much muttering of “if only I knew then what I know now” followed. I’ve since changed tack dramatically and instead lead with the line “have you seen my friend James Last?”
It works a treat.

By: foolhardy

foolhardy — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 11:14:58 +0000

It was the kid. The witch, though, wanted that kid’s flute real bad.
As for Puffinstuff, he wasn’t that musical but it seems he liked it very much when things got rough.
An odd bunch.

By: Londoner

Londoner — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 08:13:09 +0000

didn’t hr puffinstuff have a magic flute? or the kid, or something?

By: copernicus

copernicus — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 12:21:47 +0000

As if by magic.

By: copernicus

copernicus — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 12:21:17 +0000

Doesn’t foolhardy have a very different meaning for “magic flute”? I’m pretty sure I overheard him asking a girl in a dark corner of Feet First in Galway if she wanted to see it, then there was a scream, the pistol crack of hand smacking face, and she was gone.

By: fústar

fústar — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 12:07:07 +0000

Hmm…you may be right, and I may have wronged our paranormal flautist friend.

You’re definitely right about the suckiness of American news though…it’s bloody hard not to watch without cringing every 30 seconds…

By: copernicus

copernicus — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 11:55:39 +0000

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say I’m pretty sure that combat guy with the magic flute said his flack jacket could “ward of spells” rather than smells.

See, not so crazy after all.

Man, the American news sucks though. Talk about editorialising - not to mention failing on an epic scale to get the joke, or at least not the right joke.

By: fústar

fústar — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:01:06 +0000

Incidentally, the ‘amateur drawing’ in question reminded me of a vaguely similar figure I spotted in a photo I took of the destruction of Limerick’s Savoy Cinema last year.

What it tells us is probably that simulacra can be found in places where rough and uneven shapes abound, but I thought I’d share it with all you Leprechaun/Alien chasers out there.

Here’s the original image, totally unedited. See if you can spot anything. It’s like a paranormal “Where’s Wally?” (you may have to zoom in).

By: fústar

fústar — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:29:55 +0000

How did I know you’d be the first to comment on this devo? Regular fústarers may recall that it was this ‘devo’ who dragged me to a film fair in Camden to buy a DVD copy of the very same Leprechaun in the Hood. Not only that, but he forced me to watch it in its entirety. I’m hardly the better of it yet…

By: devo

devo — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:25:45 +0000

It’s not the first time the little pests have been spotted in the hood making shoes and fretting about their finances. Sightings are so frequent that there have been TWO movies made about the subject (‘leprechaun in da hood’ and ‘leprechaun back 2 da muthafeckin hood’ (or something).

These two ‘masterpieces’ will either shed some light on the situation, or, most likely, are the cause.