[ November 30, 2004, 06:49 PM: Message edited by: Intelligence3 ]
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Not even a link to a picture of Smaug?
Here's one. Posted by jebus202 (Member # 2524) on :
Um... Smaug never blew fire at his own treasure...
He would have MELTED it then...
He wouldn't do that because he loves treasure.
Posted by Tater (Member # 7035) on :
How quickly we forget our favorite dragon:
PUFF THE MAGIC DRAGON!! Raaa Sing it with me now:
quote:Puff, the magic dragon, lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honalee. Little Jackie Paper loved that rascal Puff And brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff, oh
Puff, the magic dragon, lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honalee. Puff, the magic dragon, lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honalee.
Together they would travel on boat with billowed sail Jackie kept a lookout perched on Puff's gigantic tail Noble kings and princes would bow whene'er they came Pirate ships would lower their flags when Puff roared out his name, oh
Puff, the magic dragon, lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honalee. Puff, the magic dragon, lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honalee.
A dragon lives forever, but not so little boys Painted wings and giants's rings make way for other toys. One grey night it happened, Jackie Paper came no more And Puff that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar.
His head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like rain Puff no longer went to play along the cherry lane. Without his lifelong friend, Puff could not be brave So, Puff that mighty dragon sadly slipped into his cave, oh
Puff, the magic dragon, lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honalee. Puff, the magic dragon, lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honalee.
I think I had a Puff doll. But I was so young, I can't remember if it was the real thing, or just a knock-off that my parents lied to me about. It was a pale green color and you put baby powder in it, and squeezed its belly and it would shoot out some powder. Tell me, did they make such things? And were they real "Puff the magic dragons"? I hope so, otherwise my childhood will be ruined! Posted by sarcasticmuppet (Member # 5035) on :
dadada daaaaaa
dadada daaaaaa
dadada da da da da dada
dumdumdumdumdumdumdumdum...
Trogdor was a man! Trogdor was a dragon-man well, he was just a...dragon But he was still TROGDOOOOOOOR!! *dadada daaaaaa dadada daaaaaa dadada da da da da dada*
*lights a candle for the departed Trogdor*
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
quote:I think I had a Puff doll. But I was so young, I can't remember if it was the real thing, or just a knock-off that my parents lied to me about. It was a pale green color and you put baby powder in it, and squeezed its belly and it would shoot out some powder. Tell me, did they make such things? And were they real "Puff the magic dragons"? I hope so, otherwise my childhood will be ruined! [Smile]
I have a stuffed Puff that we got at a Peter Paul & Mary concert this past summer. No baby powder tummies, though. He's soooooooo cute!
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
Puff was always one of my favorite songs. Still is! I sang it in a cabaret in January, and brought my little sister up for a duet in the second verse. I made my best friend cry. I loooove that song!!
I also had the movie when I was little, I would watch it several times a day.
Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
Hey, I like Dragon. She's cool, and is a circus freak
-Bok
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Here's a question for all you fantasy readers:
Traditionally, dragons are evil, and unicorns are good.
There have been a *LOT* of stories written about how dragons aren't *all* bad, etc. etc..
Are there any stories out there about evil unicorns?
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
Black Unicorns? There was a book about one, but I can't remember if it was evil...
Also, a lot of books don't say they are good, but rather some sort of primordial magical beings to whom good and evil don't apply. They would kill anyone other than a virgin, remember?
[ December 01, 2004, 11:43 AM: Message edited by: Kwea ]
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
There is the book The Black Unicorn by Terry Brooks, but IIRC, it's just an uber-special unicorn, not an evil one.
There's also a black unicorn in the anime The 13 Kingdoms (Juni Koki?), but he pretty much just looks different.
I've never heard that they won't kill virgins, but I've heard that they'll only let virgins ride them.
Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :
Why thanks Bok!
(and really, intelligence, I'm not that scary... am I?)
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Actually, I haven't heard of any stories involving actively evil unicorns.
People have a habit of looking for good elements in even the worst characters, but they tend to have a blind spot for assigning negative aspects to traditionally good characters.
-Trevor
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
I think I shall write a story about an evil unicorn. What should her side-kick be... a nasty, animate rainbow?
[ December 01, 2004, 04:17 PM: Message edited by: ElJay ]
Posted by Intelligence3 (Member # 6944) on :
I had considered making a unicorn/rainbow crack, but thought it wasn't as funny as I wanted.
You found the funny.
Posted by Intelligence3 (Member # 6944) on :
Oh, and Dragon, Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
I was serious!!! :pout: Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
The unicorn's evil sidekick should be a BUNNY!
quote:bunnies aren't just cute as everybody supposes They got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses And what's with all the carrots? What do they need such good eyesight for anyway? Bunnies, bunnies It must be bunnies
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Bring forth, yon Holy Handgrenade!
-Trevor
Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :
Well, that's always an option, but lecturing people about their moral inferiority and the resulting guilty spiral can often lead the victim to do the dirty deed themselves. It's a great power that the vegan paragons of virtue wield.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Really? Those kinds of lectures always just make me reach for a bacon cheeseburger.
-Trevor
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
There's a book called The Black Unicorn by an author named... Uhhh... Tanith Lee. I liked it. The second and third were good too. I don't have it anymore, but I still have the other two. I want another copy of that book.
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
See, yeah, the evil bunny's been done.
My rainbow will be original.
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
I like the idea of a rainbow that steals your SOUL. Like you go to the end to find gold and you are SUCKED DRY...
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
You mean they don't?
It's a trick like the will o'wisp that leprachauns use to lure unsuspecting mortals into their world.
It seems the wee people need fresh blood to fill their ranks...
-Trevor
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
Maybe the rainbow IS your soul... Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
Excellent, you're writing my book proposal for me... *rubshands* *takesnotes*
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
It's safe to say you're souled on the idea, El?
-Trevor
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
Which one is writing your proposal? Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
Both. I'm gonna mush all the ideas together into one super-proposal. After all, if one Hatracker is good, two must be better, neh?
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
Good idea.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Where have all the Buffy fans gone? Long time passing... Where have all the Buffy fans gone? Long, long time ago. Where have all the Buffy fans gone? Gone to Angel fans every one? When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?
Where have all the Angel fans gone? Long time passing... Where have all the Angel fans gone? Long, long time ago. Where have all the Angel fans gone? Gone nowhere 'cause they cancelled that too, the sons of ...
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
*pat pat*
Posted by Eduardo_Sauron (Member # 5827) on :
*Misses Buffy Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
*Liked Angel more, but still misses both*
Dragons are the coooooooolest......mystical beings.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Depends on who's getting mushed together - some people would be a scary combination.
Can you imagine Tom with my chin?
-Trevor
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
There's a short story by an Australian writer Nick Earls in which an unicorn gores a woman with his horn. Intentionally.
I don't know if you could describe the story as featuring an evil unicorn though - it's a fairly surreal piece of fiction where the unicorn flatmates with the narrator and the gored girl.
There is a faint memory stirring in my mind though of an evil unicorn story... can't pin it down for the life of me though. Hmmm, will think some more.
(Dagonee - Tony and I are re-working our way through Buffy season 2 at the moment. Re-watching after having seen seasons 6 and 7 makes us realise again how truly clever Joss Weddon is. )
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
quote: Can you imagine Tom with my chin?
Nope. 'Cause while I've met Tom in person on multiple occasions, I've never even seen a picture of you. Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Never having seen Tom but having cut myself shaving many times, I can assure you it wouldn't be a pretty picture.
-Trevor
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
I've been sitting here racking my brains and I still can't remember the story I'm thinking of.
This is going to irritate me for the rest of the day.
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
Well then I'll take your word for it. :flounces off:
Edit: s-i-g-h. My being snotty looks funny when you go and post in front of me, imogen.
[ December 01, 2004, 11:21 PM: Message edited by: ElJay ]
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Sorry El - I'll make more of an effort to get a picture taken and posted somewhere.
Although at the rate I'm going, I might as well put it on a Wanted Poster and be done with it.
-Trevor
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
I'm just playin' with ya, Trevor. It was a funny, I don't mean to pressure you. And I certainly don't want you to think I some sort of weird-o stalker. I'm just nosey. Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
And there I thought you were flouncing at me. I felt special.
Sadly dis-illusioned.
*flounces quietly to herself*
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Oh, I know El - believe me, I'm not the sort people stalk.
I was just too tired to put in the appropriate smiley face - playing email tag with someone and it's well past my bedtime.
-Trevor
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
I'm sure El would love to flounce at you Imogen - I think I'm just about flounced out.
-Trevor
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
imogen, I will flounce at you any time :waggleseyebrows: Especially if you go back to signing all your posts with a at the end, I snicker everytime I think about that.
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
(Edit: to Dagonee) Oh yes, that was the Nick Earls one.
But I am sure I have read another story (by another author) with an evil unicorn. I think it raped a girl. But I can't remember the title, author, specific plot or even if it really existed.
(And I am loath to plug that particular combination of words into google. Especially given I am at work)
[ December 01, 2004, 11:33 PM: Message edited by: imogen ]
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
Really ElJay? Oh goody!
*prepares for some quality flouncing*
imogen Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
<derail>
So, Hatrack doesn't have graemlins for the actions I want to use all the time. Besides flouncing off and waggling my eyebrows at every opportunity, I want to be able to bat my eyelashes innocently when I'm denying things. I'm sure there's others, but I can't remember them right now.
Edit to add: And if the waggling eyebrows one had a Groucho Marx-type cigar thing going, too, that would be a bonus!
</derail>
[ December 01, 2004, 11:39 PM: Message edited by: ElJay ]
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
::flounceflounce::
::flounce::
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
quote:And I am loath to plug that particular combination of words into google.
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
I think I'd like a raised-eyebrows-affected-innocence-I-have-no-idea-what-you're-talking-about graemlin.
I'd also like a raising one eyebrow graemlin, but I feel that would be cheating as I can't do that in real life. Because, you know, all the other graemlins have such a physical resemblance to my actions.
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
See, I raise my eyebrows when I'm being suggestive, not when I'm faking innocent. I can't raise just one, either. So I guess I couldn't use that one...
[ December 01, 2004, 11:50 PM: Message edited by: ElJay ]
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
So maybe I could just use the batting eyelashes one for the same affect.
I tend not to bat my eyelashes though. I tried once and got asked if I had something in my eye. It sorta convinced me that I must not be doing it right.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Hey, Imogen - if you can turn yellow, shrink to the size of a smilie and plaster yourself on a computer screen in person...damn, that's one heck of a party trick.
-Trevor
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
Trevor - I sure can. I'm the yellow smilie equivalent of choo choo bear.
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
You gotta kinda lower your chin and cock your head to one side and bat them fast three times, pause, and then twice more a -liiiittle- slower. That way it's so outrageous no one can mistake it for anything other than "I can't imagine you'd think such a thing of little ol' me."
I went through my photo directory to see if I had a pic that kinda looked like flouncing that I could link to, but no such luck.
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
ohhhh.
I'm practising right now. (My co-workers are looking on curiously).
I'm going to try it on Tony tonight!
[ December 01, 2004, 11:54 PM: Message edited by: imogen ]
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
*bat-bat-bat*
*bat--bat--bat*
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
*Sigh*
You're going to make yourself...wait for it...batty.
On that note, g'night all.
-Trevor
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
*giggle*
Seeing it typed out makes it look like I put waaaaay too much thought in it. I actually had to stop and do it to figure out the "technique." But no-one has ever thought I had something in my eye... I usually get more of a "Don't TRY that with me..." or "I'm not buying that for an instant."
So either it's not effective or all my friends know me too well.
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
'Night T!
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
Oh, I *like* it. I'm going to practice all afternoon. *grin*
Night Trevor!
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
*giggle* imogen, I want to invite you over for a slumber party so we can drink girly drinks, paint our toenails, and practice batting our eyelashes.
Pity about the whole different-continents thing.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Can I join you two?
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
The more the merrier! But you hafta bring your own pillow.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Deal!
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
*brings extra pillow*
*bops ElJay over the head with it, then sits on it and looks innocent*
*bats eyelashes*
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
I'll forgive you, since that's kinda what I had in mind anyway. So.... for the girlie drinks, is all distilled liqueur kosher, or should I be careful what I serve? Or lessee, I could make champagne cocktails. :rummages for booze and glitter nailpolish:
This would be way more fun then going to work tomorrow.
[ December 02, 2004, 01:05 AM: Message edited by: ElJay ]
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
Oh, I'm so in (and back from lunch).
Champagne cocktails sound pretty darn good to me. I'll bring face masks so we can sit around looking like green clay monsters for a bit.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Actually, distilling is MORE likely to make it problematic, not less. But many brand-name liqueurs are kosher -- as well as a fair amount of Brand X stuff.
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
Cooooool.
I'm wondering what I3 is going to think when he comes back and sees what we've done to his little joke thread.
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
Probably get upset he's not invited to the girly-boozy-toenail painty batting party.
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
rivka, I have at least 6 selections from that list in my cabinet. We're golden. Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
*hic*
*bat-bat-bat* *hic*
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
hey, imogen, if you're "borrowing" credit card numbers in that other thread we can go on-line shopping, too!
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
*hopeful* Do you have Frangelico?
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
I do! I'll bring it.
ElJay - it's a date. Amazon.com here we come! (How dorky is it that books are the first thing I think of buying with borrowed credit cards?)
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
Yup. Along with Disaronno, two of the bourbons, at least one each of the rums, scotches, and tequillas.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Oooh, I haven't had Disaronno in ages -- I usually buy a less expensive amaretto. I'm not a huge fan of bourbon, and less of one of scotch and tequila, but between the nutty ones and the rum, I'm happy!
Got any pineapple?
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
Hmmmm. No pineapple. We'll have to invite maui babe.
imogen... not dorky... but we could do a lot more damage a lot faster if we wanted to.
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
Whoa. You don't mess around.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
No one really needs $600 shoes. But I think this is exactly what I've been wanting. Too bad it's out of the Gift Exchange price range.
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
Okay, it's been fun, but it's way past my bedtime. We'll have to do it for real sometime... except for the shopping-with-other-people's-credit-cards part.
*yawn*
*hic*
:flounce:
Edit to add: Of course I don't need $600 shoes. Need comes into it where? Also, we had a Tiffany's open in town this year. I haven't gone yet. I don't think the drool would go well with the setting.
[ December 02, 2004, 01:56 AM: Message edited by: ElJay ]
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Sweet dreams, ElJay. Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
Going now. Really.
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
Good night ElJay. Flounce well. Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
O_o This thread got really weird while I was gone...
Back on the original topic (or whatever) in Tamora Pierce's Immortals series, there's a unicorn or pegasus analogue called a hurrok, which is basically a horse with pointy teeth and claws and bat wings. Can't remember whether it had a horn...
Posted by Intelligence3 (Member # 6944) on :
What happened to my dobie? Oooh, slumber party, never mind. Carry on!
Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
I have a dragon in my woods. Lately, I've become quite enamored with dragons.
Anyone who comes to my May Revel this year at Dragonwood is welcome to visit my dragon.
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
:flounce:
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :
quote: Lately, I've become quite enamored with dragons
![[Angst]](graemlins/angst.gif)
![[No No]](graemlins/nono.gif)
How quickly we forget our favorite dragon:![[Smile]](smile.gif)
![[ROFL]](graemlins/rofl.gif)
![[Wink]](wink.gif)
![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
![[Cry]](graemlins/cry.gif)
![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
![[Mad]](mad.gif)
This is going to irritate me for the rest of the day.
![[Frown]](frown.gif)
Sadly dis-illusioned.![[Taunt]](graemlins/taunt.gif)
![[Cool]](cool.gif)
![[Evil]](graemlins/evil.gif)
![[Embarrassed]](redface.gif)