Taking Sides: Pelicans vs. Leprechauns

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Both can be nasty if cornered....

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 8 November 2002 18:48 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...

I can't believe this went unread! I'm gonna take pelicans.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 03:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Penguins

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 14 January 2003 08:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Pelicans easy! When I was a kid I thought pelicans were so cool!

― James Blount, Tuesday, 14 January 2003 08:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, pelicans gobble up pigeons in St. James's Park, so they've got to be cool. They come up behind them, then scoop, gulp, bye bye pigeon.

I think they were removed from the park at one stage because ppl found the above depressing. But fortunately they were brought back.

The only time I've ever seen them in their wild state was on the Gulf of Mexico and it was good to see them actually in the water rather than standing rather lamely beside it.

Do leprechauns have any good points? They are mean (share that gold out, guys!) and elusive (finding the end of the rainbbow is worse than finding the Butchers Arms in Headington).

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 10:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Can't pelicans break your arm with one blow of their wing? I mean, they look about as hard as swans to me.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 18:07 (twenty-three years ago)

"Yes, pelicans gobble up pigeons in St. James's Park, so they've got to be cool. They come up behind them, then scoop, gulp, bye bye pigeon." - Pelicans are so cool!

― James Blount, Tuesday, 14 January 2003 19:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Pelicans have not yet endorsed a brand of breakfast cereal. Which to me means the pelicans are getting by just fine, unlike leprechauns, who have seen fit to debase themselves in the national marketplace to preserve their absurd standard of living - which means that pelicans win, because I prefer a dignified champion, not some hoarding race of mythological Madison Ave. whores.

― Tom Millar (Millar), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 00:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Leprechauns. 'Cuz pelicans have fish breath...ewwww!

― , Wednesday, 15 January 2003 01:33 (twenty-three years ago)

pelichauns

― Kim (Kim), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 01:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Pelicans, because Haircut One Hundred didn't have an album named Leprechaun West.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 01:41 (twenty-three years ago)

aka, the poem that Yeats never wrote.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 02:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Although admittedly he should have. It could have featured Jennifer Aniston cowering in fear.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 02:51 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.chez.com/nbcfriends/ja/jalp04.jpg

"Sorry, Jennifer, I had to outrun the Black and Tans."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 02:54 (twenty-three years ago)

...and let's not forget that there's not such a thing as a leprechaun crossing, tho if there was it would prolly be a multicoloured arched footbridge.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 08:58 (twenty-three years ago)

I am positively freaked out by having no idea why I started this thread.

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 09:06 (twenty-three years ago)

coz you can, donut.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 09:17 (twenty-three years ago)

leprechauns of course, because they are cute and irish and wear fun hats! pelicans are just cute.

― sand.y, Thursday, 16 January 2003 01:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I want Spanish leprechauns.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 January 2003 01:46 (twenty-three years ago)

lepricanos?

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 16 January 2003 02:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Tempting.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 January 2003 03:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Pelicans have not yet endorsed a brand of breakfast cereal. Which to me means the pelicans are getting by just fine

Isn't that a pelican hawking those Vlassic pickles, though? Or is that some other type of bird?

This is brilliant, db. Except that it's clearly pelicans all the way. From now on I am basing my answers to these sorts of questions entirely on how cool it would be as an answer in a New York Times crossword puzzle. "Leprechaun" would be cool but too easy -- not too many words are spelt like that. "Pelican", though -- wow! That's Saturday material.

― Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 16 January 2003 03:59 (twenty-three years ago)

A stork endorses Vlasic pickles. Pelicans don't play that shit.

― James Blount, Thursday, 16 January 2003 04:08 (twenty-three years ago)

vlasic sounds like a weird cross between plastic and vasectomy. or something.

― sand.y, Thursday, 16 January 2003 04:19 (twenty-three years ago)

or Russian vomit.

there's an odd monument in the quad of one of the colleges here in Oxford (Corpus Christi) that has a pelican stabbing itslef in the breast with its bill and drawing blood. So, tho I have little truck with leprechauns at least I can say that (as far as I know) they don't self-harm.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 16 January 2003 09:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Pelican published more books than Leprechaun, far as I know.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 16 January 2003 18:27 (twenty-three years ago)

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