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[shinyhappygoth]

If you were a ______, what kind of ______ would you be?

Fill in the blanks, then reply (for your pups or yourself).

Comments

tree

[shinyhappygoth]

Let's start this traditionally.

Re: tree

[saphyria.livejournal.com]

I would be a hickory, because I like being useful.

Hickory's a slow-growing hardwood, useful in making sturdy tools, furniture, flooring, providing long-lasting fuel for fireplaces, adding flavor to smoked meats, and provides nuts as food for woodland creatures and (depending on the cultivar) people. ^__^

Re: tree

[ceitfianna]

Will would be an English oak, sturdy and able to be many things that last for a long time.

I think I would be a willow constantly bending and trying not to break and adapting as the wind moves me.

Re: tree

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

A California Sequoia Redwood as they are native to California and grow really tall.

I have no brain space to do my pups right now.

Re: tree

[kd7sov]

I have no idea what kind of tree I would be. Felix is an oak, though, and I think Fluttershy's a willow. Or possibly chestnut, since that's what her Potterverse variant's wand is made of.

Re: tree

[shinyhappygoth]

Or she could be an aspen. ;-)

Re: tree

[filemyclaim]

I am, unequivocally, a birch tree.

Clementine is a palm tree, or an oak with golden leaves in the falltime.

Juliet's a fur tree.

Dixie is a big old showy cherry blossom tree.

sandwich

[shinyhappygoth]

I know, I've done this one before...

Re: sandwich

[saphyria.livejournal.com]

I would be a reuben (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuben_sandwich). Because they are just that damn tasty, with their combination of strong flavors.

...Now I'm hungry.

car

[saphyria.livejournal.com]

Vroom vroom! ^_^

Re: car

[shinyhappygoth]

I would be a pennyfarthing. Just to be perverse.

Re: car

[mogget_cat]

Better start practicing for next year! :D

Re: car

[shinyhappygoth]

Ooooh.

Phobia

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

Since it's that time of year.

Re: Phobia

[a1enzo]

Intriguing. One normally considers what phobias one has, not what phobia one would be.

Enzo, as a Guardian, might be spermophobia (fear of germs, the closest I can easily find to computer viruses).

I'm probably hypengyophobia (fear of responsibility).

Re: Phobia

[saphyria.livejournal.com]

hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

Because as a word it's just clever, dramatic and exaggerated enough to make me like it.

hippopotomo- = huge creature
-monstro- = of monstrous size
-sesquipedalio- = literally "a foot and a half long"
-phobia = fear

Re: Phobia

[shinyhappygoth]

Ah, yes, the old self-referential phobia.

My personal favourite phobia is arachibutyrophobia (fear of having peanut butter stuck to the roof of one's mouth). I don't associate myself with it in any way, though.

Re: Phobia

[saphyria.livejournal.com]

I like that one too!

Also levo/dextrophobia- Fear of things to the left/right side of the body

Because I don't understand it. >_>

(and Phyllophobia, the fear of plant leaves)

Re: Phobia

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

Have to say I like Aphenphosmphobia as it seems fun to say. Don't know that I really have a fear of being touched though. I'd likely be luposlipaphobia, the persistent fear of being pursued by timber wolves around a kitchen table while wearing socks on a newly waxed floor.

Re: Phobia

[shinyhappygoth]

Gary Larson, master of etymology.

Bird

[ceitfianna]

How would you fly?

Re: Bird

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

Red Tailed Hawk. Not out of any deep seated need to be a bird of prey but because they remind me of my childhood. I used to bike everywhere and one of my favorite places was an abandoned barn where a mated pair nested.

Re: Bird

[saphyria.livejournal.com]

Barn swallow. Their aerial acrobatics always look like such fun, and they have such hilariously grumpy faces. ^_^

Re: Bird

[alchemistseraph]

Owl. Specifically thatone today.

Re: Bird

[ceitfianna]

To answer my own question, I think I'd be what's in my icon, a New Zealand fantail. They're hyper and happy birds and the one's that Tiwa's based on. Sometimes I feel like I dash about so much that I wear myself out. This is what they look and sound liek in action.

Re: Bird

[hadyougoing]

I think I might be a parrot. They're flashy and they talk. A lot! And some of them really dig urban living. (Yes. That link is about FERAL PARROT POPULATIONS. In SAN FRANCISCO.)

Plus: WOOKAT IT SOLVE A PUZZLE. AWWWW.

Re: Bird

[ceitfianna]

I saw the movie about those parrots, they're so cool.

Re: Bird

[acts_of_gord]

Oh, I've seen those! Not the ones in SF, the ones in Edgewater, NJ. There's quite a lot of them. Also in Brooklyn, where at least one building owner opted to leave the parrot colony alone on the grounds that while they were there, pigeons would not move in, and while pigeon droppings damaged the building, parrot droppings were chemically much less problematic.

Re: Bird

[acts_of_gord]

As the A-10 Warthog. In the words of the Ruiner of Lives, "You've heard of the Implacable Man? This is the Implacable Plane. The exact amount of parts it can lose and still fly (according to The Other Wiki) include one engine, one tail, most of its fuel supply, and a wing. Basically, half the plane can drop off and you're still good. Hell, forget guns; the Hog has been known to take missile hits and keep going undeterred."

Re: Bird

[filemyclaim]

Clementine is a flying monkey. SHE MAINTAINS THIS OBSTINANTLY.