What's A Meta For? - Deja Vu
Cruising down the road, yesterday, I spotted a leprechaun in neon pants, with a ferret on his head, fishing off of a freeway overpass. Sidling up to him rather slowly, so as not to alarm him, I quietly asked, “Are you aware that this is an overpass and the only thing you’re likely to catch is a bus?”
“That’s okay”, he replied, “I’m just a metaphor, anyway. I’m surprised you stopped.”
“But I’m looking right at you”, I told him.
“Yes”, he said. “But some people mistake me for a simile, or look right past me and don’t see me at all.”
“How could they not see you?”, I asked. “You’re as plain as the nose on …that ferret’s face.”
He just shrugged his good shoulder, “No lepripheral vision, I suppose.”
We chatted for a while of imaginary weasels and inert gaseous trousers, but something else had been gnawing at me during the entire exchange and before I turned to leave I spoke up. “I couldn’t help noticing that you’re not using any bait.”
“Bait?!” he shouted. “You want people to think I’m nuts?!
I wanted to ask him what he meant, but traffic was beginning to back up behind my unicorn.
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I can't help but wonder: you said he shrugged his 'good' shoulder. What happened to his other one? Also, I happen to own a pair of inert gaseous trousers. Is there a market for those?
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Perhaps nothing happened to it. I just noticed that it stubbornly refused to shrug; it may have just been feeling particularly contrary that day.
As for the trousers, try ebay. I hear there is a casino in Vegas that will buy, practically, anything.
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You might have offended him by asking about bait. I'm pretty sure all leprechauns are fly fishermen.
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You're probably right. But who knows what kind of a response I'd have gotten if I'd asked about his fly?
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Between Keebler elves and fashionable leprechauns you sure have some interesting travel routes.
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Tell me about it. And this was on the main highway...I'm afraid to take the back roads.
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