In which rachelmanija encounters The Beast

[oyceter]

The Beast has been hanging on my lamp by the couch since I got him (I understand that this makes no sense unless you've seen the picture). When yuneicorn came over for one of the first times, she sat nicely down on the couch for a while, and I figured I'd show off all my stuffies (Bob the Armadillo now has an honored spot on top of her head). So I very nicely said, "Hey, check out the Beast!" and sort of motioned in the direction of the Beast, whose very large and very red jaws were pointed at about face level.

yuneicorn obediently turned to the Beast and promptly jumped, startled.

"You do that on purpose to scare your guests!" she accused me (nicely, since she is nice).

"Ehm. No I don't!" said I. Upon second thought, "But that's a great thought! We must try this on K.!" (K. is yuneicorn's roommate.) This was generally agreed upon to be a Good Plan.

The next time K. was over, we sat her down nicely on the couch and politely introduced her to the Beast, eagerly awaiting a jump of some kind. K. very complacently reached over and patted the Beast on his furry yet ferocious head, nodded, and said, "Oh how nice."

Disappoinment all around!

I had totally forgotten about the Beast and my grand but rather doomed plan to introduce him to other people until rachlemanija came over for the second time and was sitting there. (And really, I only remembered because I was introducing her to Mervin the Frog and Bob the Armadillo at the same time).

The Beast (as can be seen in photo linked above) sort of clings to the lamp via his large jaws, but since the center of balance is a little off, over time, he migrates so that his head is pointed at the ceiling. I like to pretend that he is secretly hunting spiders or something.

Anyhow, that's how he was when Rachel was there, and probably looked somewhat like a large, furry, white blob attached to a lamp at eye level.

"Check out the Beast!" I told Rachel, with fannishly standing by the side in anticipation.

"Eh?" said Rachel. "Oh, huh, a rabbit on your lamp!" she said, looking rather puzzled as to why a furry white rabbit on my lamp was noteworthy of comment.

fannishly and I looked at each other, disappointed.

Rachel continued to examine the Beast, slowly turning him around the lamp with her finger in his mouth.

"Inters....GYAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" said Rachel, as she jumped about three feet in the air. "He has jaws! My finger was in his mouth!!!!!!!"

"He's the Monty Python rabbit!" I explained in delight. well, I attempted to, since mostly both me and Angela were doubled over with laughter, and I was having a hard time getting two words out of my mouth because I was laughing so hard.

Comments

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Ha! I'm so glad you wrote this up, it cracked me up.

From the angle it was at when I was on the sofa, I thought the red was a ribbon around its neck, not the inside of its gaping jaws.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Sorry for not having an especially entertaining reaction, but I'd spotted it earlier and thought "Oh, hey, the vorpal bunny from Holy Grail," and then went on to other things. :D

[oyceter]

Alas, I sort of figured. It's ok, I think it's going to be pretty hard to top Rachel's reaction@

[oyceter]

*snoooooooork*

I just love that big pause between examining the rabbit and leaping off the couch!!

[chi-zu.livejournal.com]

This story. Is AWESOME.

Thank you for sharing.

[oyceter]

Hee, I know!!!

[livinglaurel.livejournal.com]

"Ehm. No I don't!" said I. Upon second thought, "But that's a great thought! We must try this on K.!"

Haaaaah.

[canandagirl.livejournal.com]

(teeheehee) Makes me want to find one and put it on her table, so it's the first thing she'd see when she walks through the door, but that's because I'm evil and will go to the 5th level of hell when I die. I have a reputation to uphold, you know.

[oyceter]

*sneeeerk*

That would be so funny!