Bored and a little confused - Spring Heeled Jack by Zoot

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Bored and a little confused - Spring Heeled Jack
Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Well, I’m at work and should by rights be doing something complicated to a Share Sale Agreement, but why while away my time being a lawyer when I could be reading Firefly posts instead –sigh!

I am so bored! Obsession is nine tenths of the law (no wait, that’s wrong) and I clearly have the obsessive gene in spades, but I think law is possibly the most boring career in the world . . . If I didn’t have to go to work I’d finish my novel, honest (or maybe I’d just do impossible levels of research on the internet . . .)

Just came across Spring Heeled Jack – a historical London figure I’d heard about before but not really looked into . . . Just before Jack the Ripper started terrorising the London slums, Spring Heeled Jack used to jump out at people, wearing a mask with horns and flaming red eyes, blow blue flame at them and then leap off – normally evading pursuit by jumping over an impossibly high wall or such – superb!!
This is the career I want – there must be an opening for terrorising the London populous – but in such an old fashioned way – almost gentlemanly, you might say . . .

Anyone know were I can get a costume?

Apparently – if you just attach heavy springs to your feet and try and jump you tend to break your ankles so not sure what SHJ did . . . Anybody know the mechanics involved?

Still bored . . Back to looking up Firefly posts, I guess, or possibly some drafting - erk . . ..

How long till the BDM?? (says Instant Gratification Girl (note to self: good superhero character)) . . .

COMMENTS

Thursday, March 31, 2005 10:16 PM

ZOOT

MWP - not just you - but I like "a little" dirty . . ..

TWG - Am thinking IGG costume would have lost of pockets - if you desire instant grat. you gotta have places to store things - e.g. flask of tea (in my defence, I'm English - and you really have NO idea what its like to be in desperate need of a cuppa); sunglasses; one way ticket to Zanzibar; caballa instructions for constructing a Golem; chesse - multiple; and John Irving books . . .

But maybe that's just me - you get the idea though, right?

Thursday, March 31, 2005 9:54 AM

MANWITHPEZ

Is it just me, or is any phrase that contains gratification and girl in it just sound dirty...Oh wait, its just me.

(Slowly backing away amid shocked silence)

Thursday, March 31, 2005 9:46 AM

THATWEIRDGIRL

i love it!

Instant Gratification Girl

wow. what's her costume look like? no cape, capes are dangerous.

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