Antithesis of a White Elephant

When a white elephant isn’t a white elephant…

Julia: I’d like you to have this. It belonged to my brother, Robert.
Antonio: A white elephant.
Julia: Yes, but it’s not a white elephant in the pejorative sense.
Antonio: As in a building one inherits and costs a fortune to fix up and maintain?
Julia: No, this little elephant was a good luck charm for Robert. He wore it whenever he flew. On a chain. Except on his last flight. It was sent back among his belongings.
Antonio: Thank you. He’s not what he might seem to be. An amulate. I’ll take him with me. Come on, Robert.
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Voice-over
A white elephant is usually a large project, often a building or public works, that is troublesome, especially one that is expensive to maintain or difficult to get rid of. This one is the opposite…

A pot of four leaf clovers

Four leaves good luck

At a plant market...

Owen: A bunch of four leaf clovers? Genetically engineered, surely.

Prunella: Not genetic. Natural selection.

Owen: Darwinian culling? Perhaps inbreeding?

Prunella: If you will.

Owen: Will they proliferate?

Prunella: Don't keep them in the pot. Plant them in a garden. More will appear.

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Voice-over

Under natural conditions, one four leaf clover occurs among 10,000 three leaf clovers. That is said to bring luck. Buying a punnet of genetically manipulated or selectively grown four-leaf clovers ... could this be called pushing your luck?

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White Rabbit on a Motorcycle

White Rabbit, White Rabbit, White Rabbit

It’s that DAY
This year in MAY
We can PLAY
On a HarLAY!

Apologies for the awful tooney.
Don’t follow Clooney.
Fall off doing a hooney.
Really it wasn’t fooney.

White Rabbit, White Rabbit, White Rabbit.
Hip hop, hip hop, hip hop.
Grbp, Grbp, Grbp.
Good Luck, Good Luck, Good Luck!

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Voice-Over
No less a writer than A.A. Milne indulged in hopping rhymes. Hops have rhythm.

Christopher Robin goes

Hoppity, hoppity,

Hoppity, hoppity, hop.

Whenever I tell him

Politely to stop it, he

Says he can't possibly stop.

If he stopped hopping,

He couldn't go anywhere,

Poor little Christopher

Couldn't go anywhere...

That's why he always goes

Hoppity, hoppity,

Hoppity,

Hoppity,

Hop.

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White Rabbitism

A DOUBLE greeting for a new month! And a new year!

It's the first of a new month so ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce, our new religion:

WHITE RABBITISM!

And a religion needs a leader.

What better leader for the WHITE RABBIT religion than   ...

The Cultural Rabbit.

None other than BUGS myself.

HAPPY NEW YEAR for 2012

And, since it is the first of a new month, shout …

“WHITE RABBIT WHITE RABBIT WHITE RABBIT!”
as soon as you get up in the morning and good luck will follow you for the month.

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Voice-over 

You can worship the head of a sardine if you wish. But a white rabbit has more class. And a white rabbit offering a month's worth of good luck in exchange for saying  "White Rabbit, White Rabbit, White Rabbit" as soon as you wake up on the first day of a new month sounds a good deal and more economical than attending church on four Sundays a month. It isn't flaky, it has has some culture, some tradition, some history. If it gets enough worshippers, White Rabbitism could be very BIG! 

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