You Might Be a Gryphon in Spirit if...

1.) You like the smell of cat food -- especially the kind with horse meat

2.) You love shinies and would protect your collection with your life

3.) You ever slip into Ye Olde English

4.) You screech when you're angry

5.) You scree when you're hungry

6.) You've ever hissed at someone if they startle you

7.) You purr when people pet you on the head

8.) You've ever seen a picture of a Gryphon and asked aloud, "Do I know him?"

9.) You've seen a Gryphon statue and thought "Now that is what *I* would look for in a mate for life."

10.) If you're female, you were insulted by Nick O'Donohoe's stories where there are no female Gryphons, though they're still one of your favorite series

11.) You've ever clacked your teeth together in annoyance and were suprised at how quiet the sound was

12.) You wish you had a more intimidating stare

13.) You have three sleeping positions -- curled up, stretched out as far as you can go, and standing up... and it irritates you that you can't sleep with your head under your arm

14.) You like your meat rare -- or raw

15.) You've ever been driving along the road and almost swerved into the ditch because you saw a horse

16.) You roll your eyes at pictures of Unicorns

17.) You love flying and will go to places like Boring, Oregon by plane just because you get to fly

18.) Being on a plane makes you bawl uncontrollably because you want to fly by your own power

19.) The first thing you do in the morning is stretch for thirty minutes

20.) You like frequent, short naps

21.) Where it's dusty, you miss having nictitating membranes

22.) You grow your nails long, and cry when they break

23.) You have several favorite moves in fights -- the head butt, the aerial dive, clawing and biting -- and they're actually pretty effective

24.) Your laugh can only be described as a chuckle

25.) You have a biting wit and stinging sarcasm

26.) You love watching nature shows on Discovery -- especially ones about raptors or lions

27.) When you look at pictures of lions in National Geographic or on a nature show, your eyes drift to the lion's hiney, and you think, "Wow, what a cute butt."

28.) You drool when you see pictures of horses

29.) When you're vacationing in the Rockies where it's cool, dry and Windy, you see a mountain goat and wonder what it tastes like

30.) You know what it tastes like

31.) You have a Gryphon tatoo

32.) You own a Gryphon statue

33.) You bought a Gryphon poster or painting

34.) You print out Gryphon pics from the net and put them up on your wall

35.) You print out "You might be a Gryphon if..." lists

36.) You chuckle at "You might be a Gryphon if..." lists

37.) Your email or online name is your Gryphon name or has Gryphon or a spelling variation of Gryphon in it

38.) You sometimes want to run away to the mountains and live off the land just so you can hunt your own food

39.) You stalk hamburger in the meat market

40.) You think of cats and birds as your brothers and sisters

41.) You have pet cats or birds and you talk to them

42.) You understand when they talk back

43.) You give your birds such silly pet names as "Ooobie booboo Gryphiehead"

44.) You give your cats such silly pet names as "Itty bitty Gryphonbutt"

45.) Falconry is one of your hobbies, or you want to go into falconry

46.) You love anything that gets you closer to nature -- like camping, sailing (on *top* of the water), hiking or hangliding

47.) You HATE getting wet... and dislike swimming (which no one seems to understand)

48.) Instead of packing gorp when you go hiking, you pack jerky and meatloaf sandwiches

49.) Your toes are strangely flexible

50.) When you were little, you swore to everyone you could fly -- you don't tell anyone now because they keep threatening to throw you in the nut house

51.) Stories that depict Gryphons, Dragons, and other fellow mythics as "evil" or the bad guys makes you mad... but stories about Unicorns as the protagonist just make you roll your eyes

52.) You draw Gryphons all the time, even if you can't draw worth beans

53.) You write stories and poetry about Gryphons

54.) You call poetry Windspeak

55.) You know all the spellings of Gryphon by heart

56.) You always look up the word for Gryphon in other languages

57.) You like a medieval, classical atmosphere

58.) High, rocky crags are your dream environment

59.) You like cool, dry weather best

60.) You go to the beach just because it's Windy there

61.) You go to places like Hood River, Oregon and other famous Wind surfing places just because it's Windy there

62.) You have a very expensive, custom made trick kite just as an excuse to go to Windy spots... and the kite has a Gryphon on it

63.) You capitalize Wind

64.) You capitalize Gryphon

65.) Bare, pink, bulgy-black-eyed, bumpy-skinned baby birds are the cutest thing you've ever seen

66.) You dumped a bunch of gold jewelry on your bed and slept on it... and you were comfortable

67.) You like sunrise better than sunset

68.) You're generally quiet

69.) You're really good at slinking, stalking and hiding in the shadows

70.) You don't like taking credit for your accomplishments and deeds and try to do them anonymously... and you love watching people trying to figure out who did it

71.) You are really good at keeping secrets

72.) You love reading

73.) You own almost every Gryphon book ever written, and buy books that just have Gryphon mentioned one time

74.) Debating is an art for you; and you always win

75.) You love fencing -- and always think how much better you'd be without the foil, if you could just grow your claws a *little* longer

76.) Long hair is too much of a hassle, so you keep it short

77.) It irritates you that Dragons and Gargoyles are so popular and Gryphons aren't very common

78.) You joined the Gryphon's Guild at http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/4758 because of the above

79.) You tell people you're a Gryphon

80.) You tried to disembowel people because they didn't believe you when you told them that

81.) You can say yes to more than half of this list

82.) You can say yes to ALL of this list

83.) You write these lists

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