# Are You Pretentious? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 20, 2000, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-pretentious/41975 "2000-11-20T16:32:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lux\_Fiat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lux\_Fiat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Fiat)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-pretentious/41975/21 "2000-11-21T06:52:41Z")
> [@](#): > > Of course not. I really am the quintessence of tastefully understated gentility. By _The Myth of Sisyphus_! I, myself, am the _apotheosis_ of tastefully understated gentility! I simply must ring Jean-Jacques and tell him about this. I wonder if he’s landed in Prague yet. ---
**Author:** ![Humble\_Servant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/47e85d/32.png) [@Humble\_Servant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Humble_Servant)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-pretentious/41975/22 "2000-11-21T15:15:52Z")
> [@](#): > > . . . I don’t know what a Rum Tum Tugger is. Here (third section) is the original Rum Tum Tugger: [http://www.htcomp.net/weis/practicalcats.html](http://www.htcomp.net/weis/practicalcats.html) The OP is probably thinking of the character in the musical, _Cats_, which is based on the poem. Unfortunately, thanks to the SDMB, the phrase “quintessential Rum Tum Tugger” also made me think of [this](http://tugahoy.com). ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-pretentious/41975/23 "2000-11-21T15:32:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Humble Servant \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > . . . I don’t know what a Rum Tum Tugger is. > > Here (third section) is the original Rum Tum Tugger: > > [http://www.htcomp.net/weis/practicalcats.html](http://www.htcomp.net/weis/practicalcats.html) > > The OP is probably thinking of the character in the musical, _Cats_, which is based on the poem./B] As a huge Andrew Lloyd Webber fan, I thank you from the bottem of my heart for the postcard link. Now I can send T.S. Elliot postcards to all my CATS Web-friends. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-pretentious/41975/24 "2000-11-21T15:33:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Humble Servant \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > . . . I don’t know what a Rum Tum Tugger is. > > Here (third section) is the original Rum Tum Tugger: > > [http://www.htcomp.net/weis/practicalcats.html](http://www.htcomp.net/weis/practicalcats.html) > > The OP is probably thinking of the character in the musical, _Cats_, which is based on the poem./B] As a huge Andrew Lloyd Webber fan, I thank you from the bottem of my heart for the postcard link. Now I can send T.S. Elliot postcards to all my CATS Web-friends. I’m not pretencious. ANYONE knows the best Rum Tug Tugger was Michael Howe in the Austrian cast. Don’t you think T.S. Elliot’s words are much better in German? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-pretentious/41975/25 "2000-11-21T15:44:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Mermaid \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by degroof \* > > **You might be pretentious if… > > [li]…you had the ringer on your cell phone reprogrammed to play your favorite passage from Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen.[/li]** > > My cell phone plays Ode to Joy, not pretentious at all. > > \*\* \*My \* cellphone plays “The Terror” from Sir Michael Tippett’s _A Child of Our Time_. Pfeh. 😛 (And why isn’t there a “pretentious” smiley?) jr8 ---
**Author:** ![Feynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-pretentious/41975/26 "2000-11-21T15:59:47Z")
Most who know me would describe me as an egomaniac with delusions of grandeur… I’ll be dictator eventually and then it won’t matter what people think… ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-pretentious/41975/27 "2000-11-21T16:00:17Z")
…you’ve ever used the phrase “quintessential Rum Tum Tugger.” Or remarked on what a Wasteland that cheap Mendeleson imitator made of musicals. …you’ve actually participated in a heated argument over who makes the best home cappuccino machine. It’s an espresso machine. No-one has a mobile \*\*’\*\*phone. ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-pretentious/41975/28 "2000-11-21T16:09:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rodd Hill \* > “Pretentious? _ **Moi?** _” Damn, I was gonna say this, and sure enough someone beat me to it. So does anyone besides **Rodd** and myself know what he’s quoting? ---
**Author:** ![Erika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/47e85d/32.png) [@Erika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erika)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-pretentious/41975/29 "2000-11-21T16:09:51Z")
I guess I’m not particularly pretentious, but I reserve the right to be snobbish and maintain my superiority complex. ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-pretentious/41975/30 "2000-11-21T16:19:37Z")
> [@](#): > > (Crunchy Frog) > So does anyone besides Rodd and myself know what he’s quoting? [On the 'phone to Audrey] I’m more topazy… That’s Sybil (Prunella Scales) from Fawlty Towers. The joke is told to her by the undercover policeman. ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-pretentious/41975/31 "2000-11-21T16:38:17Z")
[Sybil]Oh, I _know_.[/Sybil] MR ---
**Author:** ![Rodd\_Hill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@Rodd\_Hill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodd_Hill)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-pretentious/41975/32 "2000-11-21T17:28:35Z")
**Crunchy Frog** : _Don’t mention the war!_ Lebensraum: living room, den, parlour, Bohemia and Moravia, whatever. Personally, I can’t stand Sir Andrew Lloyd Flubber; a good example of middlebrow _schrecklichkeit_, if you ask me. ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-pretentious/41975/33 "2000-11-21T17:33:26Z")
[Manuel] No, no, eet’s hamster! [/Manuel] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-pretentious/41975.md?page=1)