Are You Pretentious?

[Lux_Fiat]

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.

[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

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.

[Annie-Xmas]

*Originally posted by Humble Servant *
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. . . 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

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.

[Annie-Xmas]

*Originally posted by Humble Servant *
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. . . 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

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?

[Gyrate]

*Originally posted by The Mermaid *
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*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.

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*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

[Feynn]

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…

[hawthorne]

…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.

[Crunchy_Frog]

*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?

[Erika]

I guess I’m not particularly pretentious, but I reserve the right to be snobbish and maintain my superiority complex.

[hawthorne]

(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.

[Maeglin]

[Sybil]Oh, I know.[/Sybil]

MR

[Rodd_Hill]

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.

[Crunchy_Frog]

[Manuel]
No, no, eet’s hamster!
[/Manuel]