# I'm so pretentious that... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 17, 2001, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-pretentious-that/65682 "2001-05-17T03:06:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2001, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-pretentious-that/65682/61 "2001-05-20T08:46:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by casdave \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > ## quote: > > > > Originally posted by DRY > > “Pretentious? Moi?” > > > > ## Old Fawlty Towers reference. God that was a great show! > > > > I thought that was Miss Piggy??? > > Well \*\* \* actually \*\*\* it came from the Peanuts cartoon strip.\*\* [pretentious mode on] Look, folks, all I know is that I heard it from Fawlty Towers. I didn’t say that it ORIGINATED from there. [pretentious mode off] ---
**Author:** ![Sengkelat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Sengkelat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sengkelat)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2001, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-pretentious-that/65682/62 "2001-05-21T16:03:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Katisha \* > \*\*I pronounce “Van Gogh” in the Dutch fashion. > \*\* So you probably also pronounce Gouda properly, yes? I thought I was the only one that pretentious. I mean, outside of the Netherlands. Not that that makes them pretentious. ---
**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2001, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-pretentious-that/65682/63 "2001-05-22T01:46:46Z")
Indeed. I’ve _been_ to Gouda! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2001, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-pretentious-that/65682/64 "2001-05-22T01:56:16Z")
You. Guys. Don’t. Know. Pretentious. My friend just recorded his album in his garage, and this is the track listing. 1. I was standing in 15th Street Station 2. when a bomb fell through the roof 3. my body dilated, and I dreamed of my ancestors 4. waking to the cheering of the cynics 5. walking to the subtle beat of resistance 6. questioning the questions 7. contacting the dead 8. binding the living 9. until it became blue 10. and the fuses, white hot, 11. began to pop 12. and at last the rain cooled this ectotherm 13. who baptized the bomb: 14. “The New World” 15. blink BWAHAHAHAHA! I like it as a poem, but GEEZ. MarxBoy ([But Not For Long!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=71675)) ---
**Author:** ![amati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@amati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amati)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2001, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-pretentious-that/65682/65 "2001-05-22T08:18:20Z")
i spend entire conversations working in my iq, just to impress whoever it is i am talking to but knowing the whole time that iq scores don’t mean anything. but none of that matters, i mean, i quote roddy piper in my sig. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2001, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-pretentious-that/65682/66 "2001-05-22T14:38:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MarxBoy \* > **walking to the subtle beat of resistance** I do believe we have a winner! Why doesn’t he post here? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-pretentious-that/65682.md?page=3)