Nah, but that doesn’t stop me from using it as an excuse of pretentiousness. 
I’m so pretentious, I expect you all to already know all of the great things I’ve done.
[sub]Like driving a NASCAR, being 2/3 of the way to being a Divemaster, being a United States Marine, being an Industrial and Systems Engineer, the fact that I’m personally and solely responsible for testing the software UPS uses to balance their planes and the demonstrable fact that I give incredible massages. But you knew all this, right?[/sub]
I’m also pretentious enough to list a few, in case your memory is hazy, though I might take umbrage.
You mean my handle wasn’t a dead giveaway? 
And yeah, G&S songs are positively infectious! I can’t understand why the rest of my family hates them… 
(I also don’t understand why UMGASS had to pick the year after I graduate to stage my favorite show, but that’s another matter entirely.)
And, in order to have something on topic: I was appalled when I happened upon an edition of The Faerie Queene with modernized spelling.
I used to be pretentious, but now I’m perfect.
[QUOTE]
*Originally posted by Katisha *
** You mean my handle wasn’t a dead giveaway? **
Yeah, I know… :eek: especially since my Uncle Paul played Koko in a very local community theater-type production of “The Mikado” when I was nine. That was something, seeing him like that. Wow. Like something out of an Anna Russell routine.
**
My God. Those utter philistines. (Use of the word “philistines” in this context, to me, qualifies as fairly pretentious… didn’t want to go too far away from the OP…!)
:eek:
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?
[sub]And one of these days, I’m gonna stump you on some obscure Shakespeare quote if it’s the last thing I do![/sub]
I thought that was Miss Piggy???
I’m so pretentious that when I go “powder my nose” I have the houseboy wipe my butt with hundred dollar bills.
[sub]The above pretentiousness was provided by my son who, because of my very real pretentions, still does not have the ability to post to this message board.[/sub]
Mi estas tiom afekcia, ke mi ofte parolas Esperante, ech kun ne-esperantistoj…
Well ** * actually *** it came from the Peanuts cartoon strip.
Lucie walks up to Schroeder who is busy playing his piano and completely ignores her.
She sits there for a couple of frames before becoming exasperated and tells him that he is pretentious.
The last frame Lucie has walked off and Schroeder looks up from his piano for the first time and says…
[sub][sup]AHEM[/sup][/sub], We all know philistines aren’t pretentious. But one of them is perfect.
I’m so pretentious that I usually know any aria that’s used in any t.v. commercial (the name of the aria, opera & composer as well). I’m also a self-confessed musical snob, which I guess is pretentious…it annoys me when music from the wrong time period is played in movies, for example, at the end of the movie Elizabeth, a piece from Mozart’s Requiem is playing. I’m also a “purist” in that I think music should not be “updated”. There was an album that came out a few years ago of the music of Hildegard von Bingen (a 12th century abbess who wrote plainchant) SET TO SYNTHESIZERS!! I just about puked into my libretti. I also hate this “Celtic” music which is nothing more than a bunch of dopes with synthesizers playing “Danny Boy” and other ilk.(Usually available at nature stores). Give me uillean pipes and a bodhran any day! Don’t get me wrong, I like synthesizers, I’m a big fan of 80s music, but they just do not belong with music like Gregorian chant <shudder>.
I’ve got you all beat. Last night I ate my pizza off of a paper plate instead of directly from the box.
Cxu vere? Mi trovas gxin nekredebla. Ke vi tajpas Esperante, jes, sed cxu vi tie parolas ofte? (Pli ol maldirajxoj.)
Philistine…
That cracked me up… posting that comment right beneath your name!
And how about those pretentious folks with the gall to post in —is it??— Esperanto? Excellent!
Well, I know SOME people who are so pretentious that they ride unicycles across college campuses (campi?) and call themselves after obscure cartoon characters. The nerve!
Whenever I go into the rubber stamp section of a craft store, I always check to make sure that all the Chinese character stamps are right-side up.
Hm, I think it’s even more pretentious to have graduation pictures taken on said unicycle on said campus. Dunno if riding said unicycle 70 miles in one day counts as pretentious though… (I have ridden it on only 2 campuses AFAIK.)
And I’m named after an obsure band named after an obscure cartoon character, thank you very much.
My only flaw is my perfection.
I’m also so pretentious that I believe that the aforementioned is all I really need to say.
Putting the accent in “Orleeens”. Now THAT’S pretentious! 
Salut, ici Nouveau-Edimbourg.
I fear some of us are mixing real accomplishments, like good grades, doing well at work, and actually being able to speak a foreign language, with pretentiousness, which is filled with implications that your actual abilities do not match your claimed abilities. Carrying on a French conversation with a waiter is not inherently pretentious. It is only when he goes back to the kitchen and laughs with the cook about your grammar and pronunciation that it becomes pretentious.
Not even speaking Esperanto is pretentious, automatically. If you harbor the genuine delusion that the only thing standing between Man and universal peace and understanding is his Babel of languages, and that a manufactured language can cut through that and bring forth a new Eden, then you are not pretentious. Crazy, yes, but not pretentious.