Snobbery in the Lounge?

[jamespowers]

Nah... it's those Veteran Cosmic Rockers, The Moody Blues! :eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap

Oh geez. Same thing. :eusa_doh:

 

[Dr Doran]

Just don't start confusing Steely Dan (YES, I LOVE THEM) with Steeleye Spam or the Steve Miller Band.

 

[The Dame]

Clearly nuevo riche at the utmost.

Nouveau riche, dahling, nouveau ...

Confound it, my snobbery's showing!

 

[jamespowers]

Nouveau riche, dahling, nouveau ...

Confound it, my snobbery's showing!

lol lol lol just like Nuevo Riche University.
We need to differentiate as Nouveau seems more like a 1920s period rather than a coarse individual who made their money pig farming.

 

[jamespowers]

Just don't start confusing Steely Dan (YES, I LOVE THEM) with Steeleye Spam or the Steve Miller Band.

Steely Spam? Never heard of him. (sniff, sniff)

 

[The Dame]

lol lol lol just like Nuevo Riche University.
We need to differentiate as Nouveau seems more like a 1920s period rather than a coarse individual who made their money pig farming.

Hey, pigs are cleaner than hippies!

 

[jamespowers]

What's all this sniffing, is it snuff or something more interesting?

Don't get excited there Jerry Garcia. Exhale a little.

 

[jamespowers]

Hey, pigs are cleaner than hippies!

You have a point there.

 

[The Dame]

Yeah, I mean, we can't assume jp can afford cocaine, now can we? It's probably just a sinus problem anyway. Very plebian.

 

[jamespowers]

Yeah, I mean, we can't assume jp can afford cocaine, now can we? It's probably just a sinus problem anyway. Very plebian.

Afford or simply find it capricious and anathema to living in a clean hippie free society.

 

[The Dame]

Afford or simply find it capricious and anathema to living in a clean hippie free society.

Without smilies, that seems rather humorless ... you changing tack again, jp?

 

[Dr Doran]

The best book on snobbery and the nouveau riche is Petronius' Satyricon. This little first century AD masterpiece concerns a couple of highly educated slackers wandering the Mediterranean in search of patrons to feed and house them. The nouveau riche part is where they meet up with one of the greatest characters in fiction ... Trimalchio. An ex-slave, the vulgarest nouveau rich you have ever seen in your life, with an unbelievably expensive house, estates, farms, slaves, and the worst taste in human history. Misquoting Homer, getting his mythology wrong, a disgusting, gross monstrosity of a man, trying desperately to look better than he is. The novel's protagonists at first laugh at him, then kowtow to him since he has money. The attitude of the author is impossible to decipher ... a strange, amazing book.

Many translations are available if you (sniff) cannot read Latin. Oh, the plebs.

 

[jamespowers]

Without smilies, that seems rather humorless ... you changing tack again, jp?

Must have forgotten.

 

[The Dame]

Speaking of highly educated slackers, now that I have put in a day of (dis)honest work bantering with the likes of everyone on this thread, it is time for me to bid you bon soir et au revoir. It's Miller time!

 

[jamespowers]

The best book on snobbery and the nouveau riche is Petronius' Satyricon. This little first century AD masterpiece concerns a couple of highly educated slackers wandering the Mediterranean in search of patrons to feed and house them. The nouveau riche part is where they meet up with one of the greatest characters in fiction ... Trimalchio. An ex-slave, the vulgarest nouveau rich you have ever seen in your life, with an unbelievably expensive house, estates, farms, slaves, and the worst taste in human history. Misquoting Homer, getting his mythology wrong, a disgusting, gross monstrosity of a man, trying desperately to look better than he is. The novel's protagonists at first laugh at him, then kowtow to him since he has money. The attitude of the author is impossible to decipher ... a strange, amazing book.

Many translations are available if you (sniff) cannot read Latin. Oh, the plebs.

Definitely a good example of the nouveau riche (ok I'll use nouveau) and their ostentatious displays of nothingness.
Latin? Never heard of it.

 

[jamespowers]

Speaking of highly educated slackers, now that I have put in a day of (dis)honest work bantering with the likes of everyone on this thread, it is time for me to bid you bon soir et au revoir. It's Miller time!

You work for a living? How quaint.

 

[The Dame]

No, dahling, I only look like I'm working ... Really! Keep up, will you? *sniff*

 

[Dr Doran]

Definitely a good example of the nouveau riche (ok I'll use nouveau) and their ostentatious displays of nothingness.
Latin? Never heard of it.

If I'm nouveau rich, where the devil is my money?

Dame, let me get this straight -- you drink Miller?

Oh.
My.
God.

And we thought you were one of us.

Ruprecht? Please usher her out.

 

[jamespowers]

No, dahling, I only look like I'm working ... Really! Keep up, will you? *sniff*

Ahhhhh. For a moment, I thought you might actually work instead of live off of your investments. Such an endeavor is work unto itself in such bizarre economic conditions.

 

[The Dame]

If I'm nouveau rich, where the devil is my money?

Dame, let me get this straight -- you drink Miller?

Oh.
My.
God.

And we thought you were one of us.

Ruprecht? Please usher her out.

Gotcha! Snob!

(And for the record, NO - just wanted to see who'd rise to the bait ... )