Pretentious bollocksPossibly the worst event I ever went to was an evening of turntablists in London. The lights went down, the first guy put a cymbal onto a turntable, dropped the needle on it and left it making screeching noises for ten minutes.
When the lights came up, half the audience had snuck out.
What's the most pretentious rubbish you've ever been to see in the name of art?
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chthonic, Wed 28 Sep 2005, 14:19)
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Pretentious NamesNot art, but here's a short list of pretentious and unoriginal naming foolishness:
- Hyphenated surnames: pick a name already, Mrs. Washington-Brown, why are you wasting our time?
- First initials: J. Stuart Wankerbottom, you are a pretentious prick.
- Families whose first names all begin with the same letter. Judy, John, Jack and Josie. Christ.
- People named after crappy american cities: Madison, Cheyenne... how about Walla-Walla?
- Parents who get cute with the spelling of mundane names. "OK, we'll name him Ronald, but we'll spell it Ronyld". Excellent.
- People who insist upon pronouncing their mundane names in a "special" way: "That's CLOW-dia, not Claudia".
And then there's Cirque de Soleil...
Yours Truly,
J. Dallas "Splatpig" Gerhardt-Mosely
(, Mon 3 Oct 2005, 17:41, Reply)
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