Open Thread 2008!

[packbat]

Buoyed by the terrific success of last year's, I offer you: another open thread! Post! Question! Answer! Flame! (Not too much flame, though - the extinguisher hasn't been recharged in a while.) Anything doesn't reply to regular posts can go here.

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[packbat.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I was infected with a unquenchable desire for pretense as a child. I've occasionally flirted with various memetic treatments for the disorder, but the sheer beauty of "les contorsions de tous ces grands faiseurs de protestations, ces affables donneurs d'embrassades frivoles, ces obligeants diseurs d'inutiles paroles, qui de civilités, avec tous, font combat, et traitent du même air, l'honnête homme, et le fat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Misanthrope)" - by which I hope I mean "the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these obliging utterers of empty words, who view every one in civilities, and treat the man of worth and the fop alike"; I don't speak French - keeps calling me back.

Or the brief version: "I am thus because I am a pretentious bastard." :D

Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week! Try the veal!

P.S. It's a shame that we have to annotate our jests online to avoid scandal, is it not?