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opera_hat's Journal

Created on 2003-05-14 11:32:22 (#1059832), last updated 2006-10-03

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Name:A wasted youth
Birthdate:1982-11-27
Location:Cockermouth, Cumberland, United Kingdom
Bio
Opera-hat (also crush-hat, or gibus): usually only seen in the evening, and in most situations of inappropriate formality, an opera-hat is a pale imitation of a proper top-hat, which collapses when pressure is applied.

For any muppet who hadn't realised, that is supposed to be a metaphor.
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Interests (146):

1066 and all that, academic dress, allusion, amélie, angostura, anna paquin, anthony powell, archaisms, arms, asterix, bagpipes, benedictine, berkshire, bill nighy, bleak house, books, boucher, brandy, captain oats, carry on, casablanca, ceremonial, chateauneuf-du-pape, cigarette holders, clothes, clouds, cocktails, cognac, college of arms, colonel blimp, cordelia flyte, cornwall, correct form, cumberland, david niven, derelict buildings, diana mosley, dornford yates, dorothy l. sayers, drinking, dubonnet, empire, etymology, euroscepticism, evelyn waugh, evening dress, flanders and swann, flashman, formality, fragonard, fred astaire, futility, genealogy, gin, ginger rogers, grammar, hebrides overture, heraldry, history, hoegaarden, hot showers, indolence, irish elk, irrelevancy, john buchan, kind hearts and coronets, lac léman, languor, lassitude, lolita, long baths, michael arlen, monocles, more gin, morning dress, nancy mitford, narnia, novels, old brick, once more with feeling, opera hats, oxford bags, p.g. wodehouse, pageantry, pedantry, peerage law, peter o'toole, pink gin, plymouth gin, pocket watches, pomp, poussin, precedence, precedent, pride, professor branestawm, protocol, proust, rachmaninoff, reading, reading school, redemption hymnal, regency, richard e. grant, rococo, rolls royce, rural england, saki, skinny-dipping, sleeping, sloth, spats, st andrews, starched collars, stendhal, tablet, tanqueray, tanqueray ten, tchaikovsky, terry-thomas, thackeray, the blues brothers, the goon show, the lake district, the monarchy, the reluctant dragon, the sinner, thursday next, tiepolo, top hat, top hats, tradition, trollope, trompe l'œil ceilings, uncomfortable clothes, under milk wood, university of st andrews, vanity, vanity fair, waterloo, watteau, white beer, wikipedia, wipers times, withnail and i, yellow chartreuse

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Schools:

Reading School - Reading, England - Berkshire, United Kingdom (1994 - 1999)
Queen Elizabeth Grammar School - Penrith, England - Cumbria, United Kingdom (1999 - 2001)
University of St Andrews - St Andrews, Scotland - Fife, United Kingdom (2001 - 2004)
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