Nice one Terry Lean, very well written.

I always laugh when someone uses the term "we're all GENTLEMEN here"....and immediately I think of a group of tossers wearing monocles and morning dress acting "gentlemanly".  Ever seen the 1930s movie "Exterminating Angel" by Luis Bunuel?  Where all those uppercrusties are at a house dinnerparty and no one wants to leave or say the wrong thing, for risk of appearing ungentlemanly?  Reminds me of message board dynamics among the "gentlemen"


"So, while all the middle-class wannabe 'Gentlemen' are agonising over whether or not their shirt collars are white enough to pass muster, the real upper-class 'Gentlemen' of this world are pouring Brandy all over their mistress's tits and licking it off whilst laughing loudly."

-amazing.  the best thing I've read on the internerd in a long time

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Another point of contention is the cult of using British terms for clothing--braces, dinner suit--when in fact the speakers wouldn't know the differences between a Bristol and an MG.

This is a very timely thread. Perhaps we could all learn from the "internet gentlemen" out there...nah, we're doing fine.

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Along the "Cult of Gentlemen" lines, I always enjoy when two posters get into a verbal "duel."  Often, they each adopt a very formal manner of writing, even if the argument resulted from a very casual slag.  Once offence is taken, each invariably begins writing like a proper Victorian gentleman, complete with  "Dear Sirs" or referring to the other poster as "Mr. ______" even if such surname is clearly a screen alias.

Does anyone else enjoy this?

Cheers,
Mr. Chauncey

Don't forget the Roxborough-Leonard, if you do it nixes the whole deal.

I've got a good article by Cleveland Amory, -- it's in PDF -- and if anyone knows of a good hosting service for such files, I'd be happy to post it.  I think it's part of a larger study entitled "Who Killed Society".

Anyway, very relevant to our discussion here.  Good bedside reading.  Light, amusing, etc.  He documents that since the founding of Republic, there's been this complaint about "what happened to all the Gentlemen?"  Some very amusing anecdotes.  Worth reading if you go in for that sort of thing.