The British Thread.

[Bona Drag]

Baked beans are off!

 

[Bandwagonesque]

I'm not a number, I'm a free man!

 

[Homme]

I'm not an animal, I'm a human being!

 

[acidboy]

..

 

[tiecollector]

 

[DocHolliday]

How can we have made it to page 4 without these???

 

[Dormouse]

How can we have made it to page 4 without these???

Along with his genteel accoutrements.

 

[Nick M]

I'm not entirely sure where the hat came from.

But it is mine.

 

[Stazy]

Shakespeare anyone?

 

[Fabienne]

Originally Posted by Dormouse

Along with his genteel accoutrements.

About the word accoutrement when used in English: Is it mostly pejorative, as it is in the original French? I'm asking because recently, at an Italian carnival, this woman I barely know came up to me (I was wearing a sari) and said "I hadn't recognized you in this accoutrement". Was she being catty? I did win the most beautiful costume contest.

I loved Rising damp, btw.

 

[RJman]

Originally Posted by Fabienne

About the word accoutrement when used in English: Is it mostly pejorative, as it is in the original French? I'm asking because recently, at an Italian carnival, this woman I barely know came up to me (I was wearing a sari) and said "I hadn't recognized you in this accoutrement". Was she being catty? I did win the most beautiful costume contest.

I loved Rising damp, btw.
Not pejorative inherently, although it is so little used a word that it may take on a pejorative implication in being used ironically.

I almost wore my chapeau melon today along with the whangee Brigg for the rain that didn't happen.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

Originally Posted by Fabienne

About the word accoutrement when used in English: Is it mostly pejorative, as it is in the original French? I'm asking because recently, at an Italian carnival, this woman I barely know came up to me (I was wearing a sari) and said "I hadn't recognized you in this accoutrement". Was she being catty? I did win the most beautiful costume contest.

I loved Rising damp, btw.
It is usually used, in the plural, as a fancy synonym for "accessories" or "trappings." It is more often written than spoken.

 

[Fabienne]

In other words, beware of the woman?

 

[Dakota rube]

Originally Posted by Dormouse

Along with his genteel accoutrements.
Actually, I think Emma Peel was Steed's most genteel accoutrement

 

[benecios]

Modern British humour at its best!