Be yourself! It's the answer to everything! But if you're tired of your life, your role, your career or your personality, why not try on one of these? (More here.)bod carpet knight (armchair philosopher)
charlatan
clutter buster (professional museum declutterer)
crank
departure-lounge novelist The property [the flat in Theatre of Blood] became the London home of departure-lounge novelist, failed politician and former jailbird Jeffrey Archer. (wiki)
determined liberals
dullard
eccentric
enfant terrible
femme enfant (child woman)
femme fatale
femme formidable
format fiddlers (Clive James on people who come up with new TV programmes by combining old ones etc)
G-plan people (Kenneth Williams)
guys in ties, lords on boards (any more?)
has-been heavy (movie villain)
high bohemia (haute boheme)
homebody
horrormeister
monstre sacré
nincompoop
pedant
plus assorted lovers, writers, sycophants, enablers, academics, gun dealers, snake handlers and hangers-on. millions.com on the Beat Generation phenom
sofa spud
spear carrier
spokescreature
terra-firma types may prefer to take a jeep tour or an old-fashioned bus excursion.
the liberal overclass (Peter Bradshaw)
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