Friday 23 September 2011

Assorted Types

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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