Are You A Dandy? Find Out!
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Are you a dandy? Find out! (Celebrating R. V. B. of Random Magic by Sasha Soren, and other fine dandies. )
- 1.
Your physical appearance is best described as:
- A.
Too good-looking for my own good
- B.
Tolerable enough
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- 2.
Your opinion on both Paris and London is:
- A.
Loud, noisy and crowded
- B.
Divine in any season
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- 3.
The only sensible beverage for a weekend breakfast would be:
- A.
Champagne
- B.
Orange juice
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- 4.
You speak and/or understand French:
- A.
Bien sûr que oui.
- B.
No, it's a horrible language spoken by rude people.
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- 5.
Charm is:
- A.
My stock in trade, although perhaps that's put a bit vulgarly.
- B.
Disreputable.
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- 6.
I am proficient at:
- A.
Dancing, singing, playing some sort of instrument or speaking several languages, selecting caviar, looking marvelous.
- B.
Can I get back to you on that?
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- 7.
One might say that you're essentially a frivolous sort of person. True or false?
- A.
Frivolous, moi?
- B.
How rude. Not at all.
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- 8.
Your relationship status is:
- A.
Bachelor
- B.
Married
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- 9.
Who said this?: 'It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.'
- A.
Oscar Wilde
- B.
No idea, but it doesn't sound like someone I'd like.
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- 10.
You own a smoking jacket (and most likely it is silk, brocade or velvet):
- A.
Yes, of course. Doesn't everyone?
- B.
No way, my buddies would laugh at me.
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- 11.
What's most likely to be found in your tool shed?
- A.
A tool shed? Whatever is that?
- B.
Tools
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- 12.
When it comes to sports, you're most likely to enjoy:
- A.
Fencing or boxing, and possibly sculling, bocce or croquet
- B.
Football or baseball, and possibly hockey, tennis or golf
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- 13.
Your normal mode of conversation is:
- A.
Witty, subtle, refined and sarcastic, if the occasion calls for it.
- B.
No frills and straight to the point.
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- 14.
Which quotes about dandies come closest to your opinion?:
- A.
'The dandy must aspire to be sublime without interruption.' - Charles Baudelaire and 'Dandyism is…a variety of genius.' - William Hazlitt
- B.
'I cannot talk with civet in the room, a fine puss-gentleman that's all perfume.' - William Cowper and 'The wealthy curlèd darlings of our nation.' - William Shakespeare
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- 15.
Badinage is:
- A.
An essential skill and one of the minor joys of life.
- B.
Hey, look, I'm not into that freaky stuff.
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