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OVER FHE EDGE NEWSPAPER. SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

MOST PRETENTIOUS PEOPLE

39. Geeks

Whether it be movies,
music, computers,
Roman history, sports,

or anything else, you can
always count on a geek to
make you feel inferior by
spouting off random facts
that no one in their right
mind would ever need to
know.

38. Justin Timberlake

Was sexy gone?

*1 Prince Charles

The Royal Family as
institution is bound to be
pretentious, but Prince
Charles goes above and
beyond the call of duty.
In a diary entry, he wrote
_ of a plane trip “It took me
some time to realise that
this was not first class(!)
although it puzzled me as
to why the seat seemed so
uncomfortable... ‘such is

countries. I want to have
a chain of them.” Nothing
more has been done.

the end of the Empire,’ I and washed up everywhere.

sighed to myself.”
34. Bill O'Reilly
3 6 : Tom DeLonge ;

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Don’t like being on this
list O’Reilly? How about
you boycott it and make us
lots of money. YELLING
MAKES US RIGHT!!

Bloggers

No, not all bloggers are
pretentious. Just the ones
who spend their time at
work writing about how
much more qualified they
are for important jobs.
Which might be believable,
if it weren’t for the fact that

Singer-guitarist DeLonge
has always been pretentious
(in advance of Blink 182’s
song “Always” being
released he said “It’s going
to change people’s lives

3 3 . Starbucks

iar aed aptually change they spend all their time at
the world forever.”’) In A rail emedtnaial
the context of Blink 182, er ee

and not actually, you know,

statements like this could ;
working.

be written off as jokes,
but after the band broke
up, DeLonge was filled
with even more hot air. He
claimed that the album by
his new band would the

3 8) : David Beckham
We'd write it off as
jealousy, if not for his

Look, we appreciate those
signs saying that its one
of the best places to work.

best music to come out The (D.corppilaligns and perfume commercial.
in 20 years, sell millions bogmdeames ame coo), But Ng
. all the specialty coffee in a

of copies, and change the
world. All this would be
helped, presumably, by the

the world couldn’t hide the
reek of holier-than-thou-

fact it was partly “written seca
by God.” Apparently God
rips off early U2 a lot. 3 2 . Lindsay Lohan

3 5 » Sean Combs
Pas 2 9 » Self-Righteous

Vegans

If you don’t want to eat

meat, that’s fine. But it

seems students don’t want

As Puff Daddy, he insisted
on being called “Puffy,”
which ran him into legal
troubles with Japanese pop
group Puffy Ami Yumi. And
now, as Diddy, he’s been
sued by UK artist Richard
“Diddy” Dearlove. So

_ he’s Diddy here, Puffy in
Europe, P. Diddy in Japan,

One way to be pretentious
is to be all talk and no
action. Over a year ago, in
defence of the amount of
money she makes Lohan
said “I want to go to
Egypt and Japan and open
orphanages in different

Steven Pinker. He is a
former Canadian. His “
‘pretentious’ claim-to-fame
has to be a book entitled
<~ “How the mind works”.

_, Well if we knew how the
mind worked, psychology

to hear about how they’te
murderers every time they
use their canine teeth the
way nature intended.

2 8 : Anne Proulx

An author likes it if her
work speaks for itself.
Here’s what Proulx wrote
after Crash beat out
Brokeback Mountain (based
on a short story by Prouxl)
for Best Picture:

“Roughly 6,000 film industry
voters, most in the Los Angeles
area, many living cloistered lives
behind wrought-iron gates or in
deluxe rest homes, out of touch
not only with the shifting larger
culture and the yeasty ferment
that is America these days, but
also out of touch with their own
segregated city, decide which
films are good. And rumor has

it that Lions Gate inundated the
academy voters with DVD copies
of ‘Trash’ - excuse me, Crash

- a few weeks before the ballot
deadline. Next year we can look
to the awards for controversial
themes on the punishment of
adulterers with a branding iron in
the shape of the letter A, runaway
slaves, and the debate over free
silver.”