MetaFilter posts tagged with anachronism

Party Like It's 1939!

Juliet Banana — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:58:01 -0800

Sartorial inspiration for anachronistic atavists: Rhiannon, The Black Apple, Johanni, Solanah, Casey Brown, Strawberry Lemonade, Fleur de Guerre, The Freelancer, and Elinkan.

God is in the details.

orthogonality — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:37:04 -0800

OCD or amazing? Or both?

"blue eyes that had seen Franz Josef in his glory at the Court Opera in 1908 close upon a view of rusty bed frames and cracked concrete walls."

orthogonality — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 04:05:41 -0800

"Habsburg! A vile being, heir to an illustrious name, born to a fortune, to honours, to soldiers, to prestige, and who finished as the lowest of Montmartre pimps, living from the money of a poor and unstable girl whom he sent to commit his foul deeds in his place!"

That was after this Polish scion of the most famous family in Europe and commander of a soi disant "Ukrainian Legion" failed to finagle the crown as a Socialist king of The Ukraine, and became instead a patron of the rent boys of Paris who "handled women by necessity and men for pleasure". And all that before he turned successively a Nazi sympathizer, a British spy, and finally came, for the first and last time, to Ukraine's capital Kiev as a victim of Stalin and the Twentieth Century.

Are the seams in your hose often crooked?

Dave Faris — Wed, 14 May 2008 08:17:13 -0800

Ladies, before you go searching for love from one of those online matchmaking sites, be sure to tally up your merits and demerits on this Marital Rating Scale.

Take that, squire!

moonbird — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 04:42:33 -0800

The Academy of European Medieval Martial Arts