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nanila asked me to explain the following three user icons. Let me know if you want to play!

widmerpool, because it's my mental image of you


OK so this is one of Marc Boxer's cover for Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time.  The caption is "Colonel Widmerpool somewhere in England".  I tend to use it when I know I'm being pissy or pedantic.  


spear, because it's what I think of as the classical version of "I put on my robe and wizard hat"

One of the classic Bugs classics (along with the Barber of Seville).  Largely used for music related posts.


canada, because moose

Well yes moose!  And beaver!  And canoe!  What could be more Canadian?  Eh?

Opera trivia

 The lemur and I went to opera trivia at the Four Seasons Centre last night (in the education centre which I had not previously visited).  We teamed up with Dylan Hayden (first met when we stood next to each other in the Ring 3 Stehplatzen for the opening night of Tristan and Isolde - we are hardcore) and friends in a team called "Berenice's Potato".  There was a Bugs Bunny question and we were just short of a perfect score being unable to work out exactly how many productions Russell Braun has been in at the COC in the last ten years (twelve!) or what the third play in Beaumarchais Figaro trliogy is (La mère coupable).  We won though.  It was fun.