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Rupert, self-styled Princeling Bear, looked with disdain on the fashionless hordes that these days crowded the bars and clubs, all regimented in their turn-upped jeans and braces, their Number 1 close cuts, their often grubby t-shirts. They had no taste, they had no style, they had no individuality. An army of soulless faces.
Au contraire, Rupert’s New Romantic Cavalier look endowed him with graces.
64 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Cavalier
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He would definitely stand out in today’s crowds. I’m sure he’d garner a fair share of snickers mixed in with curiosity!
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Did you not get the New Romantics in Canada? Adam Ant comes immediately to mind. Late 70s/early 80s
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Yes, we did. Not a connoisseur of them, though. Know them mostly by name; as well as Adam Ant.
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I don’t remember the names, though I loved their look.
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🙂
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Now you had me Googling Adam and the Ants (New Romantics seems something else)
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It was fashion, it was music, it was a look, a rebellion against skinhead/scar look.
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True. Plus, scrawny as he is, he is easy on the eyes…
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Oh isn’t he ever. Living with 3 daughters, one of whom was a teenager at the time, we fought to hog the tv screen
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😀
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Ha good one.
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🙂
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Yes, he would be a beacon of suave against the rest! Adam Ant was always one of my favourites.
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And I did chose the name of Rupert cos Prince Rupert was a Cavalier (supporter of Charles)
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His “individuality” certainly would stand out! 😄 Nice one!
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Thank you, Entangled
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“With righteous anger, sanctioned style
Refusal to be compromised
By inchworms who would take a mile
Their dress sense, world view, he despised
“Stomp out the unacceptable!”
His motto and so solemn vow
Ah, but I was so much Adler then
I’m Junger than that now”
– Ben Naga
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I like this. Love those last two lines. Yea, good. And clever
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Thank you. It’s part of a longer piece..
https://bennaga.wordpress.com/2014/03/28/upon-the-shoulders-of-giants/
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I am thoroughly gobbed (gobsmacked). Brillig.
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Lovely to read that wonderful English expression. Haven’t come across it for many years. And quite in keeping with my poem too. 😊
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Oh, I’m as English as they come. And I love keeping traditions alive, be they words or customs
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Rupert would definitely be the one to draw my eye in a crowd like what he describes! And the first thing I’d want to know is, why Princeling Bear? That sounds like a fascinating story in itself!
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Prince Rupert led King Charles’ Cavaliers. And then there is Rupert Bear (which may or may not be known in USA) how was a kid’s character back in the 50s-thro-60s
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Ah, that makes sense! Although I think I liked my fantasy of a, well, fantasy version of the story better — more magic and shapeshifting involved. 🙂
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Well, truth between you and me, there was a personal reason for it too. But hush, that’s not public knowledge
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🙂
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Is that an English Cavalier, ‘cavalier’ in terms of dismissive, or both? 😉
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Prince Rupert led the Cavaliers, i.e. King Charle’s supporters, so yes, I was referring to the actual Cavaliers, not the attitude
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The cavalier with a cavalier attitude towards the less fashionably respectable! Fantastic! 🙂
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Thanks Sammi
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