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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My pretentious (also charming and eccentric southern) grandmother called her sideboard a hunt board.  But she was really into steeple chasing and so would invite the "hunt" back to the house where the buffet was set on the hunt board.

I didn't realize this would be perceived as pretentious until I met people who didn't have grandmothers who were into horses.[/quote]

I love that. Makes me think of camilla duchess of Cornwall. [/quote]

But a hunt board is different than a sideboard. The hunt board has longer legs because it goes outside (the servants carry it, presumably) and riders get refreshments from it while still on horseback (hence the need for it to be taller).

My Midwestern mom called our sideboard a buffet. When I was shopping online, I found that the thing I wanted was often referred to as an enfilade.

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Someone who had to repress a snicker when a person at a party actually asked me "Do you ride?" I thought that line only existed in jokes. 
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We have another winner for most pretentious post![/quote]

True about the Hunt board - it was carried outsie to be used by those still on horseback and is significantly taller than a normal sideboard.  Its not prententious to know this.  People acquire knoledge in many ways and knwoing things dioesnt make you prententious.  How you say it may, acting as if everyone shuld know that is obnoxious, bu tknowing facts in and of themselves is not pretentious.

As for someone asking "do you ride," there is nothing prententious about it.  If you ride, you ride.  I dont ride but all kinds of folks ride and its a perfectly harmless question..  [/quote]

PP with the horsey grandmother here- you are right I was not into the horses or the events, but I loved her hunt board because it made the best fort with those longer legs.  Now that I think about it there was a sideboard and a china cabinet in that furniture set.

I appreciate the horse event tips as it looks like my daughter inherited the horse bug.  And now I am know to ask people if they ride so that I can pick their brains about the many things I do not know.  I haven't really met any pretentious horse people though. They are just very precise about their sport.[/quote]

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