Are you an eccentric?

[Mozart]

So I don't think classical music has anything to do with class, intelligence or any thing like that, but how about being eccentric? We certainly have some personalities on this forum..

[Heather Harrison]

I probably qualify as eccentric; my varied collecting interests alone (which include stuff that nobody in their right mind would want) should qualify me.  Beyond that, I have been known to space out and walk into walls because I have been lost in thought.

Heather

[Solitary Wanderer]

Yes, I've always been a bit 'different'.

The staff in an office I worked in when I was 20 called me the 'mystery man'

My musical interests have always been the opposite to whats 'popular' in the day.

[Don]

I'm just a regular guy without any trace of eccentric habits.

[Mozart]

I'm just a regular guy without any trace of eccentric habits.

I, on the other hand, am like the orbit of a comet.  Sometimes I even follow my tail!

[Tancata]

Nope, not eccentric. 

[Mark]

No. Though I used to flatter myself that I was.

[Mozart]

we need more votes, 4/9 if a pretty high percentage, but its too few to tell. The first 3 votes were yes!

[pjme]

Dali can, I presume, be called eccentric.
Posting on a classical music Forum is basically innocent  , sometimes interesting , often a bit "weird". 0:)..(The internet creates lonely people, i fear. ...)
But eccentrics? Hardly - look again at the portraits in the "what do you look like" thread : an average bunch of faces.
Ok - a bushy beard here, a manicured moustache there, the odd crazy glance....Nothing shocking or totaly unusual.

Belgian artist Panamarenko may qualify http://www.panamarenko.be/home.php



or Mathilde Willink ( wearing creations by Fong Leng), painter Carel willink's 3rd wife.



And, no, I'm not eccentric.

[pjme]

And this is a good one aswell! :



German fashion-king Rudolph Moshammer! (murdered in 2005)....

[springrite]

Many people think that I am. I don't. Eccentric? Just because I insist on being myself? Just because I refuse to be anyone's victim? Nah!





(OK, the answer is maybe)

[71 dB]

I'm definitely an eccentric. Free-thinking leads to that inexorably.

[pjme]

Since I'm not eccentric  , I hate to nit pick. But the definition  reads

a person with an unusual or odd personality
bizarre: conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics"
character: a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities); "a real character"; "a strange character"; "a friendly eccentric"; "the capable type"; "a mental case"
not having a common center; not concentric; "eccentric circles"
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Feeling lonely or misunderstood doesn't make one eccentric.

Peter

[Kullervo]

No. By this state's standards I might be considered eccentric, but so is everyone else who doesn't have a tan.

[Larry Rinkel]

No. By this state's standards I might be considered eccentric, but so is everyone else who doesn't have a tan.

Then you just need to get outside a bit more often. I do not consider myself an eccentric, but apparently a former co-worker did when she called me "different." Our conversation ran roughly like this:

CW: There's something about you - you're just different.
ME: No, I'm the same.
CW: That's what I mean. You're different.

[Kullervo]

Then you just need to get outside a bit more often.

Yes I do, but it's 99º here and I am NOT going out in that.

CW: There's something about you - you're just different.
ME: No, I'm the same.
CW: That's what I mean. You're different.

I had this same conversation when a girl asked what I was reading and I responded "It's a biography on Alban Berg."

[Larry Rinkel]

I had this same conversation when a girl asked what I was reading and I responded "It's a biography on Alban Berg."

She sounds like a lulu . . . .

[Gurn Blanston]

A person can't determine for him/herself whether or not he/she is eccentric. This is a label that must be bestowed by observers. I think that if one is conscious of one's oddities, then it isn't eccentricity anymore, it's ... damn, what's that bloody word? ... you know, posing as someone or something. Acting. Sh!t, I hate when this happens. Getting old, my friends 

[karlhenning]

A person can't determine for him/herself whether or not he/she is eccentric. This is a label that must be bestowed by observers.

Shrewd as ever, Gurnatron!

[Tancata]

Writing "shit" as "sh!t" is pretty eccentric in my book...  0:)