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I am not familiar with "luvvie alert"?

Imagine you are at a nice party in London. You are chatting to an interesting sounding person who turns out is an actor, and then you hear phrases like this

"just one summer with the RSC back when I was younger".

"Of course Johnny said, ... umm, Gielguld of course dahling, did you see him in the Tempest in 74? Wunderful"

"I was saying to Sam just after that Quantum thing. You really should talk to Barbara about directing the next one. I have her number; charming lady, did I ever tell you about the time she ..."

A small red rotating flashing light will rise up out of the coffee table next to you and the words "luvvie alert" will be flashed across your field of vision.

Well you learn something new every day. From your beautiful description I could picture this type of person exactly !

Oh British English, how much I love you..... Let me count the ways! [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_Me_Count_the_Ways] ;-)

http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/luvvy

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Luvvies

It's interesting that none of those references refer to the Lovey Howell character in the 60s sitcom Gilligan's Island, which came first to mind for me when reading "luvvie alert". I suppose the character's name+personality is more of a blatant archetype than I (now 43) had realized as a child.

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