Austintatious (Austin-tatious) (1970s?)

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Maybe someone has an "Austintatious" hit on FACTIVA or another database? It  
means a pretentious display of the city of Austin (or of Jane Austen). The  
term is used a lot in these parts (Austin, Texas), but is not recorded in the  
HDAS.
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Entry from February 08, 2007 
Austintatious (Austin-tatious)
 
Austin is the capital of Texas; perhaps some people feel that it’s  “
ostentatious.” The term “Austintatious” (or “Austin-tatious” or sometimes  spelled “
Austintacious") has been used as an adjective and as a business name.  The 
term dates from at least the mid-1970s. 


_Merriam-Webster_ (http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/ostentatious)  
Main  Entry: os·ten·ta·tious 
Pronunciation: -sh&s 
Function:  adjective 
: marked by or fond of conspicuous or vainglorious and sometimes  pretentious 
display 

_Google  Books_ 
(http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0670122637&id=MwseAAAAMAAJ&q=austintatious&dq=austintatious&ie=ISO-8859-1&pgis=1)  
Ancient Lights 
by Davis Grubb 
New York: Viking  Press 
1982 
Pg. 246: 
I do find Texans so—so Austintatious. 

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(http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0807849200&id=R6KBKY7stGwC&pg=RA2-PA97&lpg=RA2-PA97&ots=Y3Yd_vhSa-&dq=austintatious&ie=ISO-8859-1&sig
=liMDNaxY0dtb7_953M5RC2NzAzY)  
Torching the Fink Books and Other Essays on Vernacular  Culture 
by Archie Green 
Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North  Carolina Press 
2001 
Pg. 97: 
Jack Jaxon offers the last picture of  the “Cozmic Cowboy”—a cartoon with 
running text published in the Austin  Sun (March 11, 1976) as a “handy guide for 
out-of-staters” (fig. 10). A  “genuine bad-ass redneck Texas cowpoke” stares 
down a hairy, “austintatious,”  jewelry-bedecked dude, while the artist 
explains their sartorial contrast.   

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From: _fran... at pangea.Stanford.EDU_ (mailto:fran... at pangea.Stanford.EDU)   
(Francis Muir) 
Date: 1996/02/25 
Subject: Re: Ted Samsel - Illuminati?  

Joann Zimmerman writes: 

... Paul, you’re way too damn late.  “Austintatious,” or as my former 
non-compadre Samsel spells it, “Austintacious,”  has been in use for at least 
twenty years to describe the state of exemplifying  
that which is (or used to be, by now, nostalgia not being what it used to  
be, either, damn it) Austin, Texas. I could cite all sorts of very back issues  
indeed of the previously-mentioned, but alas, 
all-too-defunct weekly _Austin  Sun_, circa 1976.  
You may continue to use the word “AustEntation” as a synonym for Janeism, as 
 I am quite sure that we are all sufficiently Close Readers to tell the  
difference. (Vive la!) 

I remind the rabid that I coined the word  Austenitic precisely - well, 
partly - to distinguish things Janeian from capital  Texan notions.  It is also 
true that in another world that Austenitic  steels - steels containing the 
crystaline form Austenite - are hard enough under  the somewhat adverse conditions 
met in the combustion chambers of internal  combustion engines that they are 
used to make those valves of whose multiplicity  of number the manufacturers of 
automobiles have now become so inordinately  proud. It was, in fact, a 
Victorian Austen after whom Austenite is named, and I  dare say he 
was related to Our Jane, Paul always excepted.  

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From: JD Cooper 
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 10:34:58  -0500 
Subject: Re: Who’s from Austin? AUSTIN-TATIOUS!  

“austintatious” is a common word used among the natives in Austin. I  have 
always thought it was a funny ‘lil colloquialism. Mostly it refers to the  
high-brow lifestyles of the rich and famous thereabouts. 

(Trademark)  
Word Mark AUSTINTATIOUS 
Goods and Services (CANCELLED) IC 042. G &  S: NO GOODS/SERVICES STATEMENT ON 
TRAM 
Mark Drawing Code (1) TYPED DRAWING  
Design Search Code 
Serial Number 81028958 
Filing Date 0000  
Current Filing Basis UNKNOWN 
Original Filing Basis UNKNOWN  
Registration Number 1028958 
Registration Date December 30, 1975  
Owner (REGISTRANT) Austintatious Artists UNKNOWN Austin TEXAS 
Register  PRINCIPAL 
Live/Dead Indicator DEAD 
Cancellation Date May 25, 1982  

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