TV Tropes has also made the lampshade/traffic cone link, though they and other people discussing lampshade instances appear to conflate drunken lampshade-wearing with hiding-by-pretending-to-be-a-lamp, which is not the same thing at all.
It appears from google that there are more modern examples of lampshade-wearing, at leas tin fiction and stock photos, than I’d realized, which for some reason cheers me. Several writers do note that the lampshade connotes not just “party drunk” but “annoying party drunk who thinks he’s funny,” though one person claimed to have seen an example in the wild and that it really was hilarious at the time.
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Date: 2019-10-17 05:18 pm (UTC)From:It appears from google that there are more modern examples of lampshade-wearing, at leas tin fiction and stock photos, than I’d realized, which for some reason cheers me. Several writers do note that the lampshade connotes not just “party drunk” but “annoying party drunk who thinks he’s funny,” though one person claimed to have seen an example in the wild and that it really was hilarious at the time.