http://ask.metafilter.com/tags/ashleyjavier tag posts with ashleyjavier Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:14:24 -0800 Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:14:24 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://ask.metafilter.com/75570/What-is-harrogatha What, or where, is harrogatha? A few months ago, my wife posted on her a blog an article that appeared in the September issue of Vogue. It's about Ashley Javier, an exclusive New York hair stylist, whose penthouse shop is in a "rough part of Manhattan":<br> <br> When he arrived on Twenty-eighth Street, “This place was harrogatha! Harrogatha!”<br> <br> Neither one of us knows the word, and my wife included in her blog entry a request for a definition. No one has come forward, and I'm beginning to go crazy.<br> <br> A Google search brings up only my wife's blog reference and what looks like a Hungarian chat room about the game Diablo II. Somehow I don't think Javier the celebrity hair stylist plays first-person shooters. Also, none of the translation software I apply to the chat room seems to recognize harrogatha.<br> <br> Google also brings up Harrogate, a rather pleasant town in England. Could this be what Javier means? But it seems he's implying that the neighborhood was rough, dirty, messy, awful...I don't think Harrogate applies.<br> <br> This has become a minor obsession. Obviously the editors at Vogue let the word through, so they at least think it's a real word. I've tried variations in spelling, to no avail.<br> <br> Anyone know what harrogatha is? Or does anyone know Ashley Javier (offices at 28th and 5th) and they could just ask him? tag:ask.metafilter.com,2008:site.75570 Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:14:24 -0800 vogue september diablo ashleyjavier word Flying Saucer