>>Could it just be a simple pleasant comment from her date? Remember
>>Utena DOES look sharp in a uniform. I mean come on.. Utena called her
>>date LORD Corwin. :p
>
>That's sort of an old joke, as much as people who've known each other
>for four months can have old jokes. When he told her he was a
>demigod, back at Christmastime, she asked him if she ought to address
>him with more respect - Sir Corwin, perhaps, or Lord Corwin. He
>didn't give her an answer, so sometimes, when she wants to tweak him a
>little, she uses one or the other.

I always thought it had not-a-little-bit to do with how his namesake was commonly addressed

or, at least, that was the one of the coincidences, along with the rose pin, that caused him to look at her so funny :)