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To: lentulusgracchus

Not Our Kind Dear : typically a favored phrase of the old WASP hierarchy regarding people a bit lower on the social register with whom it wasn’t worth associating.


22 posted on 11/12/2008 3:37:53 AM PST by garbanzo (Government is not the solution to our problems. Government is the problem.)
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To: garbanzo
Thanks for clearing that up. I'd heard of that expression ..... also given by Paul Fussell, I think, in Class, as "U" and "Non-U" ("Us" and "Not-Us"). But I didn't know the abbreviation. Thanx.
35 posted on 11/14/2008 5:40:31 AM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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