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.
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11/12/2008 3:37:53 AM PST by
garbanzo
(Government is not the solution to our problems. Government is the problem.)
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.
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