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Why we Float
On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:01:40 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:
jps wrote:
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:54:52 -0400, hk
wrote:
On 3/19/10 5:51 PM, I am Tosk wrote:
In ,
says...
On Mar 19, 8:34 am, wrote:
Sorry, jps. Eisboch does not come across as a snob, at least from
what I've read in his posts.
Agreed. Eisboch is no "snob"
Agreed... JPS doesn't have a clue.
Scotty
Let me see if I have this...SnottyScotty, a fellow with a practically
flatline EEG, is commenting about others?
He had to look it up first.
No one else that I know talks up his houses, posts pictures of his
cars, acqures the dispenses with exepensive boats, organs, and talks
up his guitar shoppe that caters to the coolest clients.
Wikipedia: A common snobbery of the affluent is the belief that wealth
is either the cause or result of superiority, or both, and a common
snobbery of the physically attractive is that beauty is paramount.
It is agreed, however, that the word "snob" broke into broad public
usage with William Makepeace Thackeray's Book of Snobs, a collection
of satirical sketches that appeared serially in the magazine Punch,
February 1846 to February 1847, and were collected and published in
1848.[7] Thackeray's definition of snob then was: "He who meanly
admires mean things is a Snob". The "mean things", Thackeray was
implying, were the showy things of this world, like a secretaryship in
the Queen's Cabinet, where Prime Ministers invariably retired as
earls.
What the heck does "acqures the dispenses" mean, Mr Perfect? I can't
seem to find it in Wikipedia.
Seems to me that 'German Screwdrivers' could easily qualify as 'mean things'
under the definition given.
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John H
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