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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica Class double date
From: "Scott Gant" <sgant@home.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 00:44:12 -0600

I believe it was George Carlin that said:

The Upper class makes all of the money, pays none of the taxes.

The Middle class pays all of the taxes, makes none of the money.

The Lower class/poor...well, they just keep them around to scare the hell
out of the Middle class.

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Rabiner" <mrabiner@concentric.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 4:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica Class double date


> According to what I remember reading in a book by Paul Fussell called
"Class"
> (strangely enough)
> USA "class" double date (pre PC)
>
> Low class (he calls them "Prole's"):
> Men sit in the front, women in the back.
> Middle class:
> Couple A in front, Couple B in back
> Upper class:
> Couple A Guy sits with couple B Gal in front.
> Couple A Gal sits with couple B Guy in back.
>
> Super presumptuous but not bad!!!
> Mark Rabiner
> The whole book is super presumptuous but not bad.