Today's Chuckle: Freepers debate "how to tell a patrician from a non" [View All]

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1493884/posts?q=1&&page=251

The topic came up when one astute Freeper noted that John Roberts' wife looked like a "patrician". Note the dearth of "Negroes" (Freeper reference) on the patrician list.



To: tommix2
How do you tell a patrician looking person from a nonpatrician looking one?

This might help, as visuals often do more than words. So imagine a picture of these people compared with one another where two names are listed in apposition (not that I am talking up all those in the Patrician list as role models for Americans), or consider individuals singly when no one is opposite.

Patrician......................Nonpatrician
Jane Roberts................Hillary Clinton
Jacqueline Kennedy..........Sheila Jackson Lee
Billy Graham................Jesse Jackson
George Washington............Huey Long
................................Aristotle Onassis
................................Bill Gates
Laura Bush...................That ketchup Heiress
...........................

It denotes an air of self-confidence rather than pride; it can involve being descended from families that have been successful in their personal and professional lives, but not always; to wit: Frederick Douglass, the slave who bought his freedom and educated himself, becoming a firebrand for Negro liberty and rights during and following the Civil War.


266 posted on 09/30/2005 12:00:20 PM PDT by GretchenM (Hooked on porn and hating it? Visit http://www.theophostic.com .)
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