Class Dynamics Mugs

"You can't bully me."

"This is not the sort of America I envisioned, Tom-an America in which the middle class has to use public transportation."

'Sometimes I worry that my kids are to pampered, so this summer I wanted them to experience life as those less fortunate than us live it...It's positively the last time I ever fly economy!'

'It's not fair! I'm socially excluded from gang culture.'

"Me, I think Master and Mistress are incompetent: why else would they need a butler, 3 maids, 2 cooks, 5 gardeners, a pool boy and 2 personal assistants?"

"Now the geeks hold all the power. They're the ones who know how to forge a parent's e-signature."

"What's wrong, girl? Trouble? Rachel can't decide which private school to attend?" "Upper West Side Lassie"

"One can be against entitlements, and still feel a sense of entitlement."

"These 'ordinary working class' types, I think my scout at Oxford must have been one."

Stable boys and Scottsman

The blue-collar diner for white-collar people...

I will not waste chalk kid...

"I wish every teacher came with a warning label."

"Take a few minutes to introduce yourself, Ms. Berry. Not that they don't already have you pegged."

'I used to have serfs, but I've found that free-range peasants are more efficient.'

Early Resentment Towards Yuppies.

Servant talking to her old master about her new position

"Since I'm your favorite student, do I even have to take this test?"

'Well. . . she's exceptionally distracted.'

"Who'd like to go first?"

'I want to open a joint account with the riches man in town. . .'

"What's it like in the real economy?"

Poet and Peasant

Servant girl turning down a job because the family are not genteel enough

"'C-minus'? -- I'd like to speak to your supervisor!"

The assistant to the chair begins another busy day.

Newly Non-Mega-Rich

'He was a grateful man...just not in a good way.'

"Oh for goodness sake grow up Gerald. You know that just encourages them"

"Well, of course all of my jokes are going to punch down."

"God, I hate these stuck up coastal elites!"

North / South divide

A bridge between the 'haves' and the 'have nots' crumbles.

'You'll notice your desks have a new feature this year. Sit down and buckle up.'

'Typical! There's never anything in it for the little people.'