Social Class Pillows

"Actually, Tommy, we're just about full-blooded management, except for your grandfather on your mom's side, who was one-quarter labor."

"Those two are recent Powerball money. The people by the table are old state-lottery money."

"You should know - I don't feel rich."

"I was middle class once. Some of it was fun."

"Yes, I'm sure it looked cute and clean, but I would sooner starve to death than eat lunch in a place called Jennifer's Biscuit."

"First I was part of the hoi polloi, Then I spent time with a gathering crowd. Now I'm a member of the urban masses."

Flunkey explaining to housemaid that he is not accustomed to physical exertion

"I'm a social scientist, Michael. That means I can't explain electricity or anything like that, but if you ever want to know about people I'm your man."

A divided world.

'Fred is a social conservative -- he believes in slow food and heavy beer.'

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

'So, how should we play this - capitalism or socialism?'

"You call yourselves a demographic?"

'Oh no! The sharp elbowed middle class!'

"We were poor and had the good sense to be miserable."

Surveys and economic interests

Student to Miss Belcastro, her history teacher: 'We need some newer history.'

'He calls himself a philanthropist, but would prefer Lord Philanthropist.'

'Is the poodle of the house in?'

Curate talking to miners

"I'll have the duck Poussin."

1867 Reform Bill: Household Suffrage

"I worry that the king's constant lying and his attacks on our societal norms and institutions is coarsening the civic discourse deemed essential by enlightened people everywhere!"

'The purpose of government is to protect me from him.'

'This is Dr Grumbacher, Professor Emeritus of Comparative Philology. Perhaps he could tell you the difference between an adverb and an adjective.'

From the tournament of neuroses parade

"You see it right?"

Since Greg was accepted by Mensa, he'd rather not say anything than say something incorrect.

'Guilty? Do you realize what that will do to my 'Who's Who' listing?'

"McNab here is with our consensus engineering department."

'I've noticed that it's only since I started laying golden eggs that everybody wants to be my friend...'

'What's the point of having a luxury car if you put it in the garage at night?'

Two men and dogs hang outside a truck.

Progress

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