John Pieret's blog Thoughts in a Haystack has an essay on this that is well worth reading, although I'd rather be called an elite snob than an elite bastard because all Australians are bastards. It's part of the Carnival of the Elite Bastards #1 at En Tequila es Verdad.
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Thank ye kindly sir.
Elite snob? Careful, John - they'll think you're English.
Nobody would ever mistake me for a Pommy Bastard. Well, there was that one time when Cliff Richard's manager thought I came from South London, but that was a while ago and I've Aussied up since...
John,
Pharyngulas new star Etha Williams has a fantastic post on The Consolation of Elitism which is well worth pointing to :
http://jeanneshade.blogspot.com/2008/05/consolation-of-elitism.html
Cheers,
Martin
John - your attempt to link to the carnival up there goes to John Pieret's blog. The Bastard Carnival is here
Note that Etha's post that Martin linked to is part of the same Carnival John W. meant to link to.
Thanks, efrique. I fixed it.