Elitists Check in

[felonious thunk]

I was reading the Atlantic the other day, at my urban townhouse. The wife took the Volvo over the organic market to pick up some dinner. I was enjoying a very nice Pommard (the region has really made a wonderful comeback, I suggest you try one) and was just reflecting on my elitism. Which I've decided I'm eminently proud of.

So check in, fellow snobs and elitists. Show your pride.

[kick-ass-bob]

1. P'shaw!

I don't need to check in.

You don't have as many posts as I.

:eyes:

[Phillycat]

2. Get Your War On

[kitkatrose]

28. I love that cartoon!!

:toast:

[RivetJoint]

3. Volvo? Elite?

Surely you jest...

[Arkana]

4. Elitist intellectual snob, checking in.

[Eurobabe]

5. Just donated to Phi Beta Kappa

to continue receiving my membership magazine. Does that count? ;)
I just spoke to one of my best friends, a Ph.D. from Brown, who is applying for professorship at Harvard. No shit.

[Aristus]

6. Liberal, intellectual snob reporting.

BTW, where is America going? And why are we in this handbasket?

[felonious thunk]

10. I assume we're going skiing or to the art museum

I can't explain the handbasket though.

[dolo amber]

7. I'm better than everyone

And I hate everything.

Hi felonious! :hi:

[felonious thunk]

11. Me too!

Hi dolo!

[Zuni]

8. Liberal elitist here

I am drinking bottled spring water while eating a bean curd salad in my converted loft apartment in an all white yuppie neighborhood just close enough to the negroes to show I care.
I might spend the rest of my day making fun of Christians and anyone dumb enough to live in 'flyover country'.

[Lavender Brown]

9. Bonjour

[denverbill]

12. Sorry, but I drink red wine, not white.

And we only eat organic meat, not veggies. And my wife drives a Toyota.

I'd like to be an elitist, but I just can't take that last step.

[Crankie Avalon]

13. Just received my new membership cards yesterday...

...from the Guggenheim Museum, to go along with all my other Museum and cultural organization memberships.

Tonight, I may deign to attend a preview screening of the new Kevin Spacey film if I feel up to it (but I don't know...it's called "Splish Splash"--a "biopic," as the hoi polloi would say--with Spacey as Bobby Darin, and doesn't seem high-brow enough for an elitist like moi).

Can we all say "slumming?"

Toodles!

[Frogtutor]

14. Question: What's the difference between an elitist and an

intellectual snob? I always figured an elitist had to have money, but an intellectual snob could be rich or poor.

Also, I've always associated elitists with the right wing, and intellectuals (snob or not) with the left.

Can someone set me straight on this?

:shrug:

Frogtutor

[LynnTheDem]

15. If by elitist you mean not being the dumbest

motherf*cker in the room, I am checking in! :D

[Phillycat]

16. Hee! See my post above...

Great minds...

[Threedifferentones]

17. I think only stupid and ignorant people voted for Bush.

Actually I just think that there are alot of people who are stupid, and alot of people who choose to remain ignorant because they can't be bothered with the truth. I also pride myself on doing my best to not be stupid or ignorant, so I guess I'm an intellectual snob.


3DO

[ydya]

18. Talk to one of my secretaries' secretaries. They'll set something

up and maybe you can do lunch with one of my secretaries. Dont bother me personally again.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

19. i am an elitist with a conscience

i was raised wealthy and educated...its not something that can be discarded.

[Bunny]

20. Elitist, quasi-intellectual, limousine liberal snob wanna-be, checking in.

Do we get a prize or something? :)

[Tikki]

21. I am proud of my....

University education and my Physical Anthropology BA. Hey, I might even go back to the University to get my MA.

Oh yeah, Geology Rules: our World, the Universe and beyond.

[Frogtutor]

22. Help me out here; I'm so confused!

If I went to community college and graduated with highest honors, various awards, etc. then I'm an intellectual, but not a snob, right?

If I then went to a prestigious, expensive private university and kept a perfect GPA, but I'm going to be paying off the student loans for a LOOOONG time, and my degree is for teaching elementary school, then I'm an intellectual, but am I a snob?

I'm pretty sure I'm not an elitist; been middle class most of my life, and even spent some time below poverty level, which gave me a whole new respect for the poor. I don't like most wealthy people simply because the ones I see around here are right wing nut jobs. I've come to associate elites with republicans. It seems that "Democrat" and "elite" are incompatible terms, even if the Democrat is wealthy...

Anyway, what makes a person a snob? If I'm proud of my educational accomplishments, but I don't think I'm better than anyone else because of them, am I a snob?

I know this thread is just for fun, but I'm really curious about how these terms are defined!

[felonious thunk]

23. I'm lower middle class, and don't really have a Volvo

But I do like wine, and and I do have a graduate degree. I think the basic criterion for being an elitist as I meant it here is:

Did you vote for Bush? If not, then you must be an elitist snob.

[Frogtutor]

25. Ok, then! Sign me up under "intellectual snob" n/t

[tjdee]

24. I aspire to be one, I think. But not if I have to be snobby and not watch

Spongebob Squarepants.

I would die for an urban townhouse and a Volvo. Um, okay, not a Volvo. A Jaguar.

I'm still WAY to poor to qualify.
And sometimes the Atlantic (and good goober, the New Yorker!) is B-O-R-I-N-G.

But I do enjoy fine wines, cappucinos, green tea ( ;) ) and thinking.

[Frogtutor]

27. Can we add a category called "eccentric intellectual"?

See, if we were elite, we could call ourselves "eccentric" and get away with things like watching Spongebob! Yeah, that's what I wanna be!

[NoPasaran]

26. Je suis désolé. Checking in is for the little people.

[Runcible Spoon]

29. as long as you're all not Grammar Nazis!

The ultimate snobbery: Grammar Nazis. Time for some linguistic smackdown!

[AngryAmish]

30. I will not deign to reply to this lowly post

Shit, I just did.