To: forkinsocket
prolier-than-thou Where does this phrase come from?
8 posted on
05/08/2008 3:25:46 PM PDT by
donna
("Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy.")
To: donna
Where does this phrase come from? inspired genius.
38 posted on
05/08/2008 3:44:41 PM PDT by
Gondring
(I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
To: donna
Prole, proletarian=the lower classes, commoners
41 posted on
05/08/2008 3:48:44 PM PDT by
count-your-change
(you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: donna
The term was coined by George Orwell in his book 1984, and is short for proletarian, a favorite term of Marxists for the working class.
124 posted on
05/08/2008 10:17:12 PM PDT by
denydenydeny
(Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
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