in article %Cnsd.434746$%k.151779@pd7tw2no, Steph at steph@vancouver.island
wrote on 12/5/04 3:47 AM:

> 
> "Ernest Schaal" <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote in message
> news:BDD7A102.2D968%eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp...
>> in article PRcsd.426102$nl.2541@pd7tw3no, Steph at steph@vancouver.island
>> wrote on 12/4/04 3:32 PM:
>> 
>>> 
>>> "Ernest Schaal" <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote in message
>>> news:BDD75D01.2D91D%eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp...
>>>> 
>>>> Probably it has something to do with most of them being educated
>>>> professional types. Many of my Canadian friends are fellow lawyers.
>>> 
>>> I knew it.......
>>> 
>>>> It is
>>>> usually the lower classes who bash the States because of their own
>>>> self-inadequacies.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Must be true then, a lawyer said it.
>>> 
>>> Patronising bastard
>> 
>> So you have problems with people of the professional class? Why am I not
>> surprised?
> 
> 
>   I don't mate. I'm of a rather more professional class than you, in fact.

I sincerely doubt that. What profession are you "claiming"?