Food for thought: What's in a name? Or how we really want to be old $ white people

[radicaldog]

Originally Posted by SkinnyGoomba

Old money built this country, this country being one on the fore-front of equal rights.

Well, I'm not sure whether the robber barons had old money, especially given what counted as old money in Europe at the time.

Let's not get into the rights bit.

 

[RJman]

Originally Posted by radicaldog

Well, I'm not sure whether the robber barons had old money, especially given what counted as old money in Europe at the time.

Let's not get into the rights bit.

The robber barons like Vanderbilt and co. generally were very new money at the time they were doing their erstwhile building of this country. Some of their descendants may be considered old money now, which would not be the case in England or France.

 

[radicaldog]

Originally Posted by RJman

The robber barons like Vanderbilt and co. generally were very new money at the time they were doing their erstwhile building of this country. Some of their descendants may be considered old money now, which would not be the case in England or France.

That's exactly what I meant, but probably said too diplomatically.

 

[RJman]

Originally Posted by radicaldog

That's exactly what I meant, but probably said too diplomatically.

This entire threak has the smell of brimstone. Rabbit-scented brimstone...

 

[radicaldog]

Originally Posted by RJman

This entire threak has the smell of brimstone. Rabbit-scented brimstone...

Perhaps -- but I just find the unabashed cattiness you otherwise get far too tiresome.

 

[itsstillmatt]

I envy those of you who think about what goes behind the way people dress. At least I think I do.

 

[voxsartoria]

There is a lot of good second-hand information in the past page.

- B

 

[radicaldog]

Originally Posted by voxsartoria

There is a lot of good second-hand information in the past page.

Were you alive at the time of the robber barons? You do look young.

 

[SkinnyGoomba]

Originally Posted by radicaldog

Well, I'm not sure whether the robber barons had old money, especially given what counted as old money in Europe at the time. Let's not get into the rights bit.
I meant what we would consider old money now, I believe the majority of them were new money at the time. However it's this forum's mission statement to take everything to the extremest possible form of 'correct' so I expected someone would come along and 'rolleyes' then correct a minimal misstatement. The context of the Ralph Lauren pants are what their descendants wear now (though very unlikely).

 

[SkinnyGoomba]

Originally Posted by voxsartoria

There is a lot of good second-hand information in the past page. - B
Well Hello Trout-Steak, I find it pales in comparison to the information we've received from Furo on shoe making.

 

[Mentos]

nb4dt

 

[ohm]

Originally Posted by iammatt

I envy those of you who think about what goes behind the way people dress. At least I think I do.

I spend much of my day thinking about how we are naked behind all these clothes.

 

[RSS]

Originally Posted by SkinnyGoomba

Oh I'm sorry people like the Vanderbilt's had nothing to do with developing this country.
It's all relative. The Vanderbilts were not -- according to some -- old money. When Gertrude Vanderbilt married a Whitney ... the New York Times reported that the Vanderbilts had finally arrived. Of course ... further up the ladder ... there were those who considered the Whitney family to be less than the best ... and so it goes.

 

[voxsartoria]

This photograph spans the gamut, and in a very, very nice way.

- B

 

[Bellison]

No, Vox was def alive back then.

Originally Posted by radicaldog

Were you alive at the time of the robber barons? You do look young.