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appearing to be an effete snob who holds his Earl Grey with one pinky extended,

From the posts by numan I have read I kept thinking he reminded me of someone, and after much pondering it dawned on me that someone was the Paxton Whitehead character Dr. Philip Barbay in the movie Back to School. Pinky fully extended! Now that movie is the pinnacle of American Culture.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.