On a train from London to Manchester, an American was berating the
Englishman sitting across from him in the compartment.
"The trouble with you English is that you are too stuffy. You set
yourselves apart too much. You think your stiff upper lip makes you above
the rest of us. Look at me: I'm me. I have a little Italian in me, a bit
of Greek blood, a little Irish and some Spanish blood. What do you say to
that?”
The Englishman lowered his newspaper and replied, "How very sporting of your mother."