The Snobs were a 1960s British Band. They consisted of Colin Sandland, Eddie Gilbert, John Boulden and Peter Yerral. The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. ... Eddie Gilbert refers to: Eddie Gilbert (1905-1978), Australian Aboriginal cricketer; Edward M. Eddie Gilbert (b. ...
They were known by that name because of their Georgian wigs and shoes. The Snobs released one single called 'Buckle Shoe Stomp' in March1964 which failed to chart. 'Buckle Shoe Stomp's B-Side was a song called 'Stand and Deliver' (reputedly shouted by Dick Turpin when holding up carriages). March is the third month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... A 19th century illustration of Dick Turpin Richard (Dick) Turpin (September 21, 1706 – April 7, 1739) is a legendary English bandit and the most famous historical highwayman. ...
The Snobs were very popular in Finland and later moved there.
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The usual and more familiar story, now discredited, is that "snob" was used as schoolboy slang at Eton College in the post-Waterloo generation, when many more sons of the rich manufacturers of the booming industrial revolution were joining the sons of the gentry.
It is agreed, however, that the word "snob" broke into broad public usage with William Makepeace Thackeray's Book of Snobs, a collection of satiric sketches that appeared in the magazine Punch and were collected and published in 1848.
Thackeray's definition of "snob" then: "He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob." The "mean things" were the showy things of this world, like a secretaryship in the Queen's Cabinet, where Prime Ministers invariably retired as earls.
A snob, guilty of snobbery or snobbism, is a person who imitates the manners, adopts the world-view and apes the lifestyle of a social class of people to which that person does not by right belong.
A snob is perceived by those being imitated as an "arriviste", perhaps nouveau riche, and the elite group closes ranks to exclude such outsiders, often by developing elaborate social codes, symbolic status and recognizable marks of language.
"Snob" began as schoolboy slang at Eton in the post-Waterloo generation, when many more sons of the rich manufacturers of the booming industrial revolution were joining the sons of the gentry.
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