This should make you smile On a train from London to Manchester, an American was berating the Englishman sitting across from him in the compartment. "You English are too stuffy." You set yourselves apart too much. You think your stiff upper lips mean You're above the rest of us. Look at me... I'm just me, I have Italian blood, French blood, a little Indian blood, and some Swedish blood. What do you say to that?" "Very sporting of your mother," the Englishman replied.