This comes to me from Allan W. Wallace.
A rather supercillious Englishman, having taken one pint in excess of his rated capacity at the local pub, proudly announced rather loudly, “I was born an Englishman, I have and shall live an Englishman, and I shall die an Englishman!”
From the back of the room, in a Scottish burr, came the response, “Yee gods, man, have ye no ambition?”