Few people realise that only the non-rhotic were on board the Ark during the Great Flood. A-hem---beggin' your pardon, sir, but what was Noah's wife's name? She could have been an r person. And how about giraffes? And what was it they were on, hmm? I have to say congratulations on Raconteur, though--it is a sublime fit. But I still ain't one o' them nonreal-word things, and I shall "glory" anyone who tries to say I am!
Hey, I just thought of what would have been a good story to be written up in that Onion thingy, if it were still in existence: "Entire citizenry of U.S. brings class-action suit against the government of New Zealand, for condoning non-rhoticism: unfair handicap for populace".