On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 10:18:39 -0400, blake murphy
> wrote:

>On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 18:11:17 -0700, Serene Vannoy wrote:
>
>> On 07/04/2010 06:06 PM, Lenona wrote:
>>> Or, as George Bernard Shaw said: "Do not do unto others as you would
>>> that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."
>>
>> I love Miss Manners so much.
>>
>> Serene
>
>she's a very funny (and eminently sensible) lady.
>
>your pal,
>blake

Which reminds me of another:

The birds are singing, the flowers are budding, and it is time for
Miss Manners to tell young lovers to stop necking in public.
It's not that Miss Manners is immune to romance. Miss Manners has
been known to squeeze a gentleman's arm while being helped over a
curb, and, in her wild youth, even to press a dainty slipper against a
foot or two under the dinner table. Miss Manners also believes that
the sight of people strolling hand in hand or arm in arm or arm in
hand dresses up a city considerably more than the more familiar sight
of people shaking umbrellas at one another. What Miss Manners objects
to is the kind of activity that frightens the horses on the street ...