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Default Miss Manners on serving "informal" dinners to guests

On Sun, 4 Jul 2010 18:06:32 -0700 (PDT), 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."
>
>Lenona.
>
>http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1...rs-informality
>
>Informality Or Not Giving A Hoot?
>Miss Manners.
>June 11, 1995|By Judith Martin, United Feature Syndicate.


<snip>

Miss Manners is one of the last at the barricades to fend off social
anarchy. I don't know when good manners and the employment of correct
etiquette became irrelevant, but it seems to be increasingly
noticeable in an increasingly uncivil society.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

--

"If the soup had been as warm as the wine,
if the wine had been as old as the turkey,
and if the turkey had had a breast like the maid,
it would have been a swell dinner." Duncan Hines


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