"Moira de Swardt" > wrote in message
...
>
> "Peter H.M. Brooks" > wrote in message
>
> > Actually last night Verity reminded me that we did join a dinner
> club
> > in Bristol some years ago. We paid our subs and checked the times
> to
> > see if each week would make it, but we never actually went - not
> even
> > once. It was very silly of us, in retrospect, I suspect that we
> were
> > too shy. Maybe, now we are older and accept faux pas as a standard
> > part of life we'll be more sensible...
>
> Actually, a well timed faux pas can put everyone at their ease. A
> well known South African personality, usually suave and genteel,
> made a seemingly unforgiveable comment (managing to potentially
> offend about half the people in the room) at the last dinner party
> he attended at my home. We loved him for it. :-) So human!
>
Not a faux pas then...

I do rather wonder what somebody really is when they are known as a
'personality' - I'd hate to be so known!