Table manners

Damsel in dis Dress said:

I've always thought of our town as a northern Mayberry. 🙂

LOL. There can be only one Mayberry, and it's in NC, but there sure
are close facsimilies all over the place.

BOB

Ed Grabau and Pam Jacoby said:

And cultural doesn't come into it because s/he is dining in a
specific location and should at least attempt to abide by local
manners, as those of us who world travel should attempt to abide by
local customs.

Even that can get one in trouble though, if s/he doesn't quite
understand the local customs. I recall the time when I was at a dinner
party hosted by a friend from Laos. He and his wife prepared a
wonderful array of South East Asian dishes. At the end of the meal, I
thought the guests were *supposed* to fart loudly out of respect for the
host (or maybe the cook.) You can imagine my embarrassment.

At least they appreciated the enthusiasm...

Not a true story, but it was fun to tell and I think it makes a point.

Best regards,
Bob

Damsel in dis Dress said:

I've always thought of our town as a northern Mayberry. 🙂

My friends call out little town Hooterville. Until a few years ago we used to
be able to flag the train down.

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Damsel in dis Dress said:

Andy <[email hidden]>, if that's their real name, wrote:

Yeah, it's fictitious, and in northern Minnesota. Garrison Keillor
created it for his public radio show, "A Prairie Home Companion."
prairiehome.publicradio.org/

I was using Mayberry in my sig, but someone suggested Lake Woebegon
because it's in Minnesota. I've only listened to the show a couple times.
It's hilarious.

Keillor's books are really fun to read.

Is he the one who wrote, "How to Talk Minnesotan?" I love that book!
I don't do a lot of reading these days, except online. Darned bifocals!

Carol
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Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon

zxcvbob said:

I recall the time when I was at a dinner
party hosted by a friend from Laos. He and his wife prepared a
wonderful array of South East Asian dishes. At the end of the meal, I
thought the guests were *supposed* to fart loudly out of respect for the
host (or maybe the cook.) You can imagine my embarrassment.

At least they appreciated the enthusiasm...

ROFLMAO! You've got real class, Bob.

Carol
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Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon

BOB' said:

There can be only one Mayberry, and it's in NC, but there sure
are close facsimilies all over the place.

I thought that Mayberry was fictional. Oops!

Carol
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Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon

Damsel in dis Dress said:

BOB' said:

There can be only one Mayberry, and it's in NC, but there sure
are close facsimilies all over the place.

I thought that Mayberry was fictional. Oops!

It is. The Andy Griffith Show/Mayberry RFD.

BOB

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Carol
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Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon

BOB' said:

Damsel in dis Dress said:

BOB' said:

There can be only one Mayberry, and it's in NC, but there sure
are close facsimilies all over the place.

I thought that Mayberry was fictional. Oops!

It is. The Andy Griffith Show/Mayberry RFD.

Life is just never what you think it is. 🙂

Carol
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Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon

Dave Smith said:

Damsel in dis Dress said:

I've always thought of our town as a northern Mayberry. 🙂

My friends call out little town Hooterville. Until a few years ago we used to
be able to flag the train down.

Cool! Do you bathe in the town's water tower, too?

Carol
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Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon

Damsel in dis Dress said:

BOB' said:

There can be only one Mayberry, and it's in NC, but there sure
are close facsimilies all over the place.

I thought that Mayberry was fictional. Oops!

Carol

But Mt. Airy is trying very hard to be Mayberry. I live about 20
miles from there.

--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral, 48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974)

The Cook said:

But Mt. Airy is trying very hard to be Mayberry. I live about 20
miles from there.

What are they doing there?

Carol
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Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon

"BOB" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:M8%1e.78642$Q83.48335
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LOL. There can be only one Mayberry, and it's in NC, but there sure
are close facsimilies all over the place.

BOB

But have you ever been to Alice's Restaurant? Just down the road from
Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts. Just a way from Great Barrington and a
few stone throws from Pittsfield, right near Stockbridge and mailroute
Interlaken R.F.D.

It was a tiny hole in the wall church, like Arlo mentioned.

My high school was just down the road. As a matter of fact, Arlo Guthrie
was alumni of my high school. And officer Obbie was a real cop! He used
to drive around campus while I attended. He put his son up to try and
infiltrate the drug trade and they found him hung from a tree at the top
of the mountain. Poor guy... putting his kid to do a man's work.

The Berkshire mountains, what a wonderful place!!!

Andy

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"If you can't do it naturally, then fake it."
- Alfred Hitchcock
Spoken to Ingrid Bergman

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The Cook said:

But Mt. Airy is trying very hard to be Mayberry. I live about 20
miles from there.

What are they doing there?

Carol

Dear Queen Couth:
Is it proper to ask to the left or right of you first, before asking
those across the table from you to have your finger pulled?

Signed:
Dazed and Confused in Winnipeg

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No Bread Crumbs were hurt in the making of this Meal.
Type 2 Diabetic 1AC 7.3, 5.5, 5.6 mmol
Continuing to be Manitoban

Andy said:

But have you ever been to Alice's Restaurant? Just down the road from
Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts. Just a way from Great Barrington and a
few stone throws from Pittsfield, right near Stockbridge and mailroute
Interlaken R.F.D.

Dang. I was there about 20 years ago. I didn't know Alice's Restaurant was
there until about an hour later when we were on our way home. The song came
on the radio and the DJ talked about the location. I had to have walked
right by it.

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The Berkshire mountains, what a wonderful place!!!

It was beautiful around there.

Dog3 said:

"Kilikini" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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ROFL... Mother, Father (Back from his home in West Van) Steven and I
got so drunk on martinis (yes the real ones) a few years ago at
Christmas. You would have to know my mother. Black dress, pearls (She
is like a Sears commercial where she's painting a room perfectly
dressed) I still had my Scotties then and we had just gotten Missy.
We got absolutely disgusting and crude. We were not couth. We had a
ball just sitting at the dining room table.

Unfortunately that's when mother started feeding Missy snacks under
the table. That is how Missy learned to beg. Then she made all the
dogs hamburger in the morning. I could have killed her. She knew
better but was hung over and decided to do me a favor and feed the
kids. Well, she paid the price. The dogs got sick all over her white
carpet. 5000 square feet of it had all kinds of spots. I was so hung
over I refused to clean it.

Then her schnauzer puked on her bedspread. That's the day Marti quit.
The dog had puked 2 times on the spread and Marti was tired of
cleaning it. Mother nursed her Marti until she died. Marti was mean,
she made us do our own laundry, make our beds and do all kinds of
housework.

Ob Food:

I wonder if I can have a Reuben (not with the egg salad)before I
start this low carb diet

Damn, you made me laugh at your post! I sprayed beer on my monitor.
Thanks, I think.

Don't have the Reuben! If you keep saying I want this before I start low
carb, you're gonna keep saying it every day. Start now. I fully did as of
Saturday because I keep having constant kidney and bladder infections. I
was told by a woman with the same problem, that if you eliminate carbs it
should help cure it because I could be borderline diabetic. I dunno. My
hubby is a low-carb freak anyway, so, guess that's where I'm headed.

I haven't had potatoes in months and I'm a potato freak. No pasta in, oh, 6
months at least and no bread for about 8 months. If I can do it, you can
too.

kili

zxcvbob said:

I
thought the guests were *supposed* to fart loudly out of respect for the
host (or maybe the cook.) You can imagine my embarrassment.

At least they appreciated the enthusiasm...

Gator stands and applauds - for a long time.

Dog3 said:

How does one turn milk blue?

Plug its nose so it can't breathe. (You walked right into that one)

Carol

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:08:09 GMT, Dog3 <uhoh@ajfl;ajklsd;ajlds.nutz>

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I wonder if I can have a Reuben (not with the egg salad)before I start this
low carb diet

No bread. Corn beef on a plate, kraut on top of that, then cheese,then
dressing. Nuke until hot. Depending on the amount of cheese, and
dressing , very low carb.

Pan Ohco

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"jmcquown" <[email hidden]>, if that's their real name,

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I worked with someone (not from a different country) who would

take

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a huge bite of food and then start talking. Drove me nuts. I'd
look anywhere except at her because I really don't want to see her
mouth full of food. She is perfectly proper in every other sense

of

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the word, down to making sure her slacks (even jeans!) are pressed
and never a hair out of place. But put a plate in front of her and
she'll take a bite and then start talking. EEEEK! But no, I

never

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said anything to her. I don't have to live with her or watch her
eat every day. In fact, when we go out to lunch these days, I

make

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sure she's sitting beside me so I can look at the other people
across the table instead 😉

Now, remember, Wayne says I have class.

I used to work with a woman who always asked what I was eating for
lunch, while I was chewing it. Every day. Every damned, stinkin'
day. One day when she asked, I just opened my mouth and showed

her,

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then walked away. She never bothered me again.

Carol, the Queen of Couth

Oh, I had a guy like that at the office, too. Drove me nuts. What

did you

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bring for lunch? He'd lean over my shoulder to check it out.
Jill

Jill, whenever a guy leans over your shoulder to "check it out" he's
checking *them* out. 😉

Sheldon

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Damsel in dis Dress said:

"jmcquown" <[email hidden]>, if that's their real name,

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> I worked with someone (not from a different country) who would

take

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> a huge bite of food and then start talking. Drove me nuts. I'd
> look anywhere except at her because I really don't want to see her
> mouth full of food. She is perfectly proper in every other sense

of

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> the word, down to making sure her slacks (even jeans!) are pressed
> and never a hair out of place. But put a plate in front of her and
> she'll take a bite and then start talking. EEEEK! But no, I

never

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> said anything to her. I don't have to live with her or watch her
> eat every day. In fact, when we go out to lunch these days, I

make

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> sure she's sitting beside me so I can look at the other people
> across the table instead 😉

Now, remember, Wayne says I have class.

I used to work with a woman who always asked what I was eating for
lunch, while I was chewing it. Every day. Every damned, stinkin'
day. One day when she asked, I just opened my mouth and showed

her,

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then walked away. She never bothered me again.

Carol, the Queen of Couth

Oh, I had a guy like that at the office, too. Drove me nuts. What

did you

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bring for lunch? He'd lean over my shoulder to check it out.
Jill

Jill, whenever a guy leans over your shoulder to "check it out" he's
checking *them* out. 😉

Sheldon

That's hilarious Sheldon.

Elisa

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