More About Manners

Or: Don’t Fart In Small Cars During A Heat Wave In Bangkok Here’s a definition for manners:  non-enforceable guides or rules of conduct that grease the cogs and wheels of human relationships. That’s a mouthful but ‘non-enforceable’ is one point and ‘grease the cogs and wheels’ is the other. ‘Non-enforceable’: So far there is no law against passing wind (or wearing cheap perfume) in confined spaces… so far. Probably the closest you’ll ever get to being forced to use or have manners is when a parent tells you to ‘mind’ them. That’s in an age when almost every aspect of . . . → Read More: More About Manners

April Fool’s Day Came And Went…

We missed it. Damn! Well, there’s always next year… There have been some classic pranks pulled on this day in the past but for sheer style I don’t think this offering from the BBC in 1957 can be beaten. Apparently, afterwards they were besieged with calls from people who really wanted to know where to get the seeds or cuttings so they could do their own. Reminds me of when I was a little sprog and my father used to come home every third weekend with a sack full of oysters. I asked him where they came from and he . . . → Read More: April Fool’s Day Came And Went…