Posted on 06/28/2005 12:16:13 PM PDT by phoenix_004
Eclectic can be a GOOD thing. ;-D But you were right on about the chamber music in the background. The grandkids even bring a set of dress-up clothes for these "family feasts."
Traditionally the person who doesn't want wine simply tossed the unused wine glass against the wall as a subtle signal to the waiter.
(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
No, silly, they turn it upside down. It's after the toast that they throw it against the wall. ;-D
You are having too much fun with this aren't you?
This should be clarified-- Place the wrappers under the rim of the bread plate or the meal plate. Do not lift up the plates and put trash under them.
I guess she sweeps her dirt under the carpet, too!
I would be VERY suspicious of anyone that dealt with their butter wraps in this way..
What the hell is wrong with folding them up and leaving them on the edge of some appropriate saucer or plate?
Sticking them under the bread plate is both messy and devious....
Semper Fi
If I could get my kids to just put them down rather than pat them on their sisters head, that would be a victory.
Silly you, they only serve toast at breakfast!
I cannot find any good "open drosophila" pics. :(
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(as far as I know :)
It really is to laugh, isn't it? And we do have fun with all the rules and such, but the oooohs and aaaaahs when the table is set, the candles are lit, and the room sparkles like a dream are very gratifying.
I don't actually have a dishwasher, although I have a two-door ice and water dispensing fridge, and a nice glasstop stove, so we all end up doing every little tiny dish afterward...
This past year, DIL in the spirit of things, got me individual salt and peppers for each place setting, although I do have salt bowls with tiny spoons...
B.S. Who really believes someone is going to go to the next highest bidder because of a half second of "bad manners"?
What in the heck????
I have to admit, I read it the way you warn about in your last sentence and thought it was really odd advice.
I sent a $4 million casing deal to a very slightly higher priced supplier because one vendor really stank like he ate turdburgers and rolled in a black mud swamp when he came to visit me. At least he never came to see me after that.
I will beleive it could happen.
I eat my peas with honey;
I've done it all my life.
It makes the peas taste funny,
but it keeps them on my knife.
re: ..what to do with used butter foils.
I roll mine up in a ball and 'flick' them across the dining area, aiming for the snootty blonde with the costume jewelry.
Actually my wife and I used to teach Christian Etty-kit to our cohorts and children using our china and crystal. We were normally able to use the example of an ill mannered friend as one to not emulate if one cared to be always welcomed as a guest.
They got the point and I've always been able to take the kids (grown and older teens now) out without worrying about manners. In fact, they normally received compliments from other diners.
These dinners usually go very well until I loudly pass gas.
My advice to toss the glass was my attempt to start a culture war. Not nice, but nice is sooooo boring.
It was quite a disgusting series of events actually. I was advising on the project locally and one of the Americans made of point of telling me he was gay and asked where he could meet other gays in town - I was a bit shocked and just said that I had no idea.
It was a US5 million dollar project and the US company based out of Boston was actually going to get the project until the last minute.
We went to the hotel to meet the guys and the doorman told us that one of "our friends" he was up in the room the night before with two gay boys he had picked up somewhere.
I met later with two of the directors and the CEO and then advised them accordingly.
The project was awarded to the Australians - The company in Boston never knew the reason why. Sad.
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