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| Articles about Polite |
| Be Polite | | 2008-05-13 02:01:02 | | A few days after Christmas, a mother was working in the kitchen listening to her young son playing with his new electric train in the living room. She heard the train stop and her son said, "All of you sons of bitches who want off, get the hell off now, cause this is the last stop! And all of you sons of bitches who are getting on, get your asses in the train, cause we're going down the tracks." The mother went nuts and told her son, "We don't use that kind of language in this house. Now I want you to go to your room and you are to stay there for TWO HOURS. When you come out, you may play with your train, but I want you to use nice language." Two hours later, the son comes out of the bedroom and resumes playing with his train. Soon the train stopped and the mother heard her son say, "All passengers who are disembarking from the train, please remember to take all of your belongings with you. We thank you for riding with us today and hope your trip was a pleasant one. We hope you will ri | | By: 1 Joke a Day | | |
| | Luxembourg drivers: are they truly polite? | | 2008-03-22 11:20:10 | | From the Wort: "Luxemburger sind höfliche Autofahrer". I agree that it's not easy to find an agressive driver in Luxembourg. But "polite", "courteous"? "Höflich" can also be translated has "unrude", which is more appropriate in this case. A tree is unrude. A stone wall is unrude. Luxembourgish drivers (or Luxembourg drivers) are not rude, they drive peacefully and respect traffic rules (when they're aware of them...). But this is not being polite: being polite is to adequate your speed near a junction to let someone turn left in front of you, even if you have the right of way. Being polite is to aknowledge the existence of other drivers and don't wait half a minute before moving so that you don't limit the number of cars that make it through before the light turns red again.Robert A. Heinlein once said that politeness is a sine qua non of civilization. I totally agree with him.Blogging in Luxembourg. In engrish. | | By: :u:b:i:k:u:o: | | |
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| Polite Potatoes. | | 2008-01-08 13:15:00 | | January 9 I am devastated. Humiliated even. I wish to apologise retrospectively to all my dinner guests over the years. I have belatedly read the advice (96 year old advice!) that would have saved me from several decades of social ineptitude. I have served impolite potatoes for decades. The Potato: A compilation of Information from every available source (1912) advises that “In polite society, potatoes are only admitted “en robe de chambre”, - that is to say, in their jackets – to the midday meal and then not on formal occasions. At such time the following are used …. ” The book goes on to give a number of extraordinarily polite potato recipes, starting with this one: Potato Georgette.Special recipe of M. Joseph, chef of the Cafe Paillard:Take a potato and hollow it out, filling the hollow with a salpicon of shrimp tails drenched in a bisque sauce made from the heads and pounded bodies of the shrimps. Cover the potato with some of the mashed insides and bake very well done and serve hot. Somewhat later in the polite section is a familiar recipe: Potatoes Julienne (Shoestring Potatoes)Cut raw into very fine shreds like straws, cook quickly in hot lard, dust with fine salt. Followed by a very unfamiliar (to me) and most intriguingly named dish: Between the Acts Potatoes.Same as Julienne, only about twice as large. The name? Does this mean French Fries during the interval at the theatre? From another book about The Irish Potato (1914) by Jessie Pinning Rich, from the University of Texas in 1914 we have a rather more homely approach – a recipe which sounds like a great way to use up leftover potatoes - but whatever you do, don’t serve them to guests if you move in polite society, it sounds a little rustic and, well, leftover. Waldorf Potatoes.Cut cold boiled potatoes into cubes and mix one cup of potatoes and one-half cup of cream sauce, having previously added four tablespoons of grated cheese. Pour over pot | | By: The Old Foodie | | |
| | Always Be Polite | | 2007-09-30 19:09:31 | | What does polite mean? The Oxford dictionary (on-line) says that polite is an adjective that means either courteous and well-mannered or cultured and refined as in polite society.
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