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Whamming Someone Smaller Than Oneself In Order To Teach That Person Civilized Behavior Is Not Within Miss Manners' Concept Of Propriety, Much Less Logic.

The Challenge Of Manners Is Not So Much To Be Nice To Someone Whose Favor And/or Person You Covet (although More People Need To Be Reminded Of That Necessity Than One Would Suppose) As To Be Exposed To The Bad Manners Of Others Without Imitating Them.

It Is Not Rude To Turn Off Your Telephone By Switching It On To An Answering Machine, Which Is Cheaper And Less Disruptive Than Ripping It Out Of The Wall. Those Who Are Offended Because They Cannot Always Get Through When They Seek, At Their Own Convenience, To Barge In On People Are Suffering From A Rude Expectation.

Protocol Is Etiquette With A Government Expense Account.

Sometimes We Do Things A Certain Way Just Because That Is The Way We Do Things.