Modern manners : an etiquette book for rude people /
Contains a rule book for living in a world without rules with a collection of anti-etiquette quotes and sayings about a variety of topics.
| Основен автор: | O'Rourke, P. J. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Atlantic Monthly Press,
c1989.
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| Издание: | 1st Atlantic Monthly Press ed. |
| Предмети: |
Съдържание:
- Section I:
- Rules to live by in a world with no rules.
- What are manners?
- Creating a persona: the polite you
- Fundamentals of contemporary courtesy
- Important people: when to stand up, when to sit down, and when to roll over and play dead
- Table manners
- Acting up
- Drinking
- Taking drugs
- Conversation.
- Section II:
- Men, women, and other people.
- Advice for modern women
- Advice for modern men
- Modern dating: its causes and cures
- More sex: if you must
- Where babies come from and where they should go
- After marriage.
- Section III:
- Formal etiquette.
- Recrudescence of formal ceremony
- Horrible wedding
- Hip funeral.
- Section IV:
- Entertaining part of life.
- Real parties
- Going out.
- Section V:
- That part of life which is not in the least entertaining.
- Courtesy in the workplace
- Social correspondence
- Guests, including pets and old friends from college
- Servants
- Real trouble.
- Section VI:
- Clothing.
- Men's clothes
- Women's clothes
- Clothes for adolescents, mental patients, and members of rock and roll bands.
- Section VII:
- Leisure effort.
- Sports manners
- Travel etiquette.