Trivial Posts #13: The Gentlemen, The Borg, And The Goonies
Some more delightful ephemera from around the internet in my latest ‘Trivial Posts’ newsletter and blog post. You can always read the stories atewanspence.co.uk, or sign up to the mailing list and I’ll send them to you directly every Monday. Honour, respect, courtesy, and manners Kris Wolfe on what makes a gentleman, and how they still apply today: He sits after she sits “…and at the table wait until she is seated, indeed wait until every lady is seated, before taking your own place” The Gentlemen’s Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness (1860). Talk show hosts continue this tradition today by waiting to
