(Don’t blame me for this one; SidevieW set the theme!)
SULGRAVE MANOR
Good manors are quite nifty housing
Where the lords can live in state,
But not when a mob they’re arousing,
Filled with jealousy and hate.
SNOWSHILL MANOR
The manners of mobs are revolting –
Lack of manors makes them mad –
And brandishing arms they come bolting,
In a manner that is bad.
WADDESDON MANOR
They cannot aspire to manors;
They don’t know how to behave;
And shouldn’t go round manning banners
It’s unmannerly to wave.
SULGRAVE MANOR
They have table manners atrocious:
Right cutlery they don’t use;
If some manner of help approaches,
They’d probably all refuse.
WADDESDON MANOR
The manners of peasants will never
Improve to any degree:
Folk being, in manners, quite clever
To the manor born must be!
© Colonialist April 2013 (WordPress)
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bwohahaha! just shows how rude the peasants really are when they storm the castles/manors to destroy the monsters! what if the monster was dining – even ruder for them to cut it willy nilly!
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*fascinated* Peasants remove monsters’ reproductive bits?
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Monster not very impressed and removes peasant’s (pheasants’?) head?
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Pfft! Being to the manor born does not guarantee manners and vice versa. Nice manors,, Col
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It should, actually, help. If one’s parents etc behave like ladies and gentlemen, the habit is likely to rub off, and if like yobbos …
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I really enjoyed this one 🙂
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Goody!
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We had a primary school teacher whose favourite saying was, ‘Manners maketh man!’. I think good manners have become slightly old-fashioned nowadays, more’s the pity! To my mind there is nothing as charming as a man with good manners.
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Alas, things previously seen as ordinary good manners are now regarded as quaint or peculiar. Standing up for ladies, adjusting their chairs, giving up one’s seat to them in transport and all that sort of thing.
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I think it came about with women’s emancipation – we can’t have it all ways! Unfortunately, lol!
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Thanks for the smiles, Col.
But I must confess
I’ve met some manor-born who
Are quite manner-less:
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🙂 Very many of the manor-born have become manor-less, as well!
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😀
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Very awfully done indeed Col 😉
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You can’t say I had no manners, though!
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This is ex crew she ating. Where’s your manors Mr. N?
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What has a discharged female sailor having lunch got to do with it?
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She was having lunch?
Or having Lunch?
One shouldn’t be petty over an officer
But a lady’s honour may be a stake.
Over a steak.
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*gleefully* You made a missed steak leaving out a ‘t’. It was a T-bone?
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Oh, do you remember the comedy To the Manor Born (I think that’s what it was called)? I loved that!
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Yes, the name of the show was a pun like mine on the ‘to the manner born’ from Hamlet; however I don’t think they invented it because by that time the two had become interchangeable anyway.
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Yes! unfortunately…but I was a tot, I hasten to add..honest. Really small. Probably breast feeding.
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Perhaps it would be wiser not to go into the matter of tots and breasts too closely, here …
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Comedy of manne/ors
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Yay! You think it’s funny!
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or I am just confused *giggle*
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Never mind manners
The key is etiquette
for manners that is best
you can any time bet
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You are quire right, in a manner of speaking!
Remember the comic Etta Kett?
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