Re: apropos of nothing, really...

From: Diane Hodges (dhodges@ceo.cudenver.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 31 2003 - 15:03:45 PST


bruce writes:
Not sure what the British talk about - probably we're all too embarrassed
to
talk about our emotions ;).

Bruce

hm. Don't you all have some sort of "stiff upper lip" condition?

;)

Actually, I think it might be "manners." Russians have soul, Americans
have heart, and the British have manners.
Civility. And all that, wot. Ha. :)
diane

'Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself
upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.'
Stephen Leacock,
"Gertrude the Governess, or Simple Seventeen."

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