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  • This question SHOULD have gone to Miss Manners

    [Read the article: Would you please get out of my swimming pool!]
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    ... She would have given a better response.

    Lots of good ideas posted here.

    As for Cary's dismissal of Miss Manners, though, ditto Bsloane and others ... It gets tiresome when people trash the idea of etiquette with a boastful comment in the vein of, "Well, manners are all well and good for those fussy types -- I, on the other hand, never bother with them because I'm so honest and 'real'."

    Being thoughtless doesn't mean you're any more "real." It means you're rude.

    And being polite doesn't equate to being a doormat.

    LW doesn't need to be a doormat, either. She should take a cue from some of these suggestions.

    Wednesday, March 26, 2008 05:30 PM

  • The omitted column

    [Read the article: The strange case of midnight renegade oleander gentrification camouflage]
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    So can someone PLEASE at least tell me the topic of this mysteriously excised letter from today?

    Wednesday, March 26, 2008 08:52 PM

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