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[lonesomepioneer]

Easily the best thing about wedding planning so far, besides registering for china glazed with melted-down flawed Baccarat crystal: the discovery of Miss Manners, now my heroine and ginormous girlcrush. I need some stationary monogrammed with my initials so I can write courteous, properly worded notes in flowing script (note to self: cultivate

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[ariiadne]

Miss Manners is my heroine, too. I spent many years thinking she was just some stuffy advice columnist, not realizing that she's amazingly witty and all around brilliant. I love it.

[incidentist]

Interesting. So, if guys learned to talk like that, we could sort of ditch the (accurate) stereotype of not giving a shit about wedding plans.

[polyhymnia]

If you like Miss Manners, I bet you would love Cheryl Mendelson, author of Home Comforts.

[lonesomepioneer]

Ooh! I definitely need that book! Thanks! :)

By the way-- happy birthday!!!

[polyhymnia]

Thank you! :-) You'll be pleased to hear that courtesy of my boss I will finally be joining the knitting cult, since she gave me knitting stuff for my birthday.

[ashfae]

Miss Manners is faaaaaaaabulous.

That said I still vote for your long-ago plan of having cutouts of Zhang Ziyi and James Marsters. ;)

[mcausland]

I'm right keen to fuck a girl who talks like this, so we can play on the contrast thing. To date, I have only vaguely managed a few southern accented posh ones, [though the doctor thing is close! unfortunately Natalie is too down to earth and used to talking to idiot patients to sound that posh] - Laura (girl I liked and was too foolish/young/angry to keep around, though she made life very easy for me when she could have made life very hard) yeah, Laura used to... raise her eyebrows at me and say, "Michael..." in the most queen's english way imaginable, and I would instantly take all of her clothes off.