Etiquette and humor

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Dear Miss Manners • I think it is so ugly to hold up your pinky while drinking tea. Do you consider it good or bad manners?

Gentle Reader • It has been both in its day, as Miss Manners recalls.

When tea was first imported to England from China, it was wildly expensive and kept locked up. It was drunk from Chinese cups, which are very thin and, for

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I have been terribly absent here and hope to fix that soon!

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Pleased to amuse ;)

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Ah, so that's why the habit of picking pinkie from drinking glass/cup can around.
Huh, I never knew why holding the littlest finger up was socially acceptable - and keeping it connected to the glass is also good manners.

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Yes, I'd wondered myself, and then happened to come across this column :)