Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude PeopleOpen Road + Grove/Atlantic, 1 gru 2007 - 280 An “extremely funny” take on the decline of civility, from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of How the Hell Did This Happen? (The Plain Dealer). In Modern Manners, cultural guru P. J. O’Rourke provides the essential accessory for the truly contemporary man or woman—a rulebook for living in a world without rules. Traditionally, good manners were a means of becoming as bland and invisible as everyone else, thus avoiding calling attention to one’s own awkwardness and stupidity. Today, with everyone wanting to appear special, stupidity is at a premium, and manners—as outrageous and bizarre as possible—are a wonderful way to distinguish ourselves, or at least have a fine time trying. This irreverent and hilarious guide to anti-etiquette offers pointed advice on topics from sex and entertaining to reading habits and death. With the most up-to-date forms of vulgarity, churlishness, and presumption, the latest fashions in discourtesy and barbarous display, O’Rourke is our guide to the art of incivility. “Modern Manners is O’Rourke doing what he has always done: making hilarious, insightful, often vicious fun of the world and all its inhabitants.” —People “A reader who rushes through [Modern Manners] from cover to cover—like I did—will feel like a child who has gorged on chocolate cake: happy, but a bit disappointed that it’s all gone. The reason O’Rourke’s book is so successful, however, is not just his great sense of humor. O’Rourke’s writing has a cutting edge behind it, which makes a reader’s laughter just a bit thought-provoking, and just a bit rueful . . . Very funny.” —Chicago Tribune |
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When to Sit Down and When to Roll Over | 32 |
Table Manners | 40 |
Acting Up | 50 |
Drinking | 56 |
How modern people have stopped taking drugs and where they | 68 |
MEN WOMEN AND OTHER PEOPLE | 85 |
The Horrible Wedding | 139 |
The Hip Funeral | 160 |
THE ENTERTAINING PART OF LIFE | 173 |
Going Out | 191 |
LEAST ENTERTAINING | 201 |
Social Correspondence | 210 |
The Servants | 218 |
CLOTHING | 231 |
Advice for Modern Men | 91 |
Where Babies Come from and Where They | 111 |
After Marriage | 119 |
FORMAL ETIQUETTE | 125 |
Womens Clothes | 250 |
Travel Etiquette | 275 |
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Strona 7 - I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you — Nobody — too? Then there's a pair of us! Dont tell! they'd banish us — you know! How dreary — to be — Somebody! How public — like a Frog — To tell your name — the livelong June — To an admiring Bog!
Strona 1 - O let us love our occupations, Bless the squire and his relations, Live upon our daily rations, And always know our proper stations...
Strona 22 - Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.