
Christopher Buckley on The History of the Social Faux Pas
The Secrets of Statecraft
The Artichoke and the Poems at Buckingham Palace
In the early 19 eightieslec lensa they remember the heroic polish leader of the solidarity movement came to buckingham palace for dinner. An artichoke was served and miste polense had never seen an artichoke. So he began to eat the s whole spine and all, probably thinking, strange people, these english. Her majesty stepped right in and said, why don't you just eat the bottom part? It takes so long to eat the leaves. I suppose that's what you call nobless oblige, isn't it? Her great grandfather, edward the seventh, had that too. He started tossing his asparant spears over his shoulder onto the floor.
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