What “Excuse Me” Really Means, the Hefeweizen Principle, and the Bar Order Apotheosis
The Dave Chang Show
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The Origins of Excuse Me
"If you're at a room full of people, you're farting, excuse me. What are you, man?" "I think you get to the origins of why, excuse me, was invented as the polite way of saying, oh, I'm sorry," he says. "'Excuse me' is actually just for farting,' right? It's because I'm saying,. excuse me, you don't fart and then say, excuse me." He adds: 'You really, if you do that, you try to blame it on somebody else.'
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