EPISODE 56: Spanking the Sofa

Quieting chatty passengers. Is it ever Too Much Trouble to give someone a ride? And there are WAY too many people dropping food in listeners' cars.

Relevent Links:
Trent left a Christmas Manners Wish List over at the Just Not Right Podcast where Jake is just not finished wrapping up his 25 days of podcasting for December.

Brazil

Mathematics

Ranch Dressing (so you know how serious this is!)

The Matrix

Illegal Proceedure foul in American Football


Vocabulary Guide:

Medical Taster (origin: England) In episode #31 Tara talks about a program for students who would are interested in learning more about what it might be like to go to medical school.

Spanking the Sofa (origin: Brazil) In episode #56 Tatiana coins the phrase "spanking the sofa" to mean that she was trying to beat some bran candy out of her car seat. What "Spanking the Sofa" really means is "Wasting Time".

Immaculate Hand (origin: The MannersCast) In episode #53 we learn about a phenomenal salesman who incessantly grooms his hand so it is ready for the moment when he seals "the big deal" with a shake of his Immaculate Hand.

Spot Crossing (origin: The MannersCast) Episode #8 gives us this gem which is used to describe the act of driving one's car over the spaces (or "spots") instead of the legal way which is up and down the rows.



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EPISODE 55: The Stupid Fee

Dumping your Exes and Dressing for Successes!

Relevent Links:
The NEW Rules Advice Blog

Exes

Suit Etiquette for Women

Nashville, TN on Wikipedia

Nashville, TN visitor's bureau

"The South" of the USA

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