From: kehoea@parhasard.net   
      
    Ar an naoiú lá de mí Deireadh Fómhair, scríobh Ross Clark:   
      
    > Sorry, a bit late today, but there's not much here.   
    > Fielding (author of _Tom Jones_ etc.) wrote an early booklet, _Essay on   
    > Conversation_, which is advice on how to manifest "good breeding" when   
   taking   
    > part in conversation.   
      
   Is Dale Carnegie in the book somewhere? He wrote books full of good advice,   
   much of which was language-oriented, and all of which had much more cultural   
   currency than this essay.   
      
    > Don't   
    > 	- talk more than your share   
    > 	- lose your temper or raise your voice   
    > 	- boast   
    > 	- talk a lot about the "mysteries" of a profession   
    > 		to which most of the company do not belong.   
    > 		(He thinks lawyers - of which he was one -   
    > 		are particularly guilty of this.)   
      
   --   
   ‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /   
   How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’   
   (C. Moore)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)