Showing posts with label Character Actor Pat Buttram on Etiquette. Show all posts
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Monday, November 11, 2024

Etiquette’s 1970s’ Decline Skewered

Pat Buttram was best known for his acting role as the sidekick of Gene Autry, but also as the slick, snake-oil type salesman, Mr. Haney, on the 1960’s television comedy, “Green Acres.” – Public domain image of character actor Pat Buttram

 

Pat BuTTram Sez

Politeness, just ain't around anymore. Yesterday on a bus, a man got up and gave a lady his seat, and she fainted. Then she came to and thanked him, and he fainted.

I was always taught etiquette in our home. We were so high class we used to eat our chewing gum with a knife and fork.

I guess you could say good breeding is what enables a person to wait at the lunch counter in well-mannered silence while a loudmouth gets all the service.

Now real class is the ability to describe Raquel Welch without using your hands.

But there's one lesson in etiquette you should remember. Never let a lady pick up the check. Always pick it up and hand it to her. –National City Star-News, 1977




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