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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Your white tie parties sound more fun than mine (or your host has a more messy sense of humor) if they are giving you french onion soup.
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Sense of humor has something to do with it. I once attended a dinner seminar put on by my college's Career Services office designed to prepare us uncouth future graduates for the demanding world of luncheon job interviews. Thus, the menu was a parade of etiquette horribles. French onion soup, followed by oversized endive salad, then fish course, followed by roast chicken on the bone, asparagus in hollandaise, highly crusted rolls, whole baked potato, followed by a poached pear (served, of course, with fork and spoon).
It was supposed to be like a ropes course for the extremely delicate. If they had thrown in corn on the cob, I probably would have started weeping at the metaphorical foot of the climbing wall, like that chick from "An Officer and a Gentleman." Or for that matter every movie about basic training. They all have the Chick Who Cries Because She Can't Climb the Wall.
