>>>>Yeah. I'm still waiting for a waiter or waitress to say, "No."
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>>>Or "I don't know what your abilities at obtaining are".
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>>"Am I capable of pardoning you for one dance?"
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>>("to pardon" was a local expression for tossing a pickup line, because each one of them began with "pad'me mam, but..."... 150 years ago)
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>At dances they have some numbers where the ladies get to pick the men - called "the Ladies' Excuse me".
In the U.S. we have 'Sadie Hawkins' dances where the lady asks the gentleman to the dance. Sometimes, dance numbers at non-Sadie-Hawkins dances are called 'Sadie Hawkins dance' or 'Ladies Choice' numbers where the lady asks the gentleman of her choice to dance.
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