>>>>>>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".
>>>>
>>>>"Am I capable of pardoning you for one dance?"
>>>>
>>>>("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)
>>>
>>>At dances they have some numbers where the ladies get to pick the men - called "the Ladies' Excuse me".
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>>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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>And was she some feminist or radical?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadie_Hawkins