>>>>>>>Yeah. I'm still waiting for a waiter or waitress to say, "No."
>>>>>>
>>>>>>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".
>>>
>>>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.
>>
>>And was she some feminist or radical?
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadie_HawkinsI guess no one gets picked for "The Gay Gordons" :-)
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
