>>And how human and understanding she was in returning the touch with her hand in Michelle's back. I think the last person to have made such a gaff was the last Ozzy prime minister who guided her into position with his hand in the small of her back.
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>>I unsuspectingly committed a similar gaff if Thailand by touching a Buddhist monk while we chatted.
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>I don't see why that should be taken as a gaff. Somehow you're supposed to know how to address everyone in every hierarchy, what to do and what not to do in every club imaginable, or else what?

I later read that it is bad form to touch a bhuddist priest. Maybe he had to endure a cleansing ritual afterwards or something.