Lessons in Etiquette, Vol 7 Cont’d

Dear Friends,
Today we discuss the Lesson in Etiquette presented to you earlier this week. As you may recall, the setting was as follows:
At a tavern late one evening, you have offered The Gentlemen a pair of complimentary beverages. The Gentlemen, having already accepted and imbibed several, and well on their way to an [...]

Lessons in Etiquette, Vol 6

Dear Internet,
As a consequence of our chosen profession, that of itinerant merry-makers, my dear Councilman and I pass many hours rolling upon the highway.  It is a romantic image, we realize:  Two well-dressed men, a minivan full of kazoos and novelty instruments, a can of Sparks Light or two, and a crowd of 12-15 murmuring [...]

An Etiquette Violation!

Dear Internet,
I shall now spend several troubling minutes considering my head wear.  As you may know, friends, The Councilman and I have gained modest renown in a majority of these United States for two predominant reasons.
(1) We wear finer hats, and look better in them, than any comparable old-fashioned music duo and (2) We consider [...]

Lessons in Etiquette, Volume 5

Dear Internet,
It behooves a gentleman to cultivate special skills that distinguish him from the common citizen. Gentlemen of old directed their attention to swordplay and marksmanship, demonstrating their erudition by poking holes in each other. It was a simpler epoch, and one that we long for. Dueling, however, has gone out of [...]

Lessons in Etiquette, Vol 4

Dear Internet,
The Gentlemen now offer a brief lesson in “Etiquette on the Motorways.” As is our custom, we suggest general principles with a pregnant example.
The scene: It is a pleasant late-summer Sunday, early in the evening. My gentleman partner and I, having just completed one of our [...]

Lessons in Etiquette, Vol 3

Dear Internet:
As the reader is likely aware, the gentleman of old settled his disputes with fisticuffs, sabers, and pistols. And rightly so, say we! For what better way to punish a brute’s vulgar language or peculiar glances than to offer him a thorough pounding?
But alas, dainty forces have overtaken the judiciary, and a [...]

Lessons in Etiquette, Vol 2

Dear Internet:
The Gentlemen have done well by the world, I think. And I must confess, friends, that as a result a new and warmish feeling has found home within me. It is a pleasant warmth, dry and airy. A soothing wind of satisfaction, wafting twixt and ‘tween my entrails, greeting each with a “good [...]

Lessons in Etiquette, Vol. 1

Dear Internet:
Etiquette. Though it is music-making that brings us dollars, it is the gentlemanly art of etiquette that makes us men. And were the Lord to smite us two gentlemen, withering our musical hands with his heavenly blazes, we would still, I’m sure, make our daily journey to the park; not to fiddle with [...]