[lit-ideas] Re: The Other Hand
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 22:03:17 EDT
In a message dated 6/28/2004 9:56:37 PM Eastern Standard Time,
JulieReneB@xxxxxxx writes:
<<Bush had planned to say 'I am honoured to shake this man's
brave remaining hand - I've shaken a lot of brave hands, folks, and sometimes
you don't even have sureness as to what hand to shake. But today that wasn't
a problem'.>>
Yikes. All they had to do was cut out the pseudo-comedic-folksy part of
"having sureness" and it's not being a problem.
----
Actually, an expert in etiquette tells me that the right thing to do is to
shake the (upper) arm (from where the hand was cut off), rather than to shake
the other (existing) hand.
Cheers,
JL
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