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- From: mack23@avalon.eecs.nwu.edu (Chris Walsh)
- Subject: Re: A Question of Etiquette
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.224802.31783@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Sender: usenet@eecs.nwu.edu (Mr. Usenet)
- Organization: EECS Department, Northwestern University
- References: <1993Jan15.162816.19537@ads.com> <93015.141714SEK@psuvm.psu.edu> <1993Jan17.190619.9906@netcom.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:48:02 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan17.190619.9906@netcom.com> rfelix@netcom.com (Robbie Felix) writes:
-
- >A different perspective on ettiquette:
- >
- >I am paying about 150 dollars per person for the wedding I am having
- >next month. I wouldn't bother inviting *anyone* who was not extremely
- >happy about our upcoming marriage.We carefully invited people we
- >believed would share our joy. I suggest that anyone you even suspect
- >would criticize your invitation style, your dress or anything else at
- >your wedding should be eliminated from the guest list! This is a day
- >to share with people who really love you.
-
- Dude: I can "really love you" and snicker because your behavior merits
- it. Loving someone does not imply never criticizing them -- at least not
- in my book. In my opinion, couples all-too-often feel that since they
- are paying alot for a wedding, that everyone present has to behave in
- some fairy-tale choreographed manner in order for the day to be "perfect".
-
- If you spend $12,000 on a car, do you ask similar behavior of those
- who ride in it as passengers?
-
-
- Oh, to get back to the subject: Omit the "Dr." bit. Save it for when
- the guy actually needs to visit an M.D. After the receptionist refers
- to your hubby by his first name, and the physician as "Dr. So-and-so",
- THEN and only then, should "Dr." be demanded.
-
-
- Chris "Ph.D. candidate as revenge against M.D.'s" Walsh
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