There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection IS the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted.

Traditionally, a luncheon is a lunch that takes an eon.

'Dear Miss Manners: Does joint custody mean I always have to be polite to someone I can't stand?

'Dear Miss Manners: How is a hat correctly worn?

Bocca basciata non perde ventura, anzi rinnuova come fa la luna.

'Step in some afternoon,' he said, as affectionately as if I were a fellow-shipmaster wrecked on the lee shore of age like himself.

'You don't remember when you was my sweetest? You don't remember I called you Reese's Pieces? 'Cause there's no wrong way to do you know what!'