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@wordsworth60 wrote:
@wordsworth60 wrote:
Pepsi, I fink I luv you . . . . .
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Sorry, I’m emotional and impressed by eruditeness . . . . . . .
You dandy ! …..
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Back to … Posh..
” The first recording of ‘posh’ in print that seems unequivocally to fit the current meaning of the word is a cartoon which contains this dialogue between an RAF officer and his mother, also in Punch, September 1918:
Oh, yes, Mater, we had a posh time of it down there.”
“Whatever do you mean by ‘posh’, Gerald?”
“Don’t you know? It’s slang for ‘swish'” “:P
“Now in modern English, the word’ manners’ means outward behavior. Of one who knows and observes the etiquette of good society and behaves politely, we say `he has good manner’s; while one who is rude and rough and clownish in his behavior, is said to have bad manners. In this sense we might say that manners make a gentleman; for gentlemanliness, in the ordinary meaning of the word, consists largely in correct, courteous and considerate behavior towards others. But mere politeness scarcely makes a man; for many a so called `gentleman’ is at heart selfish and mean, cowardly and weak. What, then, did Bishop Wickham mean when he said, `Manners Maketh man’?”
The word `manners’ had a much deeper meaning than it has today.
It did not denote merely polite behavior, but that what we should call good moral conduct, or morality. And the old Bishop means that it is good moral conduct based on sound moral principles that made boys and men, men. This shows that founder of Winchester School and New College, Oxford, did not regard education as merely mental training and the acquisition of knowledge, but especially as moral training. He wanted his school and his collage to produce true men-good, honest, fearless, God fearing men.
In other words he recognized that the only thing that really mattered in life was character. Wealth, rank, fine clothes, polite manners, learning-none of these things alone or together can make a man; it is only character that can do that. A man of character, however poor, low-born or ignorant he may be, is more of a man than millionaires, princes and scholars of no character.
School photos with a difference….
Omg having looked at some of my old school photographs …..you should see the hairstyles !
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Summer …..
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“Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.I really like this quote …. :D
He did Tinks …but he’s gone again.
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Manners maketh man.
William of Wykeham, Motto of Winchester College and New College, Oxford
(1324 – 1404)
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