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Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia, FrenchIsAwesome! However, your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove

This is your last warning. The next time you insert a spam link, as you did to Johnnie Walker, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted as well, preventing anyone from linking to them from any site that uses the MediaWiki spam blacklist, which includes all of Wikimedia and Wikipedia. RJASE1 ^Talk 00:29, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RJASE1: I didn't know that such links were considered spam; I was merely putting previous links in a more readable format. I apologize for violating Wikipedia conventions.

Thanks for your message (U and non-U English). I can only direct you to John Betjeman's gently humorous ditty of the title, which you can find [here]. Whatever anyone says, in England, the class structure is still very much alive, and not much changed (although I don't know anyone who says 'looking glass' any more).

Fish knives are non-U because they didn't exist before the late C19 - thus showing that your cutlery was not old, and purchased (rather than being handed down)!

Cruets are interesting. Again, I think they were not around much before the C19 (you had silver trencher-salts [[1]]). I think the idea of having salt, pepper and mustard all together in a neat little tray thing is probably rather, well, bourgeois...

As for doilies, those round paper jobs cut to look like lace, they are just too 'twee' and are definitely contrary to the down-to-earth thinking of the aristocracy.

The whole thing is a game in order to avoid non-members joining your group. I imagine the Game exists in some form or another in all societies from the English aristocracy to remote New-Guinea tribes. I find it great fun and hugely entertaining. Those with less humour find it irritating in the extreme.

No need to revert your edits as I see someone has already done so!

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