Originally published at: Competitive table setters do it for the honor and the glory | Boing Boing
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This should be on THE OCHO
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“Regency is so hot this year. I’d like to say its because of Jane Austen, but its probably because of Bridgerton” (rolls eyes).
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Oh, but the prestige and the glory
Another human interest story
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I said “whhhhaaaa?” And then I remembered myself watching competitive cornhole tournaments on TV during pandemic…
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Believe it or not, I did a Butler’s course many years ago.
You had to use your thumb on the edge of the table to measure the distance from the edge of the table to the handle of the silverware.
When more than one person was setting the table, half the distances would be out, because, of course, different sized digits.
I believe this is also where the phrase “Rule of Thumb” comes from. (I could be wrong).
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I watched a couple seasons of Below Deck… One of my main takeaways was that when I become a millionaire yacht owner/renter, I don’t want anyone stressing over the ridiculous table setting. Plates, water, booze… the crew can use the extra time to sleep or read or whatever.
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I love this kind of stuff. No one is getting massive amounts of cash to do it, everyone is having a good time, it’s simple enough anyone can try their hand at it. I’ve been avoiding the local county fairs for the past few years (obvious reasons) but this is the sort of stuff I’d go to enjoy, along with the other arts, crafts, and farm produce/animal stuff. Okay, maybe a tractor pull or two as well. But you know, real farm tractors, not those modified, silly, monstrosities.
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This is so much fun, I love that there are people in this world who are doing these kinds of things, even though I never would.
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Yes, I had to roll the video back and snap a screenshot of that eye roll! Thanks for saving me the effort of typing out that quote. ^_____^
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Amen. Good clean fun - whatever floats your boat is fine with me.
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Appropriately enough there is a genre of literature known as the “silver fork novel.”
In the early nineteenth century there was a sudden vogue for novels centering on the glamour of aristocratic social and political life. Such novels, attractive as they were to middle-class readers, were condemned by contemporary critics as dangerously seductive, crassly commercial, designed for the ‘masses’ and utterly unworthy of regard. Until recently, silver-fork novels have eluded serious consideration and been overshadowed by authors such as Jane Austen. They were influenced by Austen at their very deepest levels, but were paradoxically drummed out of history by the very canon-makers who were using Austen’s name to establish their own legitimacy. This first modern full-length study of the silver-fork novel argues that these novels were in fact tools of persuasion, novels deliberately aimed at bringing the British middle classes into an alliance with an aristocratic program of political reform.
I haven’t read any of it, but apparently Edward Bulwer Lytton contributed to the genre.
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