Better to be spit on than to act dastardly. And speaking of spitting, it is time to spit out my sampling of Port Wine. I am afraid if the alcohol actually enters my body it might cause me to act impolite.
Tah-Tah. I must return now to traipsing about Europe and reading Evelyn Waugh Cliff Notes.
***During WWII Churchill once submitted a draft of an important wartime speech to the British Foreign Office for comment which was returned to him with no comment whatever on content. But where he had ended a sentence with a preposition a Foreign Office purist had careted the preposition into its stiffly grammatical position.
At this the Prime Minister flew into a lather. To the offending purist he dispatched a note: "This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put!"****Louis J. Alber, Current History and Forum (^: