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How to Make Dinner Conversation

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“The first thing which we ought to obserue at the table is to weigh the estimation and callinge of every geast, and the next to take occasion when he seeth it offred to… minister… profitable and delightsome Questions… First therefore and foremost, this may bee demaunded:

Thomas Twyne, The Schoolemaster, or Teacher of Table Philosophie, excerpts

Nothing makes for delightsome dinner conversation like an endless barrage of questions about drink, digestion, and flatulence. Doth wine hurt the brayne? Who knows, but these questions sure do.