The Semi-Complete Guide to Sort of Being a Gentleman
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The Semi-Complete Guide to Sort of Being a Gentleman might be the most irresponsible book written since The Bible. And a bible it is, in its own right, for the billions of men alive today who have no clue how to behave in public or private situations.
Drawing from literally thousands of his countless private journals and personal scribblings, author Sir Gentleman Brock LaBorde, Esquire, this century's self-proclaimed Master of Social Etiquette, painstakingly outlines his complex and erroneous guidelines for the impossible attainment of the ambiguous title of "gentleman".
Impolitely smearing the footsteps left behind by previous well-respected etiquette gurus, this book pompously dissects all aspects of a modern gentleman's life, including:
- Knowing when to mutilate yourself
- The proper way to burp the Pope
- Inviting yourself to parties
- Extreme handkerchief maintenance
- Dispensing needless advice to strangers
The Semi-Complete Guide to Sort of Being a Gentleman is valuable for any man who wishes to learn how not to act in his everyday life. It is also valuable because a certain amount of paper, money, paper money, and other resources were used to print and distribute this book.
Brock LaBorde
Brock LaBorde is an LA-based writer/producer who's been lucky enough to create content for MTV, Comedy Central, Super Deluxe, FunnyorDie, Cracked.com, Weekly Humorist, Crackle, and Machinima. His latest project is an animated series called SpaceWorld, starring Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero. GQ called him handsome once (and only once).
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The Semi-Complete Guide to Sort of Being a Gentleman - Brock LaBorde
A Gentleman in General
A gentleman allows himself to be walked on and screwed over repeatedly without once complaining about it.
A gentleman never refers to himself as a genital-man.
A gentleman is endlessly nice and never gets laid.
A gentleman only engages in tomfoolery while in the midst of horse-playing or within 15 minutes of his last dilly-dallying.
Holding a door open for an elderly person does not make a man a gentleman. However, that and $50 in cash can make him an Honorary Gentleman
if he knows the right people.
A gentleman never playfully aims his Salad Shooter at anyone, especially a salad.
If an item is marked Not intended for individual resale,
a gentleman does not question this.
A gentleman thinks for a minimum of fifteen minutes before every sentence he utters.
Unless he is an English teacher, a gentleman does not assign homework to others. He may assign it to himself as long as he gets someone else to grade it.
A gentleman sends a nice card and flowers to himself every time he masturbates.
A gentleman applauds loudly at the end of television programs that he is fond of. At plays and concerts, he is encouraged to mimic applause by convincingly moving his hands as if he were really clapping. Funerals require no applause or celebratory shouting, unless it is a fellow gentleman’s funeral.
A gentleman always offers to share an umbrella with someone who already has one.
A gentleman always remembers to thank the chair that allowed him to occupy it, usually in the form of a thank-you letter.
A gentleman’s television watching ends promptly at ten o’clock. This should pose no problem for a true gentleman, who should have been in bed by 8:30 anyway.
The Cigar Aficionado Gentleman
A gentleman smokes a cigar in the same manner that he would drink a glass of water – whenever he is thirsty and whenever he feels the urge to do so. However, since he knows that cigar smoke is not enjoyed by everyone, the gentleman lights a few cigarettes and places them around himself to cover up the sometimes unpleasant cigar odors.
After smoking, he lights a few matches, the smell of burning sulfur helping to disguise the smell of burning tobacco. He masks the sulfur stench by spraying air freshener, then hides the air freshener with cologne, covers the cologne with perfume, and then conceals the perfume smell with Febreeze.
All floating ashes, clouds of smoke, and aerosol fogs generated during his smoke break should be sucked up into a hand-held vacuum cleaner.
Gentlemen: Good Sports about Being Bad at Sports
If a gentleman is defeated in any type of game, he immediately pouts, accuses his victorious competitor of cheating, and vows never to play the game again. This is repeated until there are no more games in the world left for him to play. Then and only then does the gentleman accept the ungentlemanly title of a sore loser.
A gentleman understands that playing football is for sissies, but playing pinochle is for gentlemen and sissies.
At the grocery checkout conveyor belt, a gentleman may make use of the plastic grocery divider stick, but only to scratch those hard-to-reach places.
If a gentleman eats in bed, he sleeps on the dining room table.
Before he attends a live sporting event, a gentleman is sure to memorize all rally chants and traditional hand gestures associated with both competing teams. This is because he understands that it is the fans’ responsibility to support the players. He also knows that it is his duty to support the fans by composing a few rousing cheers of his own, which are to be performed whenever the crowd is not cheering for either of the on-field teams.
If a gentleman despises someone, he secretly mutilates himself out of guilt. Consequently, if a gentleman is despised by someone, he secretly mutilates himself out of courtesy.
A gentleman knows that a dictionary is a place of holy worship, a thesaurus is some type of frightening bird-like dinosaur, and an encyclopedia is some tiny, undeveloped country in Africa. None of these three things should be in his possession.
There is not a good movie that a gentleman has not seen or a classic book that he has not read. He simply chooses not to discuss the themes, plots, or characters of an overwhelming majority of them.
A gentleman never enters any restroom marked with a sign that reads MEN.
If he feels the urge to cleanse his digestive tract, but can find no bathroom marked GENTLEMEN,
he opts to make use of the nearest LADIES
restroom, since ladies are essentially female versions of gentlemen.
Despite what business he is taking care of in the restroom, a gentleman always sits down on the toilet seat to avoid accidentally leaving the toilet seat in the upright position when he is finished. He also sits when using a urinal to help reinforce this good habit.
At any given time, a gentleman can cook up a mayonnaise sandwich or cup of water.
A gentleman never asks the following questions:
* Since you two are standing next to each other, does that mean you have oral sex with one another?
* Why do I think of something gross when I hear your name?
* You don’t remember my face or what I did to you a while back, do you?
* Can I see what size pants you are wearing?
* May I lick that bit of sauce off your chin?
A gentleman attributes every quote he uses to either William Shakespeare or himself.
If a gentleman speaks French, he attempts to out-French any Frenchmen he meets.
A gentleman never tells funny jokes. What tickles one man, offends another. However, everybody loves a good tickling, and the gentleman considers this to be one of his most serious and imperative tasks in life.
When questioned, a gentleman always provides direct answers, unless he is being questioned by the police because then they would surely discover his most terrible secrets and punish him accordingly.
A gentleman does not laugh at racist, sexist, or anti-gay jokes unless they are being told by a minority, a woman, or a homosexual, because then it is okay to laugh and will probably make the poor people feel better about their pathetic shortcomings.
When a gentleman is done with the dryer, he wipes up, and without the dryer knowing, he then seduces the toaster.
A gentleman waves at blind people and shouts a friendly Hullo!
to the deaf.
On a rainy day, a gentleman strives to cover every mud puddle he finds with an article of his clothing so that no one gets their shoes dirty.
A gentleman never says offensive words in the presence of people who are deaf, blind, retarded, or in a coma. He may, however, say whatever he wishes around those who are deaf, blind, retarded, and