Poor Table Manners Lead to Stabbings at TG dinner

[Rose Siding]

WORCESTER, Mass. -- A man was charged with stabbing two relatives after they allegedly criticized his table manners during Thanksgiving dinner.

Police said the fight broke out Thursday when Gonzalo Ocasio, 49, and his 18-year-old son, Gonzalo Jr., reprimanded Frank Palacious for picking at the turkey with his fingers, instead of slicing off pieces with a knife.

Palacious, 24, described by police only as an uncle, allegedly responded by stabbing them with a carving knife.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-thanksgiving-stabbings,0,3797093.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Maybe he was trying to emulate the Pilgrims

Eating with the fingers was the way it was done in 1620. The first fork didn't make it to these shores for nine years, and then was looked upon with suspicion. People commonly used their knifes and fingers to slice off pieces of meat, which they placed on a carved out piece of wood called a trencher. The napkins were as huge as big dishtowels are today, because they were used to wipe the grease off the fingers. Baskets called voiders were used to place bones, bits of gristle, etc.

[Radical Activist]

4. you majored in history didn't you?

we have people like you in my family.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

7. Believe it or not, no

My major was education, my minor art. I just like history.

[Radical Activist]

18. Me too

History is a lot of fun. It was my minor in college.

[Radical Activist]

2. Yes, but did he use the proper knife when he stabbed them?

[chiffon]

11. mm-hmmm

too funny!

[TheDebbieDee]

3. :snicker: I'm sorry..............Bwahhhhhhhhh

[Deja Q]

5. Well, that redefines the condiment known as Worcester sauce...

:puke:

[progdonkey]

6. Worcestershire... n/t

[flvegan]

10. What's bizarre, is that it's pronounced "wooster", or if you live

In the Boston area, "woostah"

Don't confuse it with Dorchester, which is pronounced as spelled (again, in the Boston area, it's "doachestah"

[wellstone dem]

8. I just emailed this to my sister

with a thanks that she didn't stab me when I took the green beans with my fingers.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

9. I think it's in very poor taste to stab someone at the dinner table

Signed,

Miss Manners

[skygazer]

12. Well, they wanted him to use a knife n/t

[miss_kitty]

13. When I worked in retail I would be massively tired for holiday meals

For some reason, my dad thought it was necessary to point out my 'Table Manner Fuck-ups', like not sitting up straight or forward at the table, an inability to keep up conversation ("shut up asshat! I'm trying to not slouch. Or absent-mindedly, due to sheer exhaustion, rest my forearms or elbows on the fucking sacred table top!"). In my 30s. In front of everyone. After working weeks of 12-14 hour days. With the public. An hour past closing on Christmas Eve.

One year I shut him the fuck up for good. "So it's good manners, then, for YOU to criticise MY manners? Look Dad, your girlfriend is resting HER elbows on the table. Are you going to tell her about it?" I asked.

:evilgrin:

I never thought of stabbing him thought. THAT would have been rude.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

14. So much for POLITICS being divisive, eh?

[dolo amber]

15. Ach...I thought this would mean

that someone stabbed the one with the crap table manners...now THAT I could undertand. :P

[slackmaster]

16. How rude, unkosher, and unsanitary

Everyone knows you should never use a food-handling utensil on something that isn't food. If you must stab someone over Thanksgiving dinner you must use your own personal knife.

Call PolitenessMan.

[mr.jack]

17. Good question for Miss Manners

What would be the proper etiquette after the stabbing?