31.   It is considered bad manners simply to dive into an existing conversation.

32.   It is bad manners to ask a Texas rancher the size of his spread.

33.   It is bad political manners to speculate about the next election before this one has even been decided.

34.   Is this a question of my bad manners?

35.   It is not the first instance of bad manners here lately.

36.   It was, people here said, bad manners at the very least.

37.   Judging from a recent study at the University of Michigan, the average American workplace is a seething cauldron of bad manners, hurt feelings and poorly masked hostility.

38.   Keep in mind, also, that complaining about bad manners is as old as bad manners themselves.

39.   Luntz said that even while people complained about the bad manners of other technological junkies, they committed many of the same breaches of etiquette.

40.   Moving the mouth would get rid of silverware, bad manners and pizza goobers on white shirts.