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Shmanners

Birthdays

Shmanners

Travis McElroy

Etiquette, Society & Culture, Schmanners, Travis Mcelroy, History Of Etiquette, Teresa Mcelroy, Comedy, Mcelroy

4.72.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2016

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

It's a very special episode celebrating Teresa's birthday this week! Happy birthday Internet! Well, maybe not today but definitely at some point in the year! What is the proper way to celebrate your birthday? What about celebrating someone else's birthday> How old is too old for a party? What if you find yourself in a different country with different birthday customs? What about about going out to dinner for someone's birthday? All these answers, birthday history and even more of your birthday related questions! Enjoy and don't forget to share!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey Theresa, I got you a very special,

0:02.3

extra special, very special birthday present.

0:04.8

You did, what is it?

0:06.5

An episode of Schmanners! Oh, Hello internet.

0:29.0

welcome to Schmanners. I am your husband host Travis McElroy and I'm your wife host Theresa McElroy and as I said this is

0:35.6

Schmanners it's extraordinary etiquette for ordinary occasions oh Teresa the

0:41.3

happiest of birthdays to you.

0:43.0

Thank you very much. My birthday was on Tuesday, and I had a very enjoyable day.

0:47.0

What did we do for your birthday?

0:49.0

We went to Universal Studios, and in particular, we went to the visiting world of Harry Potter.

0:56.0

Was the best part about it that you got a happy birthday button that said

0:59.8

happy birthday Teresa so everywhere we went people would look at you and say,

1:03.4

Happy birthday Theresa. It was pretty awesome. What would you say it was your favorite part

1:08.1

of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter? I think. I think it was walking through the castle on our way to the what was the

1:21.7

name of that ride it's the yeah it's the Harry Potter and the

1:24.9

forbidden chamber or something like that something like that not not the

1:29.8

hippogriff ride which is a little roller coaster but the one where you're on the broomstick.

1:33.7

Yeah, it was absolutely magical. So we wanted to talk about some of the etiquette, the manners,

1:39.1

the history of birthdays, which is a huge topic. But so once again we'll probably specifically mostly relate

1:46.5

to like Western American celebrations but you know it's it's Teresa's birthday

1:52.1

she can do whatever you want.

1:53.6

I've got a couple of tidbits.

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