Debutante Balls and Cotillions

Shmanners

Travis McElroy

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

4.7 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2016

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Hello Internet! Well, you've finally reached that age and it is time for you to debut! How do you debut you ask? Well, have you taken you dance classes? What about your etiquette classes? Have you reached "maturity"? You see, DEBUTANTE BALLS and COTILLIONS are all about entering society. Lord Byron referred to them as "marriage marts" and he wasn't far off! We'll give you the history of balls and cotillions and we'll even give you a play by play of a modern day ball! Enjoy and don't forget to share!

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0:00.0	Excuse me, madam, but may I have this dance?
0:04.0	Sorry, my dance card's already full.
0:07.0	Oh, but you're my wife.
0:09.0	Sorry.
0:10.0	It's manners! Oh, Hello internet and welcome I'm your husband host Travis McElroy and I'm your wife host Theresa McElroy and you're listening to Schmanners
0:46.4	It's extraordinary etiquette for ordinary occasions. You know what Theresa we take one week off and I almost forgot how the intro went.
0:55.0	Well, we did take a week off and we needed it badly.
0:58.0	We are finally in our Cincinnati apartment.
1:02.0	And it's... in our Cincinnati apartment.
1:03.6	And it's coming together quite nicely.
1:06.6	It is.
1:07.6	We are still Sam's Internet.
1:09.8	Sons Internet?
1:11.2	Sons Internet?
1:11.8	We're without internet.
1:13.2	So that is why we are doing an episode without any
1:16.9	of the questions segment. We're just going to talk about like the history and the
1:21.0	thing. So it's going to be a little bit shorter.
1:22.7	We should have internet back by next Thursday,
1:25.6	so hopefully we'll be back to a regular format.
1:29.2	But you know, we don't want to miss another week.
1:30.8	And also, this topic is one that we've talked about doing for a while
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