Welcome to the Dinner Party Download. I'm Rico Galeano.

I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum, and usually on this show we give you unconventional stuff to talk about at a dinner party.

But it occurred to us that all that information won't help much if we don't know how to behave ourselves.

That's right. So today, it's a special episode we're getting etiquette advice from Broadway legend Elaine Stritch,

best known for starring in Steven Sondheim's company and recently for her role as Jack Donahey's

mother on NBC's 30 Rock.

Elaine, thanks for joining us.

Thank you for asking me to come here and try to be adorable on your show.

It's already working.

Yeah, you already succeeded.

It's working? Oh, isn't that a delight?

So I get my dollar and a half to go home, right?

That's right.

Sure do. Public radio money.

So look, our audience is teaming with questions about how to behave, and for some reason,

we're going to ask you to help them.

All right.

Our first question comes from Lizzie in Washington, D.C. Lizzie says, people throw around the word ladylike a lot when they're talking about etiquette.

What does it mean, and should I aspire to be it?

Ah, now that's a good question.

Number one, I love the expression ladylike.

It's very cockney.

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