GENTLE READER: The rule you refer to is a social rule, as distinct from a business rule. And a meal at a restaurant -- and, by extension, a meal on an airplane, even in first class -- is a commercial ...

If you’ve ever wanted to turn your living room into your own personal movie theater—or host a backyard screening of Top Gun: ...

If "what you do for a living" is brought up, and someone works for a religious institution, wouldn't it be odd to ignore that?

Miss Manners agrees that it would be unkind to treat clergy as pariahs in conversation as soon as they mention what they do. And she will overlook the rule about discussing professions in the moment - ...