For example, in Paris, if one desires to buy something, you enter the store and say "Good morning, sir" or "madam," depending on what is appropriate, you wait until you are greeted, you make polite chitchat about the weather or some such, and when the salesperson asks what they can do for you, then and only then do you bring up the vulgar business of the transaction you require.

Craig Ferguson

Tags: manners paris france



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Time is only linear for engineers and referees.

Craig Ferguson

Tags: time existentialism relativity



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between safety and adventure I choose adventure

Craig Ferguson


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I think people are as individual as snowflakes, they kinda look alike but no two are the exactly the same, and all classification is the root of prejudice.

Craig Ferguson

Tags: unique prejudice uniqueness snowflakes people-skills late-late-show



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man plans god laughs

Craig Ferguson


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Hey dawg, wassup?" he said, in the strange way that white talent agents from Los Angeles do in an attempt to sound like young black men from underprivileged backgrounds. A linguistic fashion as peculiar as the lisp that everybody in medieval Spain had to adopt after the king developed a speech impediment.

Craig Ferguson

Tags: language



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