Forget etiquette, now it's Itaquette

By John Elder
Updated November 9 2012 - 6:54pm, first published February 5 2011 - 1:15pm
"Don't put your bottom in their faces" ... Ita Buttrose's  A Guide to Australian Etiquette .
"Don't put your bottom in their faces" ... Ita Buttrose's A Guide to Australian Etiquette .

THERE are two things you learn from a book of etiquette. First, the extent to which you, the reader, are lacking courtesy, otherwise behaving poorly in public and devoid of plain sense. The second is how to thoroughly freak out the author if you were ever to meet.

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