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		<title>Social Climber: Lend a Helping Hand</title>
		<link>http://www.socialprimer.com/2009/09/social-climber-lend-a-helping-hand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Belaying &#8211; is a climbing technique of securing the climber during his climb. First let’s get this out of the way right at the beginning. There are many people out there who say Social Climber like it’s a bad thing. SP has never thought this way. Hello, there is no mistake that Social Primer rhymes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SP Hit List: Think Before You Leap</title>
		<link>http://www.socialprimer.com/2009/05/think-before-you-leap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 21:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SP</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://socialprimer.com/?p=890</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[He was dressed like a gentleman, but his behavior gave a truer indication of him than did his garments. &#8211;Manners for Men, Mrs. Humphry, 1897 At a recent dinner party SP was seated next to a beautiful and successful woman in full control of interesting conversation peppered with amusing anecdotes. Her date seated across from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Air Kiss</title>
		<link>http://www.socialprimer.com/2009/04/kiss-my-air/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  A reader asks, “SP, how do you cheek-kiss a woman to greet her?” My first reaction to this question was to ask if you suddenly are about to find yourself at a fashion show or a high society ball? This act of cheek-kissing – or double kissing or air kissing as it sometimes called [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>VIP: Very (Easily) Impressed People</title>
		<link>http://www.socialprimer.com/2009/01/vip-very-easily-impressed-people/</link>
		<comments>http://www.socialprimer.com/2009/01/vip-very-easily-impressed-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SP</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pretension]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://socialprimer.com/?p=326</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[SP cannot tolerate a VIP room, the ideal or the reality. What is the point? Whether I am cosseted inside rubbing shoulders with the self-appointed beau monde or huddled outside with the hoi polloi, it makes no matter.  People who want to associate with people they think are as good as they are (unlikely) or [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Present of Presence</title>
		<link>http://www.socialprimer.com/2008/12/the-present-of-presence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.socialprimer.com/2008/12/the-present-of-presence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cooper</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://socialprimer.com/?p=264</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[  During the holidays, it can be so easy to get wrapped up &#8212; as it were &#8212; in the cost of things that we end up missing the real spirit of the season. There seems to be a competitive necessity to outspend or at least match the value of a gift expected or already [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SP Hit List: P. Elegance</title>
		<link>http://www.socialprimer.com/2008/12/p-elegance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.socialprimer.com/2008/12/p-elegance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cooper</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://socialprimer.com/?p=217</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever been dining in a restaurant and some member of your party makes everyone at the table uncomfortable by being rude to the server? Although it is not a common occurrence, I admit I have been witness to such behavior. In fact during a recent dinner at a very fine restaurant, a member [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Royal We (Pluralis Majestatis)</title>
		<link>http://www.socialprimer.com/2008/09/the-royal-we-pluralis-majestatis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.socialprimer.com/2008/09/the-royal-we-pluralis-majestatis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 08:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SP has a confession — and correction – to make. As the the tone of these pages has developed, the astute reader may have noticed that the pronouns are slipping all over the place. What started as an outlet of exasperated expression (and aggravation relief), SocialPrimer was almost always written in first person. Then as the audience grew, SP became a little alarmed by the increasing limelight [...]]]></description>
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