[Sca-cooks] eating from couches or lounges

[Diana Skaggs]

At 12:30 PM 12/28/01 -0800, you wrote:
>I see no
>reason why one couldn't learn to eat politely
>reclining on a couch, if one practiced, or hanging
>from a trapeze, for that matter.
>
>Phlip

But, Phlip, if you're eating while hanging from a trapeze (I assume you're
hanging by your knees, in order for your hands to be free to feed your
face) wouldn't you be defying gravity by swallowing up?  Swallowing up - my
youngest sister's phrase for vomiting.

Liadan