• A gentleman must never expose his penis before 4.30pm.
• When late for a meeting it is considered polite to arrive dressed as a spaceman and riding a pig or small donkey.
• People who live in odd numbered houses should retire to bed early on the third Tuesday in every month.
• When inserting jam up a lady's nostrils, the considerate gentleman always warms the spoon.
• Trousers should always be worn below the waist.
• In the summer months, when it is excessively hot, a gentlemen may be excused a collar, but it is still considered extremely discourteous for him to roll up his carpets.
• Widdling in your young niece's soup is not a sign of familial affection.
• When being slapped silly by an elderly aunt, it is considered sporting to let her have two or three good swings at you before you smack her in the mouth.
• Audible farts should never be applauded, unless accompanied by a chorus of the national anthem.
• Wind instruments should never be given on the occasion of an engagement, although a trumpet makes a perfectly adequate gift for a 21st birthday.
• It is customary to seek the advice of a bishop before suspending a woman by her nipples.
• It is the height of bad manners to light one's cigar from a burning hat.
• A gentleman never fouls himself upwind of a waitress.
• At dinner parties it is considered impolite to sit in the middle of the table, stark bollock naked, ladling soup over oneself and whistling 'Land of Hope and Glory'.   This sort of behaviour should be confined to the gentleman's club.
• A gentleman never wears his hat in the bath.
• Whilst abroad, a gentleman should never go swimming without a tie.
• It is perfectly acceptable for a gentleman to headbut unruly children in the absence of their parents.
• It is discourteous to belch in a built-up area after 7pm.
• When meeting a lady for the first time, a gentleman's head should remain attached to his body at all times.  Decapitation should be reserved for subsequent assignations, and then only when a close relative is in attendance to act as chaperone.
• A respectable gent would never attend a lunch engagement wearing a chicken on his head.   Such arrant tomfoolery is not tolerated by polite society, and it is not something that the chicken particularly looks forward to either.
• Never eat lemons on a Saturday.
• Ramming a snooker cue up your sister-in-law's nose is frowned upon in most parts of Greater Manchester.
• In most cheap brothels it is customary to pass the floozy to the right.

and finally

• Generally speaking, it is not considered suitable for a man of ambition to spend twenty years of his life sitting in a shed at the bottom of his garden, learning to lick his own elbows.  So cut it out, okay?