It follows the lines of simple good manners, i.e., holding the door for someone, offering them a drink or a chair, buying them lunch, shaking their hand right away when you see them, etc. Almost any small courtesy or act of kindness falls in this category.
But the cutting edge of standup was elsewhere, courtesy of another act on that shortlist.
This year, conservative politicians took a leaf from his playbook, introducing bills like the Light Bulb Freedom of Choice Act, courtesy of Michele Bachmann, the Minnesota congresswoman, that would repeal the 2007 legislation.
The Act, courtesy of parliament member Anders Chydenius, stipulated that administrative and judiciary documents, as a rule, were public and that citizens had the right to access them.
But first, a glimpse of festival goers enjoying the sunshine and soaking up the acts, courtesy of Anna Kucera.
To be imperfect is an act of courtesy to your fellow humans.
"His bowing before the emperor of Japan was an act of courtesy," Mr. Mansingh said.
But he secretly called the judge in Georgia and got King released, thereby transforming a courtesy call into an act of statesmanship.
"What is occurring is that police officers are much more cognizant of their responsibility to act with courtesy, professionalism and respect," Police Commissioner Howard Safir said.
To the woman who found a knapsack outside the federal courthouse in Brooklyn on Thursday, taking it to the courthouse's lost and found office might have seemed like a simple act of courtesy.
