"Good gracious me, child, why ever didn't you say something before?
I went to see the studio director and he said: "I'm sorry, but these are some of the lines you'd have to say, 'My sister wears a moustache/ My brother wears a dress/ Goodness gracious, that's why I'm a mess!'" He quoted all these other great lyrics from the Gee Officer Krupke section and then said: "You've got a reputation to keep, so we've booked you on another movie".
I was engulfed in goose bumps and soaked in the breathtakingly, gracious reminder of why I had fallen in love with Egypt.
The senior ExxonMobil executive played David to the onslaught of Goliath, expressing gratitude for the Sierra Club senior executive's gracious input and explaining why the company supports a carbon tax and long ago ceased funding groups that are ideologically anti-climate.
Every Trump supporter who spoke to me was gracious and eager to explain why he or she liked Trump, why Trump was not a racist, and why they themselves were not racist.
Sanjeev Bhaskar, 38 Why: On Goodness Gracious Me, co-creator Bhaskar specialised in middle-aged fools, best known as 'Mr Cheque Please' and 'Mr Everything Comes from India'.
All of which explains why I was gracious enough to allow Sky Atlantic (a TV channel) to broadcast my forthcoming (radio) show Mid Morning Matters.
But, in the spirit of the New Year, why not be gracious about it?
Economist Mohamed El-Erian told CNBC, "It's important that Mr. Trump came out in a very gracious manner, and that's why the markets came back... .. Walt Disney Company (NYSE DIS), owner of Disney World, rose from $94.38 to $97.68 over the three days.
Next came the sunny two-movement D major Trio (1799), whose gracious charm and elegant Classicism make clear why it was initially presumed to be by Mozart.
