Please bring it on, winner takes all".
EF Benson left a little more of a canon than this: please, bring it on, and leave Downton looking like the Titanic after the feet got damp.
"Please bring China on board," said Nuhu Ribadu, the former head of the economic and financial crimes commission in Nigeria who helped uncover widespread looting by its regime when General Sani Abacha ruled the country.
In 1982 he created one of the funniest farces ever, Noises Off (now transferring to London's Novello theatre – please, please, please bring it out on tour).
"Please bring the lady one green tea," went the request.
By the testimony, Ms. Ryder not once, but twice, asked solicitous helpers hovering outside separate dressing rooms to please bring her a Coke on the afternoon of Dec. 12, 2001, when she was in the midst of what authorities say was a $5,560 shoplifting spree.
If possible, please bring along a camera on the first day and click pictures in school of the class, the facilitator, of other kids, etc and show them to the child at home.
Just say: "Please bring your own towel from now on.
Exhibit A: "Dear Mom, Please bring two pairs of long pants on Visiting Day -- whatever is in my bottom drawer is fine -- along with C batteries (6), a deck of cards, any copies of Seventeen that came in the mail after I left and more stamps".
