Mind you p's and q's....

[Bbbananas]

Can't be bothered to google - so anyone know what the p and q stands for? Obviously it's something to do with manners & all that jazz. I've just used the expression in zzxxee's post below, then thought - what does it mean exactly?

[ChuckFickens]

Mind your pints and quarts.

[Bbbananas]

Really? Good advice - when it comes to alcohol chuck - advice I should have taken....
:-)

p.s. Is that a rather large Cuban?

[squarebear]

pints and quarts

[ethandron]

maybe something to do with pints and quarts in a pub.
maybe something to do with typesetting - p and q looking the same back to front.
maybe please and thank you.

[bibblebub]

Brewer's online reckons it to do with dances and wigs http://www.infoplease...ry/brewers/ps-qs.html

but in print two alternatives that they give are:

1. getting children to not be confused between the letters p and q
2 printers' apprentices being careful

[bibblebub]

(and the pints and quarts thing)

[Bbbananas]

I always thought it was please & thank-Q.......

Chuck - and what a fine handmaiden she looks to be. I can imagine those inner thighs of hers are as firm as....errr... can possibly be. ;-)

[joggerjayne]

Mind your P(lease) and thank Qs.

ie. be mindful of using good manners.

[jno]

nobody knows

http://www.phrases.or...d-your-ps-and-qs.html

[ChuckFickens]

Eh?

Why did my second answer get removed?

[Bbbananas]

Dunno chuck - it was innocuous enough. And mine has stayed - so it cannot be the mention of maidens' thighs, surely?

[bigfoot3000]

Remember the ed going on the other day about the "Late ed" like he had passed or fallen into another state of mind.......Chuck when you start getting answers removed or suspended/banned then it's time for all of us to start feeling scared!