[After a question concerning Burmese etiquette]
While double-checking this ... on the Internet, we came up with the extraordinary information that it's considered polite to express joy by eating snow and to send unwanted guests away by biting their leg, an normal behaviour to wipe your mouth on the sofa. This is actually true, the researchers were wrtiting this down with great excitement about Burma, only to discover in the end that Burma turned out to be the name of a poodle belonging to the author of the website
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