manservant

If your manservant brings a telegram during a soiree your guests expect you to pause to read it and respond.

The 1% might then have infinite leisure, while the rest of the population would have to do whatever work they demanded (manservant?

You play as Phileas Fogg's manservant, who has to manage the whole travel.

Butler: 1: a manservant having charge of the wines and liquors.

I think if someone had a manservant bring him his phone following a notification, I might let him look at it too...

Maybe I believe that I can't live decently without a yacht and manservant.

The thing we were just discussing with avions de chasses, why is that intrinsically misogynistic while the similarly themed ManServant startup is not intrinsically misandrist?

[27] And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

Let's suppose I had a mestiza mistress, a mulatto manservant, a dozen black fieldworkers, and a Chinese wash woman, and a white wife, all under a white supremacist patriarchy.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

Exodus 20:17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

The elite discovered that the accumulation of slaves was a practical problem, because their customary service as cook or manservant or sexual partner took them out of the fields, and first currency crises were born: It was recognized that if the fields were left fallow, this was a worse outcome for all than the property of the elites not being sacrosanct.

It'd be like "I was curious about this internet thing everyone is talking about, so I asked my manservant to try it out for 10 min".

At the same time, I found myself thinking: Is this the equivalent of a Gilded Age course on "How to be a good manservant or lady's maid".

I am reminded of one of my favourite sitcoms - Blackadder (shortly after burning Dr Johnson's only manuscript of the Dictionary, and realising it will take ten years to re-create): "No, I love the dictionary, and would like to have my manservant Baldrick read it.

Dave passes best as a young woman and is also fantastic as a glittery-eyed psychopath (Manservant Hecubus, Sarcastic Guy, etc).