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Yes. Table manners and eating mannerisms in general are discussed with some depth in the Talmud and other Jewish sources. I found an article online which discusses it:ETIQUETTE - JewishEncyclopedia.comMeals.There are numerous regulations for etiquette at meals. Moses fixed the hours for dinner and breakfast: "This shall be when the Lord shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full" (Ex. xvi. 8; Yoma 75b). One who eats in the street is like a dog, and some say is incapacitated as a witness (Ḳid. 40b). One shall not bite off a piece of bread and offer the rest to his neighbor, nor offer his neighbor a drink from the cup from which he has drunk first. Not even shall a teacher let his pupil drink water out of the vessel which has just been touched by his own lips, until he has spilled some of the water from the top (Tamid 27b).Anything that causes expectoration or an odor should not be eaten in company (Ket. 40a). Once Rabbi ha-Nasi, lecturing before his disciples, smelled garlic and requested the offender to leave. R. Ḥiyya, however, rather than put the transgressor to shame, caused the session to be suspended (Sanh. 11a). Etiquette prohibits eating the last morsel on the table or platter, but the pot may be emptied (ib. 92a; 'Er. 53b). Ben Sira teaches to "Eat as becometh a man. . . . And eat not greedily. . . . Be first to leave off for manners' sake; . . . and if thou sittest among many, reach not out thy hand before them" (Ecclus. [Sirach] xxxi. 16-18).Of course, there is more.Chaim Peck mentioned the very important idea of Bal Tashchis, the principle of not being wasteful, which has to be reconciled with the idea of not eating every morsel on the plate as mentioned above. Presumably, this is answered simply as it is not wasteful and to be encouraged to leave over a small amount food. (I've seen this as a tip in some weight loss articles as well. Hmmm...)One miscellaneous item I couldn't find a source for is the idea of not drinking from a bottle. One should drink from a cup. Many have taken this to mean even modern single serving bottles and cans should be poured into a cup before drinking.An example of table manners that is very old fashioned: Many of the customs of the Passover Seder are taken from Persian table manners. For example, in Persia, they used to eat while sitting on sofas, and they used to lean while they ate. This was the custom of free men. So, during the Seder, we lean. It is brought down that it is very important to lean to the left to avoid choking since the trachea is on the right.And of course there is even more, but I'm going to leave it here.

Benjamin Murphy makes some excellent points, but what was Russell doing?Western Philosophy : Bertrand Russell : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive has 916 pages, including the index, spread over XXXI (sixty one) chapters. The preface starts with a few words of apology - quite literally. He goes on to mention his purpose: he tries to ‘exhibit each philosopher as an outcome of his milieu’. He goes on to add that there are ‘certain chapters of purely social history’.It goes without saying that to other philosophers, such a work can have zero influence. They will likely have read more than one book on even those chapters that don’t particularly interest them.It was part of his winning a Nobel Prize for literature, and although it is available online, it is also still in print. So equally clearly, it is likely to be one of the most-read histories of western philosophy, at least of people alive today in the Western world.Take another British winner of the literature prize, and a work not yet published when that was received: A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. Another broad brush of ‘history’, with not that much influence to real historians.Are history books written for the general public influential? Not really. Most people reading them are interested in a short - if one can call almost a thousand pages short - summary of trends and anecdotes.

Here are some statements and facts concerning the origin and etymology of the word motherfucker .According to the OED , “ mother-fucker coarse slang (originally and chiefly U.S.), a base, despicable person; someone or something that is very unpleasant; hence mother-fucking participial adjective, despicable, base; unpleasant “.A quotation from the OED dating from 1956 : “1956 Amer. Speech XXXI. 111 This linguistic vacuum is being filled by a new obscenity symbol, *mother-fucker. “From the Wiktionary definition of motherfucker :From mother +‎ fucker, attested since 1956, but implied in mother in 1928. The injury comes from the implication of somebody sleeping with his own mother, but was probably not used literally until later.From the Online Etymology Dictionary :also mother-fucker, mother fucker, usually simply an intensive of fucker (see fuck), attested from 1956; implied in clipped form mother (with the context made clear) by 1928; motherfucking is from 1933. Abbreviation m.f. (for motherfucking) is in a rendition of soldier talk in Pound's Pisan Cantos (1948).From the Wikipedia article Motherfucker :The word dates back at least to the late 19th century, with a Texas court in 1889 recording a defendant being called a "God damned mother-f—cking, bastardly son-of-a-bitch" and in 1917 a black U.S. soldier called his draft board "You low-down Mother Fuckers..." in a letter.In literature, Norman Mailer, in his 1948 novel "The Naked and the Dead" uses it occasionally, disguised as motherfugger, and used it in full in his 1967 novel "Why Are We in Vietnam?".In Kurt Vonnegut's classic novel Slaughterhouse-Five the word is used by one of the soldiers in the story – leading to the novel being often challenged in libraries and schools. Vonnegut joked in a speech, published in the collection Fates Worse Than Death, that "Ever since that word was published, way back in 1969, children have been attempting to have intercourse with their mothers. When it will stop no one knows."In popular music, the first mainstream release to include the word was the 1969 album Kick out the Jams by MC5. The title track, a live recording, is introduced by vocalist Rob Tyner shouting "And right now... right now... right now it's time to... kick out the jams, motherfuckers!". This was quickly pulled from stores, and an edited version was released with the words "brothers and sisters" overdubbed on the offending word. At about the same time, the Jefferson Airplane released the album Volunteers, the opening track of which, We Can Be Together, included the line "up against the wall, motherfucker", a popular catch phrase among radical groups at the time. This attracted less attention. The word was strongly implied, but not said explicitly, in Isaac Hayes' huge 1971 hit song "Theme from Shaft". Though rarely broadcast, the word has since become common in popular music, particularly in hip hop.Some additional relevant links :mother fuckerWhen Did It Become Badass to Be a “Motherf**ker”?What is the origin and history of the word "motherf---er"?