"Messrs. Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs offer their compliments to Professor Snape and... "

And then chocolatier Rikudou-san came out to greet us, and he was super handsome.

It's a place where women run the show, have sex to say hello, and play rules the day -- where fun is serious business.

So the other morning I went to the grocery store and an employee greeted me with a "Good morning, sir, can I help you with anything?"

The other male is pant-grunting to him, is being submissive to him and bowing for him, and that is the sort of ritual they need to go through many times a day in order to have a stable relationship.

Now, I try to stay relatively hip to the latest trends and memes, so I knew that "yo, bitch" was also often a common greeting between friends, as well as being a popular "Breaking Bad" reference.

(Laughter) And in fact, in that case, it's not only not abusive, it's technically just an accurate greeting.

She lifted her head up, and I saw her face, said hello, and then I immediately noticed something across the bridge of her nose, a crease in her skin.

And I turned to apologize and she, without saying hello or introducing herself or anything, said, "Well, why do you think we didn't just pass through each other?"

Being truly civil means doing the small things, like smiling and saying hello in the hallway, listening fully when someone's speaking to you.

Patrick Quinlan, former CEO of Ochsner Health [System], told me about the effects of their 10-5 way, where if you're within 10 feet of someone, you make eye contact and smile, and if you're within five feet, you say hello.

If you are a man and you walk into a restaurant with a woman and the waiter greets only you, does it occur to you to ask the waiter, "Why haven't you greeted her?"

(Applause) He has become a bit of a media star because he goes to the film openings, and he knows how to work an audience now.

They might recognize them and say hello, but under their breath, they're asking their spouse, "What was their name again?"

You're not texting or checking Facebook, but everyone else is, and maybe, like me, you've been in a situation where you've made eye contact, smiled and said hello, and have that person yank out their earbuds and say, "I'm sorry, what did you say?"

Nod to him, elves, and do him courtesies.” While magic is the catalyst to the action, the play reflects the real drama of the things we do for love – and the nonsensical behavior of the people under its spell.

(Applause) Well, before we wrap it up, she would like to give a shout out to all our animal friends back at the Knoxville Zoo.

They do have a very rich repertoire of postures and gestures, many of which are similar, or even identical, to ours and formed in the same context. Greeting chimpanzees embracing.

Anyway, we arrived, and when we arrived, there were hundreds of girls dressed in red homemade dresses -- which is the color of the Maasai and the color of V-Day -- and they greeted us.