There are five deadly sins as regards dinner conversation:

1) GOSSIP.......straight to Hell.
2) RELIGION...straight to purgatory
3) POLITICS....straight to the third pit (where the cops are German, the cooks English, and the mechanics French)
4) DEATH........straight to Limbo, where you will languish forever waiting for another dinner invitation
5) ILLNESS.....straight to the fifth pit, which is a NHS waiting room...