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Subject: [Leica] Canadian Disguise
From: rangefinder at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig)
Date: Fri Dec 10 14:22:29 2004
References: <002601c4def7$55e16620$669bfea9@Sander> <41BA0BC7.8060104@Hemenway.com> <009201c4df04$c507ea30$58c49253@Korhonen>
Remembers me a man who asked me (1980 in Las Vegas) "You're from
Switzerland? I have an aunt in Stockholm!" and then he was doubting if we
have telephones and highways in our country...
>Sad but true.
>All the Americans I have met personally have been been very friendly and
>reasonable - except one elderly gent in Florida who did not want to
>believe that Finland was not a part of the Soviet Union - treated me and
>my wife as we had just managed to defect. Yes, there was a Soviet Union
>back then.
Replies:
Reply from buzz.hausner at verizon.net (Buzz Hausner) ([Leica] But Then, Nobody From Anywhere Else Could Believe in Stereotypes...)
Reply from raimo.m.korhonen at uusikaupunki.fi (Raimo K) ([Leica] Canadian Disguise)
In reply to:
Message from alex at vanhulsenbeek.com (Sander van Hulsenbeek) ([Leica] Canadian Disguise)
Message from Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway) ([Leica] Canadian Disguise)
Message from raimo.m.korhonen at uusikaupunki.fi (Raimo K) ([Leica] Canadian Disguise)