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Subject: [Leica] OT (kind of) Table manners
From: phamard at numericable.fr (Philippe Amard)
Date: Wed Sep 12 03:55:15 2007
References: <46E76FF3.7070508@dlridings.se> <46E7C4CC.10909@hemenway.com>

Jim and Daniel,

I've also seen people crossing their fingers after a meal at Mac 
Donald's ...

OK I'm off :-[
Phil...x

Jim Hemenway wrote:

> Daniel:
>
> I was taught as a child here in Boston, that one simply crosses the 
> knife and fork on the plate to send the same signal.
>
> Jim
>
> Daniel Ridings wrote:
>
>> I noticed in my PAW this week that there is something that took a 
>> while to learn when I came to Sweden.
>>
>> Here's the link again and look at the position of the knife and fork 
>> on Gunn's (that's her name) plate:
>>
>> http://www.dlridings.se/paw/2007/36.html
>>
>> If you finish eating and put your silverware any other way than she 
>> had done, you will get the host and hostess offering you more and 
>> more food, second helpings, on and on ...
>>
>> By placing your silverware the way she has, it means: I'm finished. 
>> You will be offered desert or coffee, but you won't be terrorized 
>> with second and third helpings :-)
>>
>> Took a while to pick up that trick ...
>>
>> Daniel
>
>
>
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