Klarinet Archive - Posting 000725.txt from 2004/11

From: "DWH" <dwh46@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Happy Thanksgiving
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 19:41:02 -0500

I read and understood the question same as you, Dan. It makes an example for
how easily two people can interpret a written statement very differently. I
try very hard to
take such things as innocently as they look. Matthew prefaced the remark by
stating he had always wondered about the subject, and wanted to learn. I
know there's much we Americans take for granted about what people in other
countries know about our history and think of it. As much as I tried over
the years to learn about Great Britain and its history after visiting there
as a teenager, I learned so much more from a British friend and coworker who
had moved to the US a few years ago.

You'll never know if you don't ask.

Don Hatfield

> > > What do Americans give thanks for on
> > > Thanksgiving?

> I thought the question was more innocent than that, it wasn't a "what DO
Americans give thanks for anyway?!" which would have been cynical, but more
in line of a general inquirey, like "What do Clarinettists change reeds
for?"... actually ... that could be taken both ways too.
>
> Dan

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