Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/11/22

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Subject: [Leica] Happy Thanksgiving!
From: henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)
Date: Thu Nov 22 10:31:36 2007
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At 6:56 PM +0100 11/22/07, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>Hi Dick,
>
>Thanksgiving has not penetrated the Continent, most Dutch people are 
>completely unaware of it. The Butterball turkey was obtained in a 
>special shop catering to the expat community.
>
>The one American holiday that has become reasonably popular is 
>Halloween, when a fair amount of trick and treating goes on in some 
>places, including the Netherlands. However, some of the other 
>associated traditions, such as egging cars, have fortunately not 
>taken hold.
>
>Cheers,
>Nathan

    ....and some of the older traditions, practiced on the prairies in 
the '50's, such as moving the outhouses back 3 feet have also 
fortunately died out. :-)

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