Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/09

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Subject: Re: [Leica] tu quoque
From: Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@pacbell.net>
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 14:10:51 -0700
References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0309091252450.24578-100000@grace.speakeasy.net>

Ken

That comedian was correct!   I heard him speaking in German before
Nixon discovered him, and he had no accent. :-)

Jerry

Ken Firestone wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, bdcolen wrote:
>
>    Me? I am embarrassing, 28 years in this country and I still speak with
>    an
>    accent. I guess when they handed out the rolling r gene, I was out
>    practicing calligraphy or something.
>
>    >:-)
>    >
>    >- Phong
>    ---
>    Good God, Phong, embarrassed? Why? Henry Kissinger has been in this
>    country for something like 60 years and he still sounds like Dr.
>    Strangelove....(Interestingly enough, his brother, a successful
>    businessman on Long Island, does not have an accent.)
>
> I once recall a comedian stating that he knew Henry Kissinger before
> he had an accent.
>
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