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Subject: [Leica] OT (kind of) Table manners
From: glehrer at san.rr.com (Jerry Lehrer)
Date: Wed Sep 12 19:37:45 2007
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Daniel'

In Japan, crossed hashi (chopsticks) on a plate is considered rude and 
insulting.

Jerry


Daniel Ridings wrote:
> 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
>
> That was my problem, Jim. A crossed knife and fork wouldn't do the 
> trick. They have to be placed parallel to each other.
>
> Take some more, Daniel, would you like some more peas, here's some 
> more meat ... boy, until I learned that ... :-)
>
> Daniel
>
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