Re: British term

On 8/4/14 12:19 PM, Sibyl Smirl wrote:
> On 8/4/14 4:18 AM, 'Ellen Rawson' via Tamson House wrote:
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>>> From: Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3@ckt.net>>

> of immigrant stock, one a Sikh, ...

Which reminds me of a time at a Holiday Inn in Manhattan, Kansas, (home
of Kansas State University) when we walked up to the front desk, and the
person behind the desk was a Sikh, complete with blinding white turban,
short, neat black beard, and preternaturally clean look, and no doubt a
very sharp knife somewhere about his person. He was not wearing a name
tag. When we finished what we needed to do, I said "Thank you, Mr.
Singh." I didn't expect his complete astonishment: "How did you know my
name?!" I just shrugged. "Well, you just looked like a Mr. Singh."
Apparently he had the bone-deep assumption that all native Kansans were
as totally ignorant of everything as I am about things Twenty-first
Century British.



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