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Re: CHAT: Being taken for a furriner ...

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Thursday, September 2, 2004, 18:16
Roger Mills wrote:

> I had a good friend in Army days-- a very bright and wacky Jewish guy from > Brooklyn. Part of his job was to interview new arrivals on base. Upon > hearing another Brooklynite, especially another Jew, he could often pinpoint > _to the street_ what part of the city they came from. He'd come up with > things like "Hey, you must be from 65th street; I'm from 62nd..." It was > amazing. Perhaps your friend's friend had a similar ability/gift, and was > simply picking up on the fact that you lived in a slightly different area.
There is a professor at the Swedish department here in Gothenburg who can pinpoint which primary school a person went to. Scary. -- /BP 8^) -- B.Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant! (Tacitus)

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