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From: ignatz@ihuxx.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Do people walk to the left in England?
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Date: Sun, 4-Dec-83 12:20:43 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec  4 12:20:43 1983
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Re the "why do people in America hold their forks in their left hand",
I, too, have been told that it was a recognition sign by the "Sons of
Liberty" in pre-revolutionary America.  However, I was told that it
came into popular use as one of many deliberate acts of rebellion by
the populace at large.  While unrest and dissatisfaction with the
state of things were rising to the boiling point in Colonial America,
many of the British traditions and customs were dropped or changed to
protest and show disrespect of our "English masters"; this was one
that survived.  At least, so I've been taught at my mother's knee...

						Possibly full of misinformation,
						Dave Ihnat
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