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Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 13:55:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: Winslow Yerxa
Subject: Anthems, Bagpipes and Canadian Extraction

Me:

>>Still, it can be
>>disconcerting - sort of like seeing Sonny Boy
>>Williamson with a tremolo harp.

Pat Missin:

>I would have said that having someone in Scottish
>national dress, playing "Scotland the Brave" on the
>Scottish national instrument (as seems to be
>the tradition in Baltimore) leading the parade
>dedicated to the patron saint of Ireland, is more
>like celebrating US Independence Day by singing
>"Oh Canada".

Oh - you didn't say he was playing a Scottish tune, as
well. Jeez, that is pretty incredible. Was the kilt in
a tartan pattern as well?

Actually, Americans might simply be mystified to hear
"O Canada" as an instrumental - most have never heard
the tune. But play "America, America" at a Canada Day
parade - then you'd have some peeved folks. The U.S.
is the 900-lb. gorilla, and there's always plenty of
resentment for such a critter, especially when it
lives next door. World's biggest trading partnership,
longest undefended border in the world and all that,
but plenty of built-in inequalities as well, and all
that goes with it . . .

Winslow

Of Canadian extraction, according to Wade Schuman
(Canada Extract - is that when you spill your Molson
Canadian on the floor during a beer bash, let it get
tacky overnight, then scrape it up for later use?)

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