Re: new Budowitz album, Wedding without a Bride, now out

[Marvin <physchem...>]

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Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 5:57 PM
Subject: RE: new Budowitz album, Wedding without a Bride, now out


>
> In a message dated 5/31/0 2:38:05 PM, rogovoy (at) berkshire(dot)net writes:
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> <<
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> while you're at it, could you explain why they always drank tea in glasses
>
> in the old country? Didn't they have any cups?
>
>  >>
>
> As a kid in the "old country," I can't remember ever having tea in a cup,
> only milk and beer! Also, the thinner the glass the better...showed you
had
> "class". The "Jelly' glasses were an American invention..nice and THICK!
> By the way, the proper way to drink the tea was with a piece of sugar "for
> under the tongue"
> S

I once studied Russion for a year so that I could read scientific papers.
The teacher was a White Russian woman who had married an American.  She
explained that "everybody" had silver holders for tea glasses.  I wanted to
pass the course, so I didn't ask if the poor people also had silver holders.


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