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From: sahayman@watcgl.UUCP (Steve Hayman)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: O Canada vs. New York
Message-ID: <2537@watcgl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 01:40:42 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 23 01:40:42 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 23-Sep-85 03:01:26 EDT
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Reply-To: sahayman@watcgl.UUCP (Steve Hayman)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

Isaac Dimitrovsky writes (from New York) about the running O Canada controversy:

>
>Oh well, I don't think anybody in Canada knows the words either.
>

Um, do you have any statistics to back up this strange statement?  I know
it's sort of a running gag up here that nobody knows the words (especially
since a slight modification of the first verse a few years ago) but
never have I met any Canadian who doesn't know either the new version
or the old version.  They do teach this in school!

Incidentally, this Canadian has found it very refreshing to read in
this group that many Americans were embarassed by Mary O'Dowd's anthem
performance too.  And that they like the tune!  (wait until you see the video!)
Obviously relations between our two countries are still good.

But we'll see come Series time.  A reporter from a paper in Ft. Lauderdale
phoned the Blue Jays office last week, wanting to know how many
hours of darkness Toronto experiences in October.  He was wondering if
perhaps there was 24-hour darkness...

Steve Hayman
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