From: owner-humor
To: Multiple recipients of list HUMOR
Subject: Humour: Saskatchewan
Date: Saturday, April 09, 1994 9:59AM

In essence, a true story:

A Canadian was observing teaching methods in schools in several
African countries.  In one, she found the children doing a science
lesson, timing the swing of a pendulum.  The lesson had evidently
been prepared in the US as the children were counting "Mississippi
one, Mississippi two, Mississippi three . . ."  After the lesson
the Canadian gave a talk and mentioned that if children in her
country were doing this experiment, they would probably use a
Canadian word like "Saskatchewan" to do the timing.  The next day,
the Canadian happened to drop in on the class and found them still
timing the pendulum's swing, but today they were counting
"Saskatche one, Saskatche two . . ."

