Chicago convention naming (was timing)

[Paul]

Couldn't "The National" be defined as the annual global get together of
piano service enthusiasts held in the nation of the USA!? Ah..........maybe
that's too simple.

Paul Chick
----- Original Message -----
From: Susan Kline <sckline@home.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 11:26 PM
Subject: Re: Chicago convention naming (was timing)


>
> >Avery says:
> >>Better be careful calling it the "National".  <snip>
>
> Hmmmm, better be careful calling it the "National", hmmmmmm.
>
> Well, I don't know why a good majority of the rest of the Guild
> calls it the "National", but I, at least, call it the National
> to differentiate it from the various Regionals. It's no use
> calling the National the Annual, since all the Regionals are
> Annuals as well. As for the implied but missing "Convention",
> what other National occurrence are members of the PTG likely
> to be talking about, when asking each other if they are going
> to attend something next year?
>
> Also, of course, we could agree to call it the National because
> of the large numbers of people from various Nations attending it ...
>
> Susan
>
> P.S. Bill, have you ever visited the stock message boards found
> in Yahoo Finance? You'd feel right at home. Just type in the
> trading symbol of any fairly large company, and then click
> on "Messages" ...
>