Re: [Leica] Marc v. Walter

[Walter S Delesandri <walt@jove.acs.unt.edu>]

Damn, Will, you mean he's a lawyer, too?  If I'd have known that
I'd have been rude to him......what the hell....to paraphrase a 
bigot standby phrase, some of my best friends are lawyers....shhhhhh
don't tell anybody, but we got one in the family.....we don't 
want the public to know.......A lawyer, huh?  Damn, now I feel bad...
When he didn't understand my post, I thought he was lying....I didn't
know he was "handicapped".
Now I know why he insists on paperwork.....people ARE out to get him...

Happy Birthday Will/Happy New Year group, 
Walt

On
Thu, 31
Dec 1998 Vondauster@aol.com wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> In a message dated 12/31/1998 6:23:31 PM EST, walt writes:
> 
> << I'd get along with Marc just like my friend Stu.....we been 
>  arguing for nearly 10 years.....I know I won't leave in 
>  a huff, all my best friends are assholes.....Hi, Will....
>  
>  Happy holidays to you AND Marc....... >>
> 
> 
> Heh heh. And don't y'all forget it.
> 
> Actually, Ernie posted my message before I could. I've been on this list for a
> good long time now, and believe I've gotten to know Marc a little in the
> process. I've known Walter for amost 15 years. I like both of you. I agree
> that you fellows have a lot more in common than not! What I think we're seeing
> is the result of the fact that Marc is an attourney, a class of people
> immediately suspect anywhere in Texas, who lives in the Northeast, and area
> also immediately suspect. Walter is of course a Texan. In other words, we have
> a cultural clash going on here.
> 
> As for the serial number question, a local dealer here in Denver has had this
> happen to him: A person obtains the serial number of a camera new to the store
> - he may have another person come in and get it, see it on line, whatever. He
> then files a report with an out of town police department citing that piece
> and serial number, claiming the item was stolen "several weeks ago," or he
> "just discovered it was missing from his car trunk," and he just now is
> getting around to filing the report. Next, he "discovers" the camera in the
> store and claims it as his stolen property. The dealer, who of course has the
> paper work from the person he obtained the camera from, none the less has to
> surrender the "stolen" camera to the fraudulent "owner." If the police bother
> to sort this out later, the crook is long gone and so is the merchandise.
> 
> Of course this is not how things should be done, but it happens. In other
> words, sometimes the honest dealers are victims, too.
> 
> Now fellows, today is my birthday (getting me closer to being one of those
> irrelevant old photographers), so make nice when flaming each other! 
> 
> Happy New Year to the LUG!
> 
> Will von Dauster
>