Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Alex, (loved the post!) To keep this Leica related - do you now find that you have a problem with snot occassionally finding its way onto the Leica, now that you given up Hanky using, it must end up everywhere / anywhere! Perhaps I could suggest that if this happens you wipe the snot of your Leica with a ....... Hanky! What a brilliant invention ;) Jem ============= Alex Brattell wrote: > I agree with your use of a capital aitch in Hanky. > I used to think that the Hanky was simply a place to blow one's nose. > Until I travelled in Africa and realised that leaving your snot in a special > cloth that you kept in your pocket and carried around with you was just a > weird quaint and disgusting western habit. > > This absurd realisation helped me to reappraise the role of the ancient > square of cloth in my pocket. > > Nowadays I still always carry a Hanky but am extremely reluctant to store > snot in it. > It has become primarily a remover of fingerprints, pollution and general > crud from spectacles, Leica rangefinder windows, filters, lenses, negatives, > scanners and other modern delicate surfaces. I am lucky to have many very > old soft and knackered Hankies that excel at these important everyday tasks. > The Hanky is a vital piece of equipment! > > When I started to use a Leica rangefinder (only January 1998) it took me a > while to learn how to handle it, pick it up, change the film, without > smearing fingerprints all over all those optical surfaces. A t-shirt will > get you through the night, but the Hanky is the donkey's bollocks. > > Unfortunately there are no brand names or collectible status-conferring > types of Hanky, so I can't see much mileage in this. (On the other hand, I > once met a man who claimed to once have owned Napoleon's penis, so why not > his Hanky?) > > Alex > (glad to be able to share that one at last!) > > ____________________________________________ > > alex@zetetic.co.uk > http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~abrattell/ > > ___________________________________________