RE: [Leica] Hairdresser? Hairdresser?

["Tim Atherton" <timphoto@nt.sympatico.ca>]

Marc,

Glad to see you are staying out of the M7 fray and sticking to hairdressers,
white wine and brie - a much more worthy area of dispute ;-)

Tim A

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Marc James
> Small
> Sent: September 14, 1999 6:50 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: [Leica] Hairdresser? Hairdresser?
>
>
> At 11:12 PM 9/13/1999 -0700, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> >And again keeping the sun off your head can save your life
> >my hairdresser last year balled me out for having a overly
> tanned (spotted)
> >hairline. She says her clients are dropping like flies. Claims
> to be Imogene
> >Cunningham's niece and is quite believable about it. And looks like her.
> Has a
> >great rap about the tidepools. Her name is Sarah. In NW Portland Oregon.
>
> Gads.  My horror increases.  Mark, you CAN rub salt in raw wounds!
>
> First, the "politically correct" medical message.  I grew up in
> the son, as
> did my entire family.  We generally all live into our 80's and nary a case
> of melanoma in the bunch of us out to my third or fourth cousins.  Damn
> little cancer of any sort, and most of us grew up in urban pollution.  (I
> was raised in the Pittsburgh of green air and funny-tasting water:  my
> doctors don't waste time fussing at me for smoking a pipe, as I'm already
> off the charts for lung cancer.)  So, let the UV pour on, guys!
>
> Second, a HAIRDRESSER?  a HAIRDRESSER?  Probably in a "unisex styling
> salon" of some sort, complete with some dude with a French accent selling
> the appropriate fragrances for Today's Man.  I had my hair cut yesterday.
> Regular, old-style barbarshop.  Red-white-and-blue pole out
> front.  Leather
> seats.  Lather-and-razor on the neck.  Here's the camera connexion:  the
> guy who founded the shop is a veteran of the US Army's 80th Infantry
> Division and was with the Blue Ridgers when they captured the Carl Zeiss
> lensworks at Jena in April, '45.  (It is now a reserve Division
> and was the
> unit from which I retired, incidentally, when I completed my
> reserve time.)
>
> I guess I'm just too old-fashioned for you trendy sorts in the American
> North-West!  (I will admit to making a wicked baked brie and to
> swilling an
> occasional tun of white wine, but I was doing the both of these
> long before
> they became fashionable.  I also can whump up a grand mess of
> fried chicken
> and mashed potatoes, too -- extra cholesterol added, lots of salt, and
> butter, and so forth.)
>
> Marc
>
> msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
> Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!
>
>