RE: [Leica] Just for the hell of it

["Lee, Ken" <ken.lee@hbc.com>]

Someone who eats raisins?

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter) [SMTP:peterk@lucent.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, November 24, 1999 10:44 AM
> To:	'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us'
> Subject:	RE: [Leica] Just for the hell of it
> 
> OK.  What's a raisin eater?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ted Grant [mailto:tedgrant@islandnet.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 8:11 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Just for the hell of it
> 
> 
> David Labovitz wrote:
> 
> >I knew it!  Another raisin eater.  They'll carry you through
> anything.>>>>
> 
> Hi Dave,
> 
> Yep been eating and carrying them in camera bags, photo vests for years.
> They're the greatest survival food you can have. Hell they're the only
> thing you can keep in a camera bag for three months without them trying to
> escape! And still taste great!
> 
> I buy in bulk, put them in a freezer bag and they have been my only food
> for a couple of days in the past. The "couple of days" weren't planned,
> but
> we were damn lucky I had "planned raisins!"
> 
> The photographers whom I've worked with at the Olympics over the years
> always said, "Well we know Ted will have two things. Leicas and raisins!"
> It's a hell of an international image, passing bags of raisins along the
> photog line waiting for the athletes to get their act ready.:)
> 
> ted
> 
> Ted Grant
> This is Our Work. The Legacy of Sir William Osler.
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