Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I should have known that you would have had a FAR more interesting spin on the whole thing.....The whiskey and gunpowder idea is brilliant!;-) Kyle Cassidy wrote: > >> I would like to buy 2 M6 TTLs for my outfit, a black and a silver, a > >> 0.72 and a 0.85, What combination will you choose? Why? > > > 1. Black 0.72 & Silver 0.85 > > > 2. Silver 0.72 & Black 0.85 > > alas b.d. not only is it not satire posted by me, but it's not the first > time someone's posted this question. > > though, here's what i'd do: > > buy the black .72 and spend the other $2,500 on gunpowder and whiskey. > load everything up into the Chevy Blazer and drive to some town on the > outskirts of gettysburg PA and hang out a sign that says "free gunpowder > and whiskey" then spend the next two weeks taking portraits of people who > come by. > > you'd have to set up some rules, naturally, something like this: > > 1. all whiskey must be drunk on premises. > 2. gunpowder/whiskey will be distributed ONLY on a 6:1 ratio > > that'll assure you that your participants will hang out and party before > taking their gunpowder away and anybody who wants LOT of gunpowder will be > good and drunk when they leave (and therefore very likely to do something > dangerous that will generate interest in your photos, i.e. "hello > associated press, you know that old guy in bird-in-hand pa who blew up the > grain elevator yesterday? i have the last photograph of him. he's holding > a sack of gunpowder in one hand and a bottle of old crow in the other. are > you interested?")