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Subject: Re: [Leica] satire posted by kyle
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 12:20:15 -0400
References: <200010231544.LAA26881@unix3.netaxs.com>

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?")

In reply to: Message from Kyle Cassidy <cassidy@netaxs.com> ([Leica] satire posted by kyle)