Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Busted with my M2
From: Robert Appleby <robert.appleby@tin.it>
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 08:02:33 +0100

>>>
on 15/12/00 4:01 pm, Robert Appleby at robert.appleby@tin.it wrote:

> Some people convert even more quickly, I remember the Balliol guy (Balliol
> JCR at that time had a Stalinist constitution written by this very guy) who
> was a strong Scargill supporter during the strike then went to work for the
> Coal Board directly out of college. At my advanced age these things no
> longer even sadden me, but I was surprised then!

I can remember the exact same thing at Keble (Rob & I are contemporaries).
All the guys who sold Socialist Worker suddenly bought suits in their last
year and announced somewhat unconvincingly that what the proletariat needed
most in the coming revolution was accountants.
- - -- 
Johnny Deadman
>>>>
Another good one, of course, was "revolution from within"!
Rob.
Robert Appleby