[Leica] Jim Brick: One Hell Of A Nice Guy

[Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>]

At 10:28 AM 3/1/2001 -0800, Jim Brick wrote:
>I apologize to you Michael.
>
>I picked up that portion of your post from someone else's post (note the
>double >> ) who was saying, basically the same thing. I was concurring but
>broadening the scope as the other person(s) was/were talking more about UV
>filters if I remember correctly. I was simply talking about the whole chain
>of detrimental practices that obfuscate reasons for buying Leica precision.

Damn, Jim!  No wonder Marvin Moss left the LUG -- it was more fun when Eric
Welch and you and I and Marvin could all fuss at each other with no one
juggling our elbows for being grumpy all the time.  Remember when Erwin
first joined our number and was appalled at the adversarial tone on the
LUG?  Remember when you told me off for a mis-statement on the windage in
an 8mm rifle barrel, and the UK members started slanging us as a bunch of
gun-nuts?

Then Ted and Tina came, and everything got nice.  <groan>  And Eric left
for his jewelry gig.  So, only you and I remain as the exemplars of the
"old LUG" -- Ted can get by with being grumpy, but, what the Hell, he's
old, avidly pursued by apparently luscious younger wimmen, and, besides,
he's been crapped on by a diarhettic cow and if there is ONE SINGLE THING
which would affect MY outlook on life, it would be serving as the target
for a bovine excretory exercize.

And now YOU are selling out to the 'feel-good generation'.  BD has turned
nice.  Jem Kime hasn't a mean bone in his body, I suspect.  Mark Rabiner is
a kind and gentle soul.  

Argh!  I am going to go and found me a perfect camera discussion List,
<grumpyoldfarts@takethis!.com>  It will be my final service to photography.
 I feel so depressed by the New and Gentler Jim Brick that I may just smash
all my Leica and Rollei and Hasselblad gear and go sit on a hilltop for a
couple of decades and ponder.  I just have to find the proper hilltop, one
overlooking a gloomy cemetery.

Humph!

Marc

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