Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]ALRIGHT! You da man! B.D.- there is hope for you yet!!! :o) :o) (oops, my rangefinder is off!) Dan - ----- Original Message ----- From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 1:36 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica sighting? > Nathan Wajsman wrote: > > > > "B. D. Colen" wrote: > > > > > And how many of you saw the late Big Pussy reflected for a fleeting > > > instant in the cabinet door? > > > > Admittedly, since I have lived overseas since 1995, I may be out of touch > > with current US popular culture...but Big Pussy in prime time?! > > > > I have a feeling that I may have misunderstood something here.... > > > > -- > > Nathan Wajsman > > Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland > You are definitely out of touch with U.S. popular culture - which may > not be so bad! > > Pussy was a character in The Sopranos, a series on HBO that is probably > the best written, acted, directed, series on American television these > days. It is about a mafia "family" lead by a guy named Tony Soprano, and > the series plays off the contrasts between Tony the family man, who eats > Sugar Pops in his underwear, goes to his kids school functions, and > deals with the usual suburban "stuff," and Tony the Family Man, who > thinks nothing of engaging in the violence and mayhem that that line of > work entails. > > Pussy was a close friend and associate of Tonys, a member of the crew, > who flipped and became an FBI informant. He was "wacked" and dumped in > the ocean at the end of last season. > > B. D. Colen > A Slave to Pop Culture and a devoted Sopranos watcher >