Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And I am very glad you contribute to this list! trish ternahan@gentlelens.net > From: "Sonny Carter" <sonc@gmx.net> > Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 23:30:38 -0500 > To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Subject: Re: [Leica] lower classes don't use leicas? > > Olivier, > > You must be very proud of your parents. > > Regards, > Sonny > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nguyen, T [AMSTA-AR-CCF]" <onguyen@pica.army.mil> > To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 10:09 PM > Subject: RE: [Leica] lower classes don't use leicas? > > >> >> sONC, >> I completely agree with you. not all janitors are thieves > or poor people >> are thieves also not having leica. I have 2 leicas now. > one is M6TTL and >> another is an R8. I am not a doctor, not a lawyer, or any > business man at >> all or professional photographer (i wish one day i would > be) but i still own >> leica stuff. >> >> It is just depend on how personality of each person to be > a thieves instead >> of all poor people or not intelligence. >> >> My parents use to work really hard as an assembler and > janitor to support me >> 4 years in college (for my room and board + extra money > for books and food) >> and they never still anything from anyone. nor they are > not intelligence. >> both of my parents are very educated people. they could > not get a job in US >> because when they came to US, they already old. instead > of go school again >> and fight so hard for more book to retake the degree, they > sacrify >> themselves for me and my sisters in order we young kids > has a better future. >> Not all poor people are thieves or not intelligence or not > own a leica. or >> LEICA ARE OWN BY HIGH CLASS OR WHAT EVER. IT IS JUST A > BEAUTIFUL TOOL FOR >> SOME ONE WHO LIKE IT. >> Olivier >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Sonny Carter [mailto:sonc@gmx.net] >> Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 12:34 PM >> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >> Subject: Re: [Leica] lower classes don't use leicas? >> >> >> Thanks, B.D. >> I earned the money for my first 35mm camera by > cleaning >> the floors in stairwells of apartment buildings in > Germany. >> It never crossed my "poor dim-witted" mind to steal to > get >> the camera. >> I was not a wealthy ex-pat; my father was a non-com in >> the Air Force during the Cold War in the early 60's. >> >> Regards, >> SonC >> http://www.sonc.com >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> >> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >> Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 9:48 AM >> Subject: Re: [Leica] lower classes don't use leicas? >> >> >>> >>> >>> Mxsmanic wrote: >>> >>> The type of people who work cleaning toilets and/or >>>> steal the property of others tend to be poor and >> dim-witted, >>> >>> Yes, people who work cleaning toilets and who out of >> desperation steal >>> the property of others tend to be poor, but to suggest >> that they are >>> dim-witted because they are poor or clean toilets is a >> truly repulsive, >>> vile, classist thing to say that tells us a great deal >> about you. >>> >>> There are plenty of people on this list who at one time > or >> another >>> worked at jobs that were the equivalent of cleaning >> toilets, or had >>> parents or grandparents who did. >>> >>> Just who the hell do you think you are, Anthony, to make >> this kind of >>> statement. Boy, was Kyle on the mark when he pointed out >> that there are >>> people who think that they are somehow "special" because >> they own >>> Leicas. >>> >>> B. D. >>> >> >