Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Henning Wulff said: >Subject: RE: [Leica] Conflicted > >After a lesson on too much intake of aquavit the word really is .... >"confused!" ;-) Not conflicted! ;-) > >Long long ago many Leica light years passed! In a country far far >away on the northern parts of the planet across the seas and oceans >there's a land known as Sweden! Inhabited by smashingly beautiful >blonde females, so gorgeous they steal the hearts and minds of the >most sterling and faithful of men. :-) > >There was a tournament attended by hockey players of the world and >media people. Unfortunately, in this land is a liquid called >"Aquavit!" A pure clear innocent looking and assumed by the >visitors as non-lethal liquid. Well OK it looked like it wasn't >lethal! ;-) > >Looked like water, clean clear cool water and consumed as though >water on a hot thirsty day! Should I go on? :-( > >OK if you insist! :-) > >However, I must warn you the telling of these long lost moments >hurts merely at the thought at re-telling! :-( Oh suffer all you >who've, shall we say, at sometime in your motley >lives................ "Over indulged!" :-( Innocently of course and >by accident! ;-) > >Conversation during dinner with several Swedish girls, just think >about it for a moment gentlemen, tall, beautiful blue eyes, long >flowing the most beautiful blonde hair you can imagine and facial >features without make-up many a Hollywood starlet would kill for. >Dang they were just absolutely drop dead beautiful. But heck guys >they were like that all over the place. :-) > >It was like you'd died and gone to the beautiful land of amazingly >beautiful women. :-) OK I'll save the rest of the story for later. >;-) NO? OK you want it all right now. :-) > >"How do you drink this stuff?' one of the guys asked. "Oh very easy, >just fill your small glass and between bites of food, drink it like >water!" said one with a smile. Well that didn't seem too hard, just >drink it like water eh? Stupid Canadian eh? ;-) The first one was >kind of "fiery tasting" but what the heck the girls were knocking >them back like, "WATER!" > >Now the lads, read all us photographers are trying to keep up with >them........... the ladies! :-) OOPS! Bad move. :-( > >Then some brilliant minded Canadian, not me, asked, "have you ever >had a Calgary Red Eye?" For the ill informed it's part beer and part >tomato juice. I assume it's called many things around the globe. The >girls answered, "No, what is it?" They were told and thought it >worth a try on the bases of, ready? For every "red eye they >sipped.... we had to partake of Aquavit!" Yeah well that wasn't one >of the most brilliant things to agree to eh? Dumb ass Canadian's! ;-) > >Well it deteriorated from there with the girls continuing to smile >and look beautiful and knock off the "Red Eye's " like they were >Mother's Milk! > >With the dumb ass Canadian's becoming more and more Aquavit pissed >and cameras lying all over the floor. The cameras on the floor was >considered prudent so we wouldn't knock them off the table. I'm sure >we'd have been far better off putting ourselves on the floor and >leaving the camera's on the table! :-) Try and imagine that scene, >naw it's not possible unless you've been through it. :-) > >I know, I woke up in the morning some where in Stockholm with >absolutely no idea where. Never before nor since have I ever done >such a purely stupid thing! Ahhhhhh but beautiful blue eyed blondes >will do that to you everytime! :-) Oh the Aquavit? Don't ever >mention it in my living presence ever, ever! Thank you so much. :-) > >And my Leicas? Yep I still had them all but couldn't remember where >the hell the film was! :-( > >ted Hmmmm... I was hitchhiking in Skandinavia in 60's. Some of the parts I remember were an awful lot like that... And they didn't even necessarily involve herring. -- * Henning J. Wulff /|\ Wulff Photography & Design /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com