Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]No, kindergarten... Feli wrote: > Am I back in high school? > > > feli > > > > On Jun 3, 2005, at 10:38 PM, Marc James Small wrote: > >> At 10:20 PM 6/3/05 -0700, Doug Herr wrote: >> >>> on 6/3/05 9:30 PM, Marc James Small at msmall@aya.yale.edu wrote: >>> >>>> What you are revealing is that you are an incapable driver, and you >>>> have >>>> the brass to brag about it. >>> >>> >>> Marc, it's time for your meds. >> >> >> Doug >> >> I understand that one of the world-class courses in defensive driving is >> taught at Black Point or thereabouts, near to your environs. Instead of >> getting nasty, why not learn how to drive intelligently? The alternative >> would be to promise never to curse the highways of the US again with the >> sort of inconsiderate foolishness conducted constantly by >> automatic-transmission drivers. >> >> Learn how to drive. If you cannot do this, then, please, quite seeking >> palliatives for an inability to link your brain to your right and left >> feet. Once you learn how to do it, it is, well, to make a bit of a joke, >> "automatic". >> >> I guess I have driven around 1.2 million miles over the past forty >> years. >> All but a pittance of this has been in manual transmision cars, as I have >> never and will never own a slipshift. I don't know how to drive an >> automatic and am baffled, constantly, on those reare occasions when I am >> forced to operate one of those things. >> >> My father, born in 1915, loved automatic transmissions. But, then, he >> thought they were "modern". I agree with him on his appreciation of >> Glenn >> Miller. But, then, Dad also knew how to drive a straight: on one >> occasion >> almost thirty years ago, I found myself, with some misgivings, >> compelled to >> lend Dad my Triumph TR-7 to attend his 45th High School Reunion, and it >> came back without a flaw in it. The Old Man came through! But that was, >> to my knowledge, the last time he ever drove a straight, though he >> lived a >> couple of decades longer. >> >> Face it, guy: automatics are for old fogies,. while stick shifts are >> cool. >> >> Marc >> >> msmall@aya.yale.edu >> Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! >> >> NEW FAX NUMBER: +540-343-8505 >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > ________________________________________________________ > feli2@earthlink.net 2 + 2 = 4 > www.elanphotos.com > > > no archive > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com