Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Jun 6, 2005, at 9:21 AM, Slobodan Dimitrov wrote: > You never lived in Germany, have you. In the mini series Shaka Zulu, > there is a scene where a story is recounted on how to catch monkeys > with a gourd. You place something shiny in it for the monkey to grab. > The monkey doesn't know that letting go of the object would free it's > hand thus saving it from capture. It sure seems like a prescient > parable about Leica. > Slobodan Dimitrov Actually I grew up in Germany. I lived there for almost half my life, so I am intimately familiar with the idiosyncrasies of the culture. Raising prices is a stupid idea, but it's not an entirely unexpected move. ;-) feli > ________________________________________________________ feli2@earthlink.net 2 + 2 = 4 www.elanphotos.com no archive