Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for your advice Chris. I happen to be a professor of Film Studies and don't need any lessons on it from you. But I do have a lesson for you. In Blazing Saddles, the racists are the butt of the humour -- their racist remarks, or the way the Cleavon Little character manipulates them by turning racism against them, indicate what idiots they are. If it is your intention to indicate that the objectionable cracks on this thread indicate the same about the person who voiced them, then I think you understand the point of Mel Brooks' humour. However, since this doesn't appear to be the case, let me respectfully suggest that you are way off base. Mark On 6/23/05, mcyclwritr@comcast.net <mcyclwritr@comcast.net> wrote: > Mark, > > You are hereby instructed to get thee to the nearest video store and > buy/rent a copy of "Blazing Saddles" and watch it over and over and over > until a sense of humor begins to germinate within your "not entirely > comfortable" self. > > Furthermore. > > "Not entirely comfortable?" For crying out loud, how many PC > police-administered beatings does it take to bring a man, a grown man, to > the point where he can write "not entirely comfortable?" > > You might grab a copy of "Brazil" while you're at the store. It's good for > the imagination as well as the spine. > > -Chris Lawson > > > > I have to say that I'm not entirely comfortable with some of the > > responses to this thread, such as this one and the one on racial > > profiling. Comments on celebrity and manners are one thing, but these > > are another. > > > > Mark > > > > On 6/23/05, Jeffery Smith <jls@runbox.com> wrote: > > > Will it accept colored film? > > > > > > Jeffery Smith > > > New Orleans, LA > > > http://www.400tx.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org > > > [mailto:lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Allen > > > Graves > > > Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 5:26 PM > > > To: Leica Users Group > > > Subject: Re: [Leica] Hermes Apologizes to Oprah > > > > > > > > > We are now awaiting the delivery of Sonny's "Oprah Winfrey Exclusion > > > Commemorative" Leica > > > > > > Allen > > > > > > > > > > > > >Great PR from Hermes! Will Oprah buy a Leica... or a scarf...or a > > > >necktie from Hermes? Have a look...bob cole > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >http://tinyurl.com/76ypd > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > > >Leica Users Group. > > > >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Leica Users Group. > > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Leica Users Group. > > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >