Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/08

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Subject: spam: [Leica] photographers who do not want to be photographed
From: richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard)
Date: Mon May 8 17:55:34 2006
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It's probably the single paragraph writing style that trips it :-) PLUGgers 
too. That sounds... dirty :-)

At 05:51 PM 5/8/2006, you wrote:

>Good heavens, Kyle's email post to the LUG got filtered out by my SPAM
>filter. Now, does my SPAM filter see a word or two that caused it to be
>flagged and regarded as SPAM? It looks neither pornographic nor an
>advertisement for V*I*A*gr*a. I wonder what did it.
>
>Jeffery Smith
>New Orleans, LA
>http://www.400tx.com
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
>[mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Kyle
>Cassidy
>Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 3:08 PM
>To: lug@leica-users.org
>Subject: spam: [Leica] photographers who do not want to be photographed
>
>
>i was at ye local PLUG meeting last week (we meet every third wednesday at
>'jiggles' -- a strip club under the bridge over by the landfill, if you'd
>like to come, tell Bolt, the biker at the door, that you're with the camera
>club, that way he probably won't mace you, which is usually his response to
>an unfamilar face -- he assumes anyone who's not sweating and twitching is a
>Narc) and while we were doing the portfolio review (usually this is time
>spent flipping through the back pages of the free weekly and comparing the
>photos we'd had published of transvestite hookers and greased models
>advertisng same-sex chat lines and passing around brown paper envelopes
>filled with long-lens telephoto shots of local officials and people not
>their wives) i pulled out my leica and snapped a few photos of the group --
>one of the PLUGgers lifted her head up from where she had been disgorging
>the contents of her stomache (largely consisting of beer and what appered to
>be whole, undigested "cheetoes") into a bucket and barked at me: "i do not
>appreciate having my photo taken." i burst out into great peals of laughter
>that lasted some long minutes (i can only guess as to how long i actually
>laughed but i do recall that as i began i could hear the first strains of
>'Dazed and Confused' from the 'Song Remains The Same' live album begining
>their weepy tintintabulation on the juke box and by the time i was able to
>dry my eyes and continue we were half way through 'Brown Eyed Girl').
>"neither does Sean Penn, you twit" i said, "i was actually only pretending
>to take _your_ photo because i didn't want to make you self conscious about
>your truely ghastly apperance, fret not, your grim and horriffic visage will
>not be appearing on the pages of People Magazine, causing children to run
>screaming in terror and old people to wet themselves. move to france, you
>troglodite." i was expecting applause from the other PLUGgers, but the only
>response was a single, extended and racous belch and a call to the bartender
>for more beer, but that's the way things usually go around here.

// richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please 
use richard at imagecraft.com) 


Replies: Reply from jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith) (spam: [Leica] photographers who do not want to be photographed)
In reply to: Message from kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy) ([Leica] photographers who do not want to be photographed)
Message from jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith) (spam: [Leica] photographers who do not want to be photographed)