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Subject: [Leica] supersized butts too
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Mon Jun 12 11:02:47 2006
References: <4F488248ADCD6C419976DFE43A115091EBAC7B@sv-ex01.jp2hs.campus>

I LOVE jabba the couch potatoe!
Thanks for showing,
Philippe


Op 12-jun-06, om 06:10 heeft Arche, Harvey het volgende geschreven:

> I'm in Tennessee: I shoot what I see.
> Xtol woes sorted out, here's some stuff that had been waiting to be  
> souped.
>
>> From the mall:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album395/jabba
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album395/babycakes
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album395/handoff
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album395/shopping_pattern
>
> For a promotion at the stock car track, they brought in the 'Green  
> Mamba', a Rolls-Royce engined jet-car. Midway through the evening's  
> races, it came out and did a couple laps. This means that at the  
> beginning of each straightaway the driver hammers the throttle for  
> 2 seconds and then coasts half way around the track, because  
> there's no way they're going to let this sucker get up to speed.
> Thats not what its for.
> They have two junkers stacked in the middle of the infield, and  
> after the scheduled races, the Mamba is going to melt them down!
> So, come time, they roll the Mamba over and chain it to stakes  
> already set, chock the wheels, and let the driver climb in. He  
> weighs about 290 and sits in a little cage, presumably to keep him  
> from getting sucked into the engine. Now we have high-speed  
> portable blow torch about 3 feet in diameter, ready to go at it. It  
> takes about 6-8 minutes to reduce the stacked junkers to glowing  
> slag, and then the fire trucks, who have been waiting patiently,  
> roar over from where they were parked about 100 yards away, with  
> full lights and sirens, and hose off the rubble. Big steam clouds,  
> and everybody goes home happy. Is this a great country or what?
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album404/mamba
>
> GOYA & shoot,
> Arche
>
>
>
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