Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bob, Congrats on the B-Day and the Minox etc. Gene -------------- Original message from bob palmieri <rpalmier@depaul.edu>: -------------- > Y'all - > > So it seems I had a birthday this weekend and decided to get myself a > frivolous yet practical & affordable present; to this end I'm having > Don Goldberg send me a rebuilt Minox IIIs. (This simultaneously tags > me as a sucker for cool machines and also as an unreconstructed film > addict.) > > Elsewhere in the news someone in the family gave me a really nice > Case pocketknife which she sez was her grandfather's (she's my age so > this is a somewhat vintage piece.) It has three blades, two of which > are almost identical. My father-in-law sez that this is because > everyone he knew who had a pocketknife back in the day used to break > off part of one of the blades and grind the stump into a > screwdriver. Anyone know if this was indeed a common practice in the > early-middle parts of the 20th century?? > > Also, if we keep talkin' about the creativity and craft of certain > late 60's-early seventies rock bands I just may hafta bring up Mott > the Hoople... > > Bob Palmieri > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information