Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/12

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Subject: [Leica] Fakes
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Tue Aug 12 17:10:07 2008
References: <380-22008821223223028@M2W007.mail2web.com> <C53300AA773740BC9E87986463D73B2C@dadquad>

On Aug 12, 2008, at 5:05 PM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote:

> I'm surprised to read that people feel so strongly about this. The  
> opening
> ceremony is simply entertainment or theatre, like a super Hollywood
> blockbuster movie. Seems like they put on a pretty spectacular show  
> to me.
> Now Michael Phelps you could consider to be a REAL annoyance ;-) ;-)


especially if you are an Aussie swimmer...


:-)


Steve
>
>
> Cheers
> Geoff
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/e
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Fakes
>
> Tina Manley <images@comporium.net> wrote:
>
>> It wasn't only the fireworks that were faked:
>>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7556058.stm
>>
>> Nothing is real anymore!
>
> I feel completely at a loss for words to describe how I feel about  
> how we
> are manipulated with fakery, how the producers of such propaganda take
> pride in their work, and how one of the participants in the fakery,  
> the
> actual singer, was convinced (or told) to be happy to have been  
> tossed a
> crumb.
>
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>
>
>
>
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Replies: Reply from hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (Geoff Hopkinson) (Was RE: [Leica] Fakes Now OT Olympics statistics)
Reply from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] Fakes)
In reply to: Message from wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (wildlightphoto@earthlink.net) ([Leica] Fakes)
Message from hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (Geoff Hopkinson) ([Leica] Fakes)