Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/12/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm very fond of the South and Southern people. And southern landscapes. And southern cameras. And southern cooking. Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > From: Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2012 18:24:44 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Desensitization > > I love the South and would miss it terribly. There are plenty of us who don't > fly Confederate flags, support Obama, vote Democratic, and don't stereotype > others. Tina On Sunday, December 9, 2012, Bill Pearce <billcpearce at cox.net> > wrote: > Usually pronounced Wah uv Nawthen Agression, this is the term > that residents of the US South (Sore Loosers) use to describe the American > Civil War. These can be, but not always are the same people that have > large Confederate flag decals on their pickup trucks. It is an > inaccurate description. President Lincoln was brilliant and far seeing, and > realized that if this succession was to become fact, there would be no end, > and what is the USA would become a hodgepodge of tiny nations led by who knows > what. There are many of us, however, who wouldn't miss the south a bit. > > > -----Original Message----- From: philippe.amard > Sent: Sunday, December 09, > 2012 5:10 PM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] > Desensitization > > could it be Vietnam? > ph > > Le 9 d?c. 12 ? 23:39, > Douglas Barry a ?crit : > >> >> "Don Dory" <don.dory at gmail.com> wrote >>> >>> > nasty deaths from smallpox and ebola. Or consider the images from > the War >>> of Northern Aggression where there were stacks of limbs outside > the medical >>> tents. >> >> Don, as an Irishman living in Ireland and > unfamiliar with many terms used in the States, what was the War of Northern > Aggression? Do you mean the Korean War? I never saw those images. >> >> I > presume you don't mean the American Civil War as I thought that started with > the Confederacy attacking Fort Sumter? Well it did according to all those > school history books (European) I read 50 years ago. >> >> Maybe school books > are different in the USA.... >> >> Douglas >> _________ >> Douglas Barry >> > Bray, Co. Wicklow >> Republic of Ireland >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > -- Tina > Manley, > ASMP www.tinamanley.com _______________________________________________ Leica > Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more > information