Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Dentists and Leicas
From: "Henning J. Wulff" <henningw@archiphoto.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 11:57:20 -0700 (PDT)

> I, once again, must take exception to B.D. Colen's statements regarding
>dentists and their alleged propensity for Leicas and other high-tech
>gadgets. I neither made misstatements nor exaggerated in any what was
>said. I believe he totally missed the point of my original post to the LUG
>digest.
>
> 1. No one has any right to denigrate a person's profession, race or
>creed, or in this case, based on their ability or inability to afford and
>properly use a Leica. I'm sure if we substituted an ethnic group for
>"dentists" we would have seen a firestorm of complaints. And who even
>cares if someone buys a Leica and hasn't the faintest idea how to use it?
>That is their right.
>
> 2. I didn't realize the LUG was an exclusive country club which only
>granted membership to the elite few who the Almighty has determined have
>the divine gifts to properly use a Leica. Too much time is spent on
>testosterone-induced diatribes over whose Telyt is bigger than the next
>guy's Telyt. Grow UP!.
>
> Pete Klein
>
>
>

<snarl, snarl>

:-)


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