Re: [Leica] Re: Leica Owners and Stereotypes

[chefurka@magma.ca (Paul Chefurka)]

This looks like it might make a fun mini-thread...

On Thu, 6 Aug 1998 19:24:48 EDT, you wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>Just for fun... It is interesting how stereotypes evolve, and how seldom=
 they
>reflect the truth. In a message dated 98-08-06 13:46:07 EDT, F Baker =
quotes
>someone named Ruth:
>
>>Leica owners are the type of people who:
>=20
>> -- buy incredibly expensive, glamorous, powerful SUVs but never take =
them
>any farther off road than the mall parking lot.
>
>Honda Civic.
Yup.  best small car ever made.

>=20
>> -- like to brag about drinking chianti, but inwardly groan at the =
thought of
>taking another sip of the caustic swill.
>
>Riesling, Viognier. And ohmygawd, the occassional single malt.
High-end Chilean Cabs (how's that for an oxymoron?)  Lots and lots and
lots of single-malt (according to my wife :-)

>=20
>> -- were the first ones to rush out and join smoking clubs when the =
cigar
>craze began.
>
>Smoking cigars since 1972, about one a month.
One a year.  They provide an annual retrospective milepost.

>=20
>> -- subscribe to Scientific American, but can't even decipher the table=
 of
>contents.  It makes a great coffee table item in their house.
>
>Work in a top Government weather lab.
=46ather a research biochemist, mother a university physics prof, I'm a
computer scientist.  SciAm is nice little popular science magazine.

>=20
>> -- have a son named Cody and a daughter named Brianna.  Cody has a =
swimming
>coach, and Brianna takes interpretive tap lessons.
>
>No kids other than a 120 lb St. Bernard/Pyrenees mix, 9 years old. Named
>Digger.
A budgie named Casey.  Who speaks four languages (English, French,
Budgie and conversational Sparrow).  With 50 or more English phrases,
he's smarter than some Nikon users I know...

>=20
>> -- like to drop their Tai Chi lessons into conversations:  "You know, =
this
>morning I was on my way to the Starbucks kiosk right after my Tai Chi, =
and..."
>
>Kung Fu, 1972-1974, more since.
Black belt in Kama Sutra...

>=20
>> -- enjoy the snobbery of having the smallest lens section in the =
camera
>store.
>
>Werner's in Denver has more Leica than Canon, about the same as N****.
Well, if ya can't use it, why own it?

>=20
>> -- wear pleated pants.
>
>Blue jeans.
Ayup.

>=20
>> -- ran out and got the same type of dog Alec Baldwin had in that =
movie, but
>then told everyone they had theirs first.
>
>He has a St. Bernard/Pyrenees named Digger? Cool!=20
Well, I really wanted a Blue-Crowned Conure after I saw Paulie - does
that count? (and "Paulie" - what a truly righteous name!)

>=20
>> -- join Classic Literature book clubs because they like to think the =
postman
>will be impressed when he delivers their packages.
>
>Did belong to the Science Fiction book club for a while. Use a PO Box.
Science fiction?  You're right to use a PO box.  That stuff lowers
property values just sitting in a mailbox :-)  Alright, alright, I
confess - I read military adventure fiction for fun.  Doesn't come any
geekier than that!

>=20
>> -- still think it's hip to order quiche in a restaurant.
>
>Indian food, especially Chicken Tikka Saag.
Haggis.  How hip could I ever get with tastes like that?

>=20
>> -- like the security of never having to consider printing their own =
pictures
>by themselves.  Ever.
>
>Darkroom since 1971.
High school camera club.  B&W darkroom tech for 5 years.  Owned a
photo studio for 5 years. Married a custom colour darkroom tech who
was nearly disabled by a poorly ventilated paper line.  Don't talk to
me about printing...

>
>Hum, maybe that's why my Leicas refuse to operate  :-)
Maybe that's why there are so many tales of woe on this list.  It's
not poor quality control - if you listen closely you can hear all
those R8's saying (softly, and with a distinct Teutonic accent) "Vy
zhould I click for you?  You are not vorthy of my magnificence!"

>
>Speaking of stereo types, Mac 225 and a 12AX7 custom preamp.
Cool.  My phono preamp is a Mosfet-12AX7 hybrid by NYAL, and my line
stage is a homebrew unity-gain voltage follower.  And they say Leicas
are 1950's vintage cuckoo clocks!  Nice tunes, eh?

>
>Will von Dauster

Paul Chefurka