Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/08/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]F Baker wrote: > > Leica owners are the type of people who: > > -- buy incredibly expensive, glamorous, powerful SUVs but never take > them any farther off road than the mall parking lot. Own two bicycles. No car. No driving license even. What's an SUV? > -- like to brag about drinking chianti, but inwardly groan at the > thought of taking another sip of the caustic swill. Couldn't tell chianti from chardonnay. Prefer single malts and calvados. > -- were the first ones to rush out and join smoking clubs when the > cigar craze began. Join a club!? I don't think so... > -- subscribe to Scientific American, but can't even decipher the table > of contents. It makes a great coffee table item in their house. Better pictures in National Geographic ;-) > -- have a son named Cody and a daughter named Brianna. Cody has a > swimming coach, and Brianna takes interpretive tap lessons. Single income, no kids yet. > -- 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..." Jiu-jitsu, yellow belt. > -- enjoy the snobbery of having the smallest lens section in the > camera store. My camera store doesn't have a Leica section ;-) > -- wear pleated pants. Whoops. ;) > -- ran out and got the same type of dog Alec Baldwin had in that movie, > but then told everyone they had theirs first. No dogs, prefer cats. > -- join Classic Literature book clubs because they like to think the > postman will be impressed when he delivers their packages. Books are picked up at the post office in Sweden. Only the invoice gets delivered by the postman ;) > -- still think it's hip to order quiche in a restaurant. Quiche? Doesn't sound Chinese, Indian or Mexican to me... > -- like the security of never having to consider printing their > own pictures by themselves. Ever. Just renewed my membership to the local club, for access to the Leitz Focomat in their darkroom. Can't wait to get the chemical stains on my fingers again... M. - -- Martin V. Howard, Application Systems Laboratory, | Dept. of Comp. & Info. Sci., Linkoping University, | Just DOHH it! SE-581 83 Linkoping, Sweden. Tel +46 13 282 421, +----------------+ Fax +46 13 142 231; marho@ida.liu.se; www.ida.liu.se/~marho