Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/08/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]MY ANSWERS........ >>>>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. Old Honda Accord >>>> -- like to brag about drinking chianti, but inwardly groan at the >thought of taking another sip of the caustic swill. Well, a good Ridge zin makes me happy! >>>> -- were the first ones to rush out and join smoking clubs when the cigar >>>craze began. Tobacco smoke is one of the many great scourges of the earth, although I did smoke a Parodi once in the late 60s. >>>> -- subscribe to Scientific American, but can't even decipher the table of >>>contents. It makes a great coffee table item in their house. Nature, Science and Cell >>>> -- have a son named Cody and a daughter named Brianna. Cody has a >swimming coach, and Brianna takes interpretive tap lessons. We swim in the city pool (prefer the "no urinating" section). >>>> -- 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..." Peet's. Bicycle racing. >>>> -- enjoy the snobbery of having the smallest lens section in the camera >>>store. Don't need too many lenses. >>>> -- wear pleated pants. Since when are Levis pleated? >>>> -- ran out and got the same type of dog Alec Baldwin had in that movie, >but then told everyone they had theirs first. Took in a stray alley cat and her kittens. >>>> -- join Classic Literature book clubs because they like to think the >postman will be impressed when he delivers their packages. Well, I do like reading Walker Percey and Mark Twain. >>>> -- still think it's hip to order quiche in a restaurant. I like to grow as much of my food as I can. >>>> -- like the security of never having to consider printing their own >pictures by themselves. Ever. My darkroom doubles as the kid's bathroom. - -Mark Walberg <;@)