[Leica] Re: Jim Brick and the Grand Tuna Scandal

[Jim Brick <jimbrick@photoaccess.com>]

Hear hear... Marc speaks the absolute truth! I loath the FDA.

My reference with the fish (tuna I think) was simply an analogy saying "
has this (pressure plate scratch stuff) been going on all along? and also
in other cameras? are you looking through a microscope when you shouldn't be?"

Jim

At 08:32 AM 4/12/99 -0400, you wrote:
>At 04:47 PM 4/12/99 -0700, Jim Brick, normally literate soul, wrote:
>>I remember a few years ago, the FDA
>
>For our non-US members, this is the US Federal "Food and Drug
>Administration".  <Political content follows:  Left-Wingers,
>Fellow-Travellers, Softies, and Professional Puddin'-heads, please ignore,
>as you are too set in your ways to understand!>  This is otherwise known as
>the "Federal Delay Agency" and the "Fuck it:  Do it our way Agency".  These
>are the guys, almost above all others, who really DO want to tell you how
>to Lead Your Own Life and who are offended beyond all reason that there are
>a few of us, Jim among our number, I suspect, who honestly believe we can
>make better choices on our own than can some mumblehead in Washington, D.C.
>(which is reputed to stand for either "Disaster City" or the "District of
>Confusion".>  <Political Mode Off:  please return to your normal recess
>activities.>
>
>Marc
>
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>Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!
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