Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Folks, get your peanuts and popcorn, pull up a chair! Looks like Alan and Eric are getting ready to have a pissin' contest! Dan ( lemme see.... Superia X-tra at 1/500 and f4, with my IIIf and the Elmar oughta catch it) - -----Original Message----- From: Alan Ball <AlanBall@csi.com> To: 'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us' <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 9:38 AM Subject: RE: [Leica] Leica R9 err...Minolta 9 ;-) OFF TOPIC >Eric, > >I must say you seem to have a real, deep and complicated problem with your >communication, my friend.... >I shall not even try to rephrase my sentence, which at no point refered to >the level of evolution of the people of a state of the USA, as you do not >seem to use your reading and understanding abilities in the same way as the >rest of the humanity I am acquainted with. > >Furthermore, your allusion to the 'sound of someone falling of the turnip >truck' might indicate a certain lack of respect for the intellect of the >people who grow, transport and/or deal those vegetables. If my profession >was linked to the turnip supply chain, I would probably feel that your >sentence is 'racist in its writing' (to paraphrase one of your former >glorious characterizations) ;-) > >I stand by my post, and repeat that spreading unfounded rumours, such as >the Minolta R9 fantasy, on the LUG, is a good way to definitively kill the >current R line of products. I therefore suspect you are an 'agent provoc >ateur' paid by some 'obscure' competing lobby. If I had to repeat all the >dumb things that have been said to me by 'obscure' people dealing Leica >goods.... > >Please refer to today's post by Erwin giving a little historical >perspective to the birth of that rumour... > >Have a nice day, > >Obscure Alan (trying to climb back up on his truck of Brussels sprouts) > >On mercredi 5 mai 1999 14:45, Eric Welch [SMTP:ewelch@ponyexpress.net] >wrote: >> Next time before you characterize the people of a State as being not far >> removed from the Stone Age, you ought to do a bit of research so you >won't >> sound like you just fell of the turnip truck. > > >