Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] uncle walter
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 11:22:42 -0700
 
Summicron1@aol.com wrote:
> 
> he shoulda known walter outranks all but the pope.
><snip>  Finally, Johnson asked Cronkite where he got his watch
><snip>
> >Dan C.

I'm trying to picture the pope with a watch and I can't.  I would think
the site of the Pope wearing a watch would be ironic on a high level. I
think there would be an implication that the Pope would be beyond time.
A watch is a pretty Copernicun device. But Copernicus was Polish!
Mark Rabiner