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

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Subject: Re: [Leica] uncle walter
From: "Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 15:31:45 -0400

MArk-
Not entirely an alien thought as clocks were originally used in the middle
ages to let people know when to say their prayers- matins and vespers timed
to the church clock. It would make sense that His Holiness, The Pope would
have some sort of timepiece, simply for the historical significance!
Dan
- - My reality check bounced....
- ----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 2:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] uncle walter


> 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