Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc, Glad to see you are staying out of the M7 fray and sticking to hairdressers, white wine and brie - a much more worthy area of dispute ;-) Tim A > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Marc James > Small > Sent: September 14, 1999 6:50 AM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: [Leica] Hairdresser? Hairdresser? > > > At 11:12 PM 9/13/1999 -0700, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >And again keeping the sun off your head can save your life > >my hairdresser last year balled me out for having a overly > tanned (spotted) > >hairline. She says her clients are dropping like flies. Claims > to be Imogene > >Cunningham's niece and is quite believable about it. And looks like her. > Has a > >great rap about the tidepools. Her name is Sarah. In NW Portland Oregon. > > Gads. My horror increases. Mark, you CAN rub salt in raw wounds! > > First, the "politically correct" medical message. I grew up in > the son, as > did my entire family. We generally all live into our 80's and nary a case > of melanoma in the bunch of us out to my third or fourth cousins. Damn > little cancer of any sort, and most of us grew up in urban pollution. (I > was raised in the Pittsburgh of green air and funny-tasting water: my > doctors don't waste time fussing at me for smoking a pipe, as I'm already > off the charts for lung cancer.) So, let the UV pour on, guys! > > Second, a HAIRDRESSER? a HAIRDRESSER? Probably in a "unisex styling > salon" of some sort, complete with some dude with a French accent selling > the appropriate fragrances for Today's Man. I had my hair cut yesterday. > Regular, old-style barbarshop. Red-white-and-blue pole out > front. Leather > seats. Lather-and-razor on the neck. Here's the camera connexion: the > guy who founded the shop is a veteran of the US Army's 80th Infantry > Division and was with the Blue Ridgers when they captured the Carl Zeiss > lensworks at Jena in April, '45. (It is now a reserve Division > and was the > unit from which I retired, incidentally, when I completed my > reserve time.) > > I guess I'm just too old-fashioned for you trendy sorts in the American > North-West! (I will admit to making a wicked baked brie and to > swilling an > occasional tun of white wine, but I was doing the both of these > long before > they became fashionable. I also can whump up a grand mess of > fried chicken > and mashed potatoes, too -- extra cholesterol added, lots of salt, and > butter, and so forth.) > > Marc > > msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 > Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! > >