RE: [Leica] Strap stress

[Peterson Arthur G NSSC <PetersonAG@NAVSEA.NAVY.MIL>]

Great story, Steve!  It made my morning.  Thanks.

Art Peterson


		-----Original Message-----
		From:	steve lehuray [mailto:icommag@toad.net]
		Sent:	Wednesday, March 01, 2000 5:45 PM
		To:	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
		Subject:	Re: [Leica] Strap stress

		Well, maybe we are--but then--maybe we're not. Come to think
of it I have 
		been thinking for some time now about asking Dr. LUGER about
the possibility
		of offending peoples sensibilties by using camera straps as
suspenders. I
		have actually had a guilt complex about this for 20 years
now ever since I
		arrived in Annapolis from the islands on my boat after a
three year sojourn
		as a boat bum. And when I walked ashore certainly I looked
like a bum,
		actually more like Robinson Carusoe, except that my cut-off,
ripped Khakis
		(Annapolis has always been a kahki kind of town, in fact
this is where
		Dockers got the idea that this was a very trendy thing) well
anyway I had
		lost so much weight that my khakis would'nt stay up so I
took my two Nikon
		camera straps (I did'nt know Leica from Loktite then) and
fashioned a pair
		of suspenders out of them. So I walked around town like that
for a couple
		weeks feeling very salty with my ripped up clothes and the
black straps
		saying in gold lettering saying NIKON  until one day some
trendy looking
		dude with two Canon (I did'nt know Canon from Carnation in
those days),
		anyway, he had these two Canon's each with humongous zoom
lenses on them. So
		this kool dude stops me and asks "where can I get suspenders
like that? Well
		I thought about it for a minute and then I made up this lie
about having
		been in Hong Kong and having them custom made and with the
NIKON part in
		gold leaf. Well he got all excited wanting to know the
address of the Hong
		Kong company where he could get some made. So, I told him
another big lie,
		that the owner of the company had retired and did not make
them anymore,
		but, I would sell them to him if he also bought my two
Nikons. Well, he
		jumped at the chance. So after giving him my two trusty
Nikons along with
		the 'suspenders' and getting his cash I went out and bought
a new pair of
		khakis. So Dr. LUGER, this has been bothering me all these
years. Do you
		think I did the right thing?
		Steve
		Annapolis

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		>From: Mike Johnston <michaeljohnston@ameritech.net>
		>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
		>Subject: [Leica] Strap stress
		>Date: Wed, Mar 1, 2000, 10:41 AM
		>

		> Are we done with the strap-length discussion yet? I was
wondering if I
		> was going to have to kill myself.
		>
		> --Mike
		>