Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/21

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Camera Bag Recommendations
From: "Henning J. Wulff" <henningw@archiphoto.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 11:20:05 -0800

At 6:18 AM -0800 3/21/00, Paul Chefurka wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Bmceowen@aol.com [mailto:Bmceowen@aol.com]
>>Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 7:34 AM
>>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>>Subject: Re: [Leica] Camera Bag Recommendations
>>
>>
>>
>>In a message dated 3/20/00 9:15:30 PM, john.bean@ukonline.co.uk writes:
>>
>><< Sorry, totally OT, but I do wish US writers would avoid terms like
>>"fannypacks". I try to avoid English schoolboy mirth, but I fail. >>
>>
>>Yeah, I much prefer the term "buttpack." But what do you call
>>it when you swing it around in front?
>>
>>Bob (a fanny of buttpacks) McEowen
>
>Why, then it becomes a codpiece, no?  English lugnuts will surely identify
>with that term...

I think in some parts of the UK it would then be called a sporan. Although
putting an M camera with Noctilux in there could be an annoyance during a
fast trot.

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