Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My guess is the Newton folks got the idea from Seinfeld..given the time sequence....but Newton didn't do it right...To be perfectly honest, I thought the Kramer idea was really terrific...A coffee table book about coffee tables that could be used as a coffee table...What a GREAT marketing scheme.....What the Newton Folks should have done, if they were going to be consistent, is to have had women's legs fold down from the back of the book to hold it up...:-) B. D. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Jeff Bailey Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2000 11:04 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] An evening with James Nachtwey - -----Original Message----- From: B. D. Colen <bdcolen@earthlink.net> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Saturday, April 29, 2000 11:02 AM Subject: RE: [Leica] An evening with James Nachtwey > BTW, whoever >posted a comment saying that Inferno is too large - I got a look at the >Newton book complete with coffee table - now THAT is a stupid idea. > >Julian >----- Original Message ----- > <snip> There was an episode of Seinfeld where Kramer created a coffee table book about coffee tables. Plus, it had folding out legs making it -- a small coffee table. I wonder if the Seinfeld people got the "Idea" from the Newton book. Either way, it seems stupid to me... Not that there is anything wrong with that... Jeff fish-boy@mindspring.com