Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Could be Pepsi, now that I think about it, but I would still vote Coke. Oh, the uncertainty! Buzz - -----Original Message----- From: B. D. Colen [mailto:bdcolen@earthlink.net] Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 11:33 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: RE: [Leica] Meta Photokina I'm not prepared to go to the matt on this one, but I think it was the Pepsi bottle.....Anyone out there who can settle this Pepsi Challenge? 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 Buzz > Hausner > Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 11:19 AM > To: 'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us' > Subject: RE: [Leica] Meta Photokina > > > Raymond Loewe...and it was the Coca-Cola bottle. And the Lucky Strikes > package. And the Studebaker Avanti. And on and on and on. A > true American > genius who, alas, never designed any photographic equipment. > > Buzz Hausner > > -----Original Message----- > From: B. D. Colen [mailto:bdcolen@earthlink.net] > Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 11:01 AM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: RE: [Leica] Meta Photokina > > > Or, where is - damn! I can't remember his name now - the design > genius (and > I use the term here with utmost sincerity and respect) who gave > us the Pepsi > bottle, the GG1 electric locomotive, and the Studebaker Avanti. And I do > know that he's dead, by the way. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of > > Krechtz@aol.com > > Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 10:48 AM > > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > Subject: Re: [Leica] Meta Photokina > > > > > > In a message dated 9/20/00 8:44:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > > bdcolen@earthlink.net writes: > > > > << And if we can't denigrate a designer here, where can we? By > > the way, was > > the > > same design genius responsible for that shoe and for not being able to > > figure out how to get both a battery and self-timer into an M6, > > or was that > > a different design genius? ;-) > > >> > > > > Looks like a job for Porshe Design... > > > > Joe Sobel > > >