Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/21

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Meta Photokina
From: "stant" <stant@spokenwar.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 10:19:30 -0600

I'm a photographer!

COKE!

Why?

Coke my tle glasses, of course...

- -----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 9:55 AM
To: 'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us'
Subject: RE: [Leica] Meta Photokina

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
> >
>