Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>>> Watch this space, because believe me we are only at the very, very beginning of the london/prague/dc/seattle story... and already the people who manned the barricades thirty years ago are finding themselves (reluctantly I expect) on the other side now, sanctioning the very behavior they deplored previously *because they do not have another way to deal with it yet*. We'll be there with our leicas (OT). - - -- Johnny Deadman >>>>> John, here in Italy there's an affectionate/contemptuous name for the people who swapped sides - sessantottini (68ers). I don't think they're very reluctant, back then it meant they got to go to bed with the coolest girls, today they have good jobs to lose. Some people convert even more quickly, I remember the Balliol guy (Balliol JCR at that time had a Stalinist constitution written by this very guy) who was a strong Scargill supporter during the strike then went to work for the Coal Board directly out of college. At my advanced age these things no longer even sadden me, but I was surprised then! I grow old, I grow old, I wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled... Rob. Robert Appleby