Re: [Leica] Is Appleby REALLY 95? Was: Vanity photos

["Ted Grant" <tedgrant@home.com>]

Buzz,
At first I figured I was the old fart of the LUG, however there are a couple
of other good old "boys" in the 70's also toting Leica's, not sure  any
breaking the 80 mark, but good old Rob just keeps humming along like the
"Pink bunny rabbit" on those Eveready batteries!! He just keeps going &
going! :-)

I do believe it as something to do with Rome atmosphere, great Italian food,
and of course the wine. Not to forget the great lady that cares for him. :-)

However, we have a pledge that as soon as I catch-up with him we're out
after chicks strolling the Piazza Navona or any other locations where those
beautiful Italian females stroll the avenues flaunting there beauty.

The plan is, we're goin' to get us a couple and without a doubt goin' to
have a hell of time and both of us are leaving this world with the biggest
smiles on our faces you've ever seen. Now that's the plan, however one must
always remember it rarely works like this because: "There is our plan, And
there is God's plan. And undoubtedly we'll find our plan doesn't count! "
:-)

And we may just past on to the big darkroom in the sky with the smiles
merely created from the memories of our youth! ;-)

Our biggest problem right now is finding a couple of honeys strolling slow
enough for us to catch ! ;-) Yeah Buzz he's a virile young guy at heart and
won the 100 meter dash in the "All Rome Games for senior sports!. Why he
even set a new world record of  one hour and 15 minutes beating the previous
winner, a 99 year old Italian by 1 second.

Unfortunately his win was disallowed after the pee test results taken half
way through the race, as most of the old guys rarely make it to the
finishline before they gotta go. ;-) It was found he had taken a banned
substance before the race,  "Geritol!"  Undoubtedly giving him a "lift so's
to speak" during the charge to the finish! ;-).

However the only way to confirm the vitality of this lad is to sit on a
plaza during a fine warm after noon sipping exquisite Italian wines and
watch how he glows as the honey's stroll by! :-) :-)
ted


Ted Grant Photography Limited
www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Buzz Hausner" <Buzz@marianmanor.org>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 4:45 AM
Subject: [Leica] Is Appleby REALLY 95? Was: Vanity photos


> Rob...can you PROVE you are ninety-five?  I for one do not believe you.
Has
> any other LUG member actually met Rob?  Can you confirm his great age?  Is
> it true that he taught photography to Jacques Henri Latrigue?  In any
case,
> congratulations, Rob, however old.
>
> Buzz Hausner
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Appleby and Sue Darlow [mailto:laintal@tin.it]
> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 5:41 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: [Leica] Vanity photos
>
>
> I always thought it was the other way...
> Rob (95 today!)
>