Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/03

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Scotch and Leica
From: "George Kenney" <georgekenney@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:09:42 -0400

I'll take any half-decent Irish whiskey over all that Scotch stuff. 
Worse than cognac, if you ask me. But just give me a nice glass of 
pastis if spirits are on the menu...

G.

On 3 Apr 2001, at 11:18, Buzz Hausner wrote:

> The Curmudgeon rises to warn all whisky correspondents...especially
> those who drink treacley, over-sherried whiskies such as The
> Macallan...that the LUG tends to have a very low tolerance for
> discussions of whisky or undergarments.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas Cooper [mailto:douglas@dysmedia.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 10:40 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Scotch and Leica
> 
> 
> As a solid Macallan partisan, I'm definitely in favor of the DR
> Summicron. This accords with my lens-testing advice, by the way: 
> Macallan (a cheaper single malt) came first in a famous blind
> taste-testing some years ago. Lagavulin, of course, will not be
> appreciated by anybody but the most serious devotees of the
> double-stroke M3 and the Canon 50/1.4 LTM.
> 
> 
> Douglas Cooper
> http://www.dysmedia.com
> 
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