[Leica] re: shame on the lug (kyle would have ruined it all anyway)

[Henning Wulff <henningw@archiphoto.com>]

At 8:34 PM -0400 5/10/01, Kyle Cassidy wrote:
>Jon Honeyball admonished the LUG:
>
>>Have here a letter from Leica, from the Academy.
>>It seems that they have cancelled the only two English-speaking courses  
>>Why? "We have received too few registrations for both seminars".
>
>>Are there really no Leica owners or users hereabouts who would like to
>>spend 3 days in Germany, at the Academy, at the Factory, with tuition,
>>with *every* piece of Leica camera equipment sat there waiting for you
>>to try?
>
>>Ever fancied spending a 3 days taking pics with the 35/1.4? Or the
>>75/1.4? Or the Noctilux? Or the legendary 180mm F2 on the R?
>
>ah, i can see it now:
>
>"mr. cassidy, is there a single one of our lenses that you did not get
>blood on?"
>
>"um ... oh, wait, yes, the 50mm summilux 1.4, i'm afraid that fell out of
>my camera bag somewhere in the sewer, long before i got to the abbatoir."
>
>"there seems to be sand in the back of this R8."
>
>"huh. not sandproof eh? you ought to fix that the next time around."
>
>"wait, this isn't sand, it ... why these are cracker crumbs!"
>
>"oh geez. i'm sorry about that. i did have some loose crackers in the
>camera bag. some of them must have gotten pulverized with all the dancing
>at the nude rave."
>
>"and your film is all underexposed, you have no photographs from this nude
>rave."
>
>"sorry about that. i think i had the flash on backwards. but you must
>admit, the slaughterhouse stuff came out pretty nice."
>
>"what? dear god man. what have you done to this m6ttl?"
>
>"done? it's just a little velcro, see, it holds a pencil right there now.
>see, if you need a pencil, you can just pull this one off and write. it's
>actually covering up a huge ding, i'm sorry about that. i was standing on
>the camera bag trying to shoot down liv tyler's blouse at the biker
>party. i must have put my foot on the m6. again, i'm sorry about that."
>
>"that does it mr. cassidy, from now on, there will be NO english language
>classes held by the leica academy. wolf! grip! show this lout to the door,
>and then push him through it!"
>
>kc

I knew there had to be a good reason for them to cancel the show.

Thank you Kyle, for sacrificing yourself in this most considerate manner.

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