Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:25 AM 7/4/01 -0700, Joe Codispoti wrote: >Happy holiday to all LUGers with a remider not to go >forth with a fith on the Fourth, >or you may not come forth on the fith. My family, thank you, would never be so crude as to restrict themselves to a single fifth on any given day. In any event, on this, the 225th birthday of our national independence, even "three fifths on the Fourth" would be inadequate. We're sticking to quarts, mind you, albeit even these have now been corrupted to the 34-ounce liter in place of the honest 32-ounce quart. On the one hand, I am an officer in the local chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, albeit my qualifying ancestors hadn't a plaint against the Crown -- they were off fighting Native American Agrarian Reformers on the Frontier when that unseemly business on the Coast was occurring. On the other hand, I just got off the phone, wishing a good friend a happy Fourth -- he is a retired Royal Navy Lt Commander who chanced to be "the last man off of HMS Hood" before her demise, and now the British Channel 4 Factual folks are off searching for that lamented ship's remains. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir!