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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: O/T...WALT'S DOMKE BAG RANT..LONG and RAMBLING insanity....IGNORE!!!
From: Walter S Delesandri <walt@jove.acs.unt.edu>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 07:45:49 -0500 (Central Daylight Time)

Thanks, Rob and others....
I got a little (?) carried away in my pre-coffee stupor, but I don't THINK 
I said anything I'd disagree with today!!
CU later, 
Walt

On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 18:45:58 +1000 Rob Heyman <rheyman@bigpond.net.au> 
wrote:
> Terrific reply, LOVE IT, keep up the good work, I read every word of your
> reply and agree with you totally that this type of explanation should NOT be
> necessary. But I LOVE a good rant!!!!!!
> 
> Rob
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Walter S Delesandri" <walt@jove.acs.unt.edu>
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Cc: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 11:30 PM
> Subject: [Leica] Re: O/T...WALT'S DOMKE BAG RANT..LONG and RAMBLING
> insanity....IGNORE!!!
> 
> 
> > Actually, I screwed up, again...!!!
> > I meant to send this to Steve, in Denton....
> > but sent to the whole list (wasn't watching the header)....believe it
> > or not, I have received many emails about my Domke F3x bag...
> >
> > It's a reasonably priced bag, I think 60-70 US bux, from any
> supplier...NEW..
> > I'm posting this to the list as well as replying to the emails to be
> polite.
> > If this doesn't pertain to you, you probably should stop reading
> now...!!!..
> > IF YOU DON'T STOP READING< DO NOT SEND ME >>>ANYTHING<<<...
> > Here's the poop:
> > It's a black ballistic F3X bag.
> > I removed the "carry handle" d-rings when new cuz they bothered me.
> > It's near mint in appearance.
> > I was being a smartass when I posted to Steve, but I wasn't "lying"...
> >    the bag, technically, is "for sale"
> > Any sane person would call it "like new", I called it "near mint" because
> >   this is the LUG....probably should have called it a "beater" because I
> >   don't look that closely at MY BAGS.
> > It probably smells like smoke (cigarette and cooking-God-knows-what)
> because it
> > lives in a closet next to my chair and between me and the kitchen
> stove--and might
> > smell like aftershave, depending on when I last carried it.
> > It probably DOESN'T have anthrax on it, but hey, who can be sure?
> > No one has had sex--THAT I KNOW OF-- near OR in the bag.
> > No unauthorized, non Leica repairs have been performed, that I know of....
> >
> > Yes, I'm being cynical, again...BUT HERE'S WHY:
> > I >>THINK<< Feli was JOKING about the plastic bag....I HOPE?...
> >
> > A coupla years ago, I sold some OTHER bags to some (asian, or can I NOT
> say that?) LUNATIC
> > on this group....I represented the bags as functional, worn,
> beaters..structurally
> > perfect...I even joked in the ad about looking "real"...(velveteen rabbit,
> for those
> > familiar)....I boxed and shipped the bags at great trouble and some
> expense, all for
> > $55, I think...AND HE INSISTED THAT I RETURN HIS MONEY BECAUSE THEY
> "SMELLED" and were
> > SOILED!!!...ONLY ON THE L.U.G.!!!....I suggested that he might wash them
> or
> > just lay them out in the sun, but finally, I refunded his money, and to
> his credit
> > he returned them perfectly intact.....BUT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TWO USED,
> CHEAP,
> > BAGS HERE!!!---
> >
> > Had this been some RAGGED-ASSED BLACK ENAMEL PIECE OF CRAP
> MP-with-worn-out-
> > leicavit-that-sucked-when-new, that belonged to some nameless, faceless,
> > PJ from some third world country, he'd have paid $10,000--
> > and not given a damn what it looked like.
> >
> > Again, I was posting to Steve, but yes, the bag IS for sale, I guess...
> > You see, the fact that I felt I ..HAD.. to post the above paragraphs was
> my
> > previous "problem" with the LUG....I enjoy the group, but occasionally
> sign off
> > because I just can't STAND it...!!!...
> > Yes the bag is for sale.  FOB MY HOUSE....all sales final....if you want
> me to
> > ship it, send me $50.  FIRM.  FINAL.  US only.  Preferably Texas.  I'll
> ship it
> > when I DAMN WELL feel like it. (actually the next day)
> > If you don't like it I don't care.  I won't respond to you.
> > If you want a new one that smells like a new Toyota and has no dust on it,
> don't
> > buy mine.  It has NOT been in a hermetically sealed environment.  It
> hasn't been used
> > much, maybe been out of the house 10 times...once to Houston...I might
> have set it down
> > on the floor, so it CERTAINLY has cat hair on the bottom.  And my sweat on
> the strap.
> > (It's humid in Houston, and I'm a fat, ugly, bad smelling bastard--ask
> Will Von Dauster)
> >
> > I apologize for my rant, since it was a mistake that I posted to the whole
> > group....But if any of this offends you, remember, it's the LUG's fault
> that
> > this is necessary....NOT mine....I'm a photographer, not a collector, not
> an
> > academic, not a beaurocrat (sp?)...my gear is very well maintained, to the
> point
> > that >>>>REAL<<<< photographers consider me obsessive and make fun of me,
> > but to the LUG I'm still a slob.
> > I had sworn in 1999 to NEVER sell to anyone on the LUG (although I'd
> certainly buy,
> > and I've sold to several VERY happy folks on the LUG in the past)--nice
> guys who are
> > GONE from the LUG now, wonder why?
> >
> > Have a great Leica day,
> > Walt
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 15 Oct 2001 14:06:16 -0700 Feliciano di Giorgio <feli@d2.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Walter S Delesandri wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I don't know, Steve....I do, however, have a near-mint "official domke
> > > > journalist bag" (F3x ballistic, I think it's called) that's available
> > > > for cheap or trade!!...(too big for leicas, not much good for anything
> else!!)
> > > > :)
> > > > Thanks for the try, tho, you may have won!!!
> > > > Walt
> > >
> > > Is it still in the original plastic bag?
> > >
> > >
> > > feli
> > >
> > >
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