Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/18

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Subject: Re: [Leica] beer and Elcan, sacred cows, and all that jazz...
From: Guy Bennett <gbennett@lainet.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 21:58:23 -0800
References: <200110190213.WAA01051@poseidon_2>
 
>>We are all, however, aware of the $300 hammers purchased by the U.S.
>>military.

>But we can be damned sure that those were *excellent* hammers.
>C


Actually, we cannot: the hammers were lost before anyone was ever able to
use one and determine whether they were actually worth $300 or not.

Well, as Aristotle once put it: "Equium tedaeum doxes."

Hmm.

Guy
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