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: Henning Wulff <henningw@archiphoto.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 22:34:12 -0700
References: <200110190213.WAA01051@poseidon_2> <v04011703b7f5707c8bb5@[66.81.40.132]>
 
At 9:58 PM -0800 10/18/01, Guy Bennett wrote:
>  >>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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Aristotle....   wasn't he that ancient Greek guy who had a hard time 
being understood by his pupil Alexander the Great because he insisted 
on speaking Latin?

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In reply to: Message from "Emanuel Lowi" <mano@proxyma.net> ([Leica] beer and Elcan, sacred cows, and all that jazz...)
Message from Guy Bennett <gbennett@lainet.com> (Re: [Leica] beer and Elcan, sacred cows, and all that jazz...)