Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]BTW - In the U.S. Q-Tips are a brand of what are otherwise called "cotton swabs." But Q-Tip has entered the vernacular just as Xerox has....You clean out your whatever with a Q-Tip, and you Xerox a document, even if you have shoved a K-Mart house-brand swab into your ear, and the document is being copied on a Mita copier.... B. D. Michael Abbott wrote: > > OK, I've figured out what Q-tips are, thanks all. That's what I sort-of > guessed, but I thought I'd ask. > > I'll have a go at cleaning the scanner, although I probably won't get my > hands on it for a week or two :( . > > Maybe by then I'll have a few leica III pictures to show around - I've been > spending lunches running around with the thing, everyone asks me if it's a > digital camera! > > Michael > > > > What exactly are Q-tips? We might just call them something different > here, > > > or maybe it's time for me to investigate the lens cleaning section at a > > > shop. > > > > Its those sticks you are not supposed to stick in your ears but you do > > anyway! > > Why else would you buy them? > > with the cotton on the ends. > > > Q-tips are what are known as ear-buds in SA > > > You would probably know them as 'Cotton Buds'. > > ------------------------------- > Michael Abbott m@mabot.com > www.mabot.com > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html