Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/27

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: INCREDIBLE photo-related content in my SHOES!
From: "Jeffery Smith" <jsmith45@bellsouth.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 19:22:03 -0600

Those of us working in higher education suddenly got some time off, and we
don't budget time well when a lump of it is dumped in our laps.

JLS



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Jim Brick
> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 6:58 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us; leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: [Leica] Re: INCREDIBLE photo-related content in my SHOES!
>
>
> So this is what folks, who don't have to work, do...
>
> But the question begs... Is it real or is it imagination?
>
> Perhaps Memorex.
>
> ;)
>
> Jim
>
>
> At 06:06 PM 12/27/2001 -0800, kyle cassidy wrote:
> >so i was at ye local thrift shoppe today looking for leicas of
> course, there
> >are never any leicas. (there's an old voigtlander there for $25.) as i'm
> >walking through the shoe isle i see a pair of Mephisto Walking Shoes! the
> >Tilly Hat of leicasnobs (if you don't believe me, check out the
> archives).
> >my hands are trembling as i yank them down from the shelf, at
> $9.99 they're
> >a STEAL. quickly i unlace my fallingapart combat boot and squeeze my toe
> >into the mephisto. it's about four sizes too small. HA! i decide
> to wear it
> >anyway. how can any leica owner be caught dead without them? using a shoe
> >horn and three helpful bystanders i wedge my foot into the
> mephisto; tickled
> >to no end realizing how you all will turn green with envy when you see me
> >stylishly walking down the street like this:
> >
> >AUGH! AUGH! AUGH!
> >
> >three steps advise me to quickly put them back. my toes aching from being
> >folded beneath my foot like a closed book i am limping towards
> the door when
> >i see a pair of Definately Very Ugly-Ass Shoes.
> >
> >They look oddly familiar.
> >
> >could they be?
> >
> >yes INDEED! it's a pair of Bruno Magli's!!! the very shoes made
> fameous by
> >photographers harry scull and ej flammer when they both ponied
> up photos of
> >o.j. simpson wearing them at a buffalo bills games in 1993.
> (previously they
> >were made fameous by an unknown assailant who wore them while
> sawing nicole
> >brown simpson's head off.)
> >
> >i ripped off my combat boots and dove a foot into them: size twelve! a
> >perfect fit!!!!
> >
> >you are all so jealous. i know you are. and to rub it in, later
> in the week
> >i shall post photographs of my new shoes.
> >
> >kc
> >
> >p.s. to add even MORE photo content, on the bruno magli homepage
> >(www.brunomagli.it) there is a photo essay by ellen von unwerth of some
> >nearly naked model running around in spikey heels which must be bruno
> >magli's.
> >
> >p.p.s. these are indeed ugly ass shoes, but the really scary
> thing is that
> >the person who killed nicole brown simpson was wearing these shoes and a
> >black sweat suit. talk about bad taste. loafers and a sweat
> suit? give me a
> >break!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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