Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Rob wrote of Ted... "his mythical status might seem a bit puzzling to an outsider." Just as George Bush's mythical status is puzzling to virtually everyone in the world outside the U.S...I guess you have to live here to even have a chance of understanding it. ;-) B. D. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Rob Appleby Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 11:46 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] the latest madness It was quite an interesting event actually. Ted made some jokes about slavery. I suspect that the people who got angry at him will have made the politically simplistic equation slavery=black slavery in the US. Unfortunately, slavery is a major phenomenon in the modern world, with over 200 million slaves worldwide at the moment (can't remember the source, UN most likely), and no-one has a monopoly on victimhood, nor does anyone hold the moral high ground in this area. Ted left the list - well too bad. He has pissed plenty of people off in his time and he's also been very helpful to a lot of people on this list (I myself have a pair of his underpants as a lens cleaning cloth), but his mythical status might seem a bit puzzling to an outsider. But I'm sure that he wouldn't have had the career he has had, if he wasn't hard as nails underneath the grampa exterior. He'll be back eventually - who could resist the adulation? Unfortunately the LUG is singularly devoid of a sense of humour and doesn't tolerate satire very well - which is pretty much par for the course for the internet. Now if BD left the list - that would be a disaster, in quantitative terms at least! ;-) R. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeffery Smith" <JLS@runbox.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 4:20 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] the latest madness > It happened at the end of the Slavery and Canada thread (which I avoided > looking at altogether). Apparently Ted made some tongue-in-cheek comments > after the thread had gotten completely out of hand, and some folks took him > seriously and flamed him. A learning experience for me: (1) don't say > anything tongue in cheek on the LUG because someone will take it seriously, > and (2) don't take anything seriously on the LUG. This is approaching Sci > Fi proportions. > > JLS > > At 10:14 AM 9/2/2002 -0300, you wrote: > >B. D. Colen wrote: > > > > > I told you what I know to be the case: Ted Grant unsubscribed from the LUG. > > > He did not say anything about taking a breather. He said he was > > > unsubscribing after receiving what he describes as a number of quite nasty > > > off-list messages from list members even after he apologized on-list > > for his > > > post. > > > > > > He didn't say if he'd be back at some point in the future or not. > > > > > > B. D. > > > > > >oh... I missed this !! > >what happened ? > > > >well, people comes and goes... that's life. > > > >Pablo > > > > > >-- > >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 > - -- 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