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Subject: RE: [Leica] How to photograph your cat
From: Steve Barbour <kididdoc@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 14:34:43 -0700
References: <000401c2cc91$c7b04f20$0200a8c0@jim>

ROTFLMAO....Steve

>Sorry, but this is a lot closer to the truth than you'd think.
>
>One of the cats is about to cash in with an exclusive to the National
>Enquirer, "Torrid Times: He Left His Pussy Begging For More!!"
>
>Jim Shulman
>Bryn Mawr, PA
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Steve
>Barbour
>Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 4:08 PM
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: Re: [Leica] How to photograph your cat
>
>
>please tell us Kyle that this is fantasy, and not the story of your
>life, in a hundred words or less...      ;-)     (only a little
>jealous)  Steve
>
>
>>From my upcoming book _How to Photograph Anything_ (looking for a
>publisher
>>at the moment). This is chapter 4 "How to Photograph Your Cat"
>>
>>1) invite some model home on the pretext that your liquor cabnet is
>awash in
>>absinthe, recently smuggled back from lands where they don't yet know
>>better.
>>
>>2) spend about five hours getting potted and listening to alice cooper.
>>
>>3) phone rings, it's mom, ask her "Isn't it past your bedtime? Who gave
>you
>>this number? I'll call you tomorrow."
>>
>>4) hang up telephones. sway back into living room, wondering why there
>are
>>suddenly two models. ask both of them "shouldn't we take some photos
>before
>>the sun comes up?"
>>
>>5) while trying to figure out why the two flashes aren't giving off any
>>light when power switch is set to "on", stare blankly at the floor for
>two
>>minutes before remembering that it's not a hot light and that it only
>lights
>>up for a fraction of a second and only when triggered.
>>
>>6) set palms on fire trying to pat out flaming absinthe one of the
>models
>>spills on the stairs.
>>
>>7) manage a few photos of models who then run upstairs to see if any
>liquor
>>remains in house which has escaped watchful eyes of rock band recently
>>crashed on living room floor.
>>
>>8) jealous cats jump up on chairs asking "don't you love us more than
>them?"
>>
>>9) snap a few photos of cats and chase them off of chairs.
>>
>>10) next few steps very hazy....
>>
>>11) wake up with face crusted to bathroom floor, flip through prints
>and
>>realize one model and one cat did not show up on film yet have distinct
>(if
>>completely fuzzy) memory of them.
>>
>>12) realize phone number model left on napkin begins with "555"
>>
>>13) post cat images to LUG.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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In reply to: Message from "Jim Shulman" <garcia@chesco.com> (RE: [Leica] How to photograph your cat)