Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Welcome back Oddmund, even if your stay will be brief. You always have a talent for offering some thought provoking writing in this group. Hope you stick around for a while. Noel nomansland@altern.org wrote: >Ruddy a écrit: > >> So my advice..leave these OLD men to their leicas..and filters... and >> their COLD LIVES..... > >Yes, I think that was exactly what he did. He told me that he had >unsubscibed after just a couple of days. > >In fact I sent him to the LUG by telling him about the place some time >ago. This man i s a friend of mine, and I subscribed again solely to >defend him. He is off the LUG now, because he understood how infected >this place is/can be and what a spilling of time it is. > >Peter is originally Danish, but he was living i Morocco for forty years. >He came to France when his Moroccan wife and three daughters were killed >in an air accident, and I met him occasionally in a Parisian café last >year. I was in Paris for the weekend and we were both carrying old >Leicas, and that was it. > >He'd been working as a doctor in Morocco, and also for the International >Red Cross in several countries, and he told me lot of interesting >stories (Danes and Norwegians understand each others languages). >Later he showed some very interesting images - he had boxes and boxes... > >He's about 65 or 66 now, but he's younger than me in a way, and in spite >of loosing his beloved family, he's not at all bitter, lost or unsane. >I thought I would just tell you this as a reminder. Don't condemn people >so quickly! Don't think you are apt to be judges - certainly not these >days - those of you hypocritically grabbing to you 'rights' or any other >pretext when it suits you... (the usual nonsense about 'politics' for >instance). > >Peter Moss - a terrorist? Totally ridiculous! There is a French saying >going like this: if 'le ridicule' was deadly, you would (all) be dead >now... > >Go on waving and shouting in the dust of your nombrils. Loose your >time as much as you want. But stop blaming people without knowing them! > >To the others - the nice and sensible members of the LUG (you will know >who) - I wish you all the best! I might stay for some days... > > >Oddmund >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > __________________________________________________________________ Try AOL and get 1045 hours FREE for 45 days! http://free.aol.com/tryaolfree/index.adp?375380 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 for FREE! Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promos=380455 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html