Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Seth Rosner informed us: Single malt...and Leica > I am reliably informed by a LUGnut (and this release has been pre-approved > by George Tenet) that the LUG, in cooperation with the Lagavulin Distillery, > is quietly organizing a special bottling of the peatiest, maltiest Islay > single malt ever, denominated LUGAVALIN 24. It will be available only to > certified LUG participants - no lurkers. That's the good news. The bad news > is that the Distillery, in an effort to make this the most extraordinary > bottling in its history, plans to let this noxious liquid percolate in the > wood (oak AND sherry casks) for 24 years (they don't dare let it go for a > quarter century); so Ted, my good friend, we are all going to have to last > at least another 24 years! ;-)<<<< Now that's a heck of a good deal gives everyone a goal to live a minimum of 24 years for the "Drink at the end of the tunnel." I thought there was another part to this you may not have been informed of. So allow me this part of the announcement. ;-) I was quietly informed, of course by someone whom I cannot name, ;-) what else is new? That Leica were producing a new 50mm "LUGILUX f. .90" to go to the first 100 Leica M owners to purchase the aformentioned liquid and each of those 100 lenses will be wrapped in "Hermes Shmermes" red leather decorated with an original Leica black dot. Have a good day and save yer money, as the cost is unmentionable at the moment, but a rumoured retail price will be in the range of half of the ion driven digital cameras 24 years away. That is a pile of an unimaginable amount! ;-) So there you go eh something to make a body want to live for another 24 years. ;-) ted - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html