Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] It's all pots and pans now...
From: "Jack McLain" <jmclainaz@comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 13:43:23 -0700
References: <ECC6F7B330A26C40B652962C47DEA2580208F316@asc02.asc.upenn.edu>

All-Clad copper clad.... (got a dozen eggs aboiling away in a particularlly
fine 4 quart specimen as we speak)

sorry about the dog... a fine, fine looking Czech Boarder Patrol German
Shepherd if I ever saw one!

cheerio
Jack McLain
Tucson, AZ
http://jackmclain-photography.dotcommunity.net

- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kyle Cassidy" <KCassidy@asc.upenn.edu>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 12:55 PM
Subject: [Leica] It's all pots and pans now...


> So..... Let's say I was to have some luggers over for dinner. "What a
> wonderful hat!"  Someone remarks at my Tilley, perched atop my hat rack.
> Everyone photographs it. My dog walks through the kitchen, someone remarks
> "Well! A Brittny! Fancy that! Feisty little pointer!" to which someone
else
> enviously adds "What a lovely breed of upland bird dog! Fine, fine
animal!"
> Shutters whirr and click. After seven or eight glasses of Chivas Brothers
> Royal Salute 50 year old scotch (mmmm!) someone suggests that we go
outside
> and shoot a bunch of the empty scotch bottles with my very impressive
> Browning Citori over-and-under shotguns. We photograph one another firing
> guns and blasting bottles off of one anothers heads. When we can barely
> stand and one or two of us have been winged by stray pellets, we retire to
> the house and stack our cameras on the kitchen table. "Holy crikies!" says
> one of the luggers, stumbling over my 200 year old Hammadan hand knotted
> Persian rug, and collapsing to the floor like a bag of sod and pinecones.
He
> staggers to his feet, pulling the elegant Madeira hand embroydered
Portugese
> tablecloth with him (Leica's clatter and scatter everywhere, but we really
> don't care by now). "You have," he teeters back and someone almost catches
> him, but instead, now off balance, crashes into the stove, knocking my
> Kitchen-Aid mixer into the sink, "you have," says the first lugger,
> staggering to his feet, "the most excellent set of pots and pans!" He
points
> vaguely at my iron pot rack which seems to be swinging from the ceiling.
Or
> maybe the floor is rocking. "Yeah!" chimes in a third lugger, accidentally
> firing the shotgun into the floor, blasting my Bosh rotary hammer drill to
> bits and slightly injuring my dog, "what kind of pots and pans are those?
> They're FANTASTIC!"
>
> "Well," I say proudly, "they're__________________."
>
> Kyle "outfitting his kitchen" Cassidy
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