Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > -- > 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