Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You lead an interesting life ;-) Kyle Cassidy wrote: > A few months ago, I asked the lug those immortal questions: which is better, > All-Clad or Le Creuset? Caphalon or Hecnkles? Does Reverwere belong in a > kitchen? And you responded, and I done outfitted my kitchen, approved by the > LUG, because I want to be the right kind of snob. Here's the results: > > http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/leicaslacker/pots-n-pans/ > > Kyle > > (the origional post:) > > 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 another's 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...." > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands e-mail: n.wajsman@chello.nl Mobile: +31 630 868 671 Photo site: http://www.wajsmanphoto.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html