[Leica] bullshit detection assistance

[jls at runbox.com (Jeffery Smith)]

Reminds me of a scam perpetuated by our ex-college president from 20
years ago. After a stint in prison for income tax evasion, he started
Colgate University of Louisiana, apparently located in a Mail Boxes,
etc. (at least that was its mailing address). He needed an impressive
looking building for the brochure, so he used a picture of Notre Dame
Cathedral. The real Colgate University discovered what he was doing and
told him to cease and desist. He countered that it wasn't an
infringement since *his* university was spelled like the toothpaste(!).
I suppose he should have played it safe and called his school Gleem
University or Ipana University.

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com




-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of brad
daly
Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 5:00 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: [Leica] bullshit detection assistance


friends,

i'm in need of a little help in bullshit detection.  the URL below  
links to the homepage of a condo development company that is about to  
start rehabbing a historical building in downtown birmingham.   i  
applaud downtown redevelopment, but i do not appreciate the amount of  
bullshit in both the text and art on this page:

of the four photographs on the right, only the third one down is a  
photograph of a location in birmingham.  i'd to ask your help in  
identifying the other three.

for the record, misleading statements in the text include the  
description of the future condo building's neighborhood as  
"friendly," when it is actually an abandoned area of urban blight,  
and the claim that the building is located near birmingham's light  
rail nexus, when we have no light rail whatsoever (unless you  
consider amtrak and norfolk-southern "light").

here's the url:

http://www.leercorp.com/n.htm

--
brad daly
brad@bradbrad.com
http://www.bradbrad.com

What Would Bill Hicks Say?

"Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental  
woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their  
private parts."
     --Vladimir Nabokov



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