Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/12/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:07 AM 12/15/05 -0800, Ted Grant wrote: >World Cup Football? Rugby? Maybe that was it? They throw this sort of egg >shaped white ball to one another while other players try to take it away in >a frenzied clash of bodies and heads enough to leave dead and dying all >over >the field! Now that's real football!!! Not the sissy version where they're >all padded up and wearing hard hats! ;-) That should get a rise! ;-) > >Of which I've shot many many professional games using multi model Leica's. >;-) On topic! ;-) Ted Didn't you tell us once about covering the first Rugby Cup, between C?sar's beloved VI Legio and Caractacus' Top Nine? I recall that you were using a chisel made in Noricum by some chap named Leitz to record the event on lithographic sandstone brought back from the Solingen deposits. That was several centuries before you convinced the wary Scots to take up distilling by pointing out to them the fiscal benefits to be derived thereby. Some years later, or so the story goes, it was your suggestion which caused A Conan Doyle to make rugby the game of choice for his Irish reporter, Mallone, in the Professor Challenger books. According to the Doyle Archives, he sent you a fulsome letter of thanks for the concept, as it played out so well in convincing Lord John Roxbury that Mallone was the lad to take along on that rather odd trek to the Lost World. You really are a treasure. Your depth of chronological knowledge honestly puts Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner to shame: they only pretend to have been there but, well, you WERE there. Drink some more of the Lagavulin, my lad, and you'll remember it all so well. Beannachd leat, of course! Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! NEW FAX NUMBER: +540-343-8505