[Leica] still more on Leica "rumour"

[summicron at bellsouth.net (Frank F. Farmer)]

Yep, but none of this is as bad as the Chinese newspaper picking up the 
Onion article about Congress demanding a retractable dome for the capital to 
prevent a strike!  ;-)  I think that happened about a year or two ago.

Frank Farmer
Jackson, Miss.

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From: Allen Graves <p_intern@bellsouth.net>
Date: 2006/01/04 Wed AM 10:34:09 CST
To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
Subject: Re: [Leica] still more on Leica "rumour"

And don't forget the Washington Post.

Allen

jon.stanton@comcast.net wrote:
> Hasn't this been the NYT style of repotage for years??
> 
> 
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Thinkofcole@aol.com
> 
>>Here's what may have happened: 
>> 
>>On Dec. 29, a photography site in Spain called Caborian.com ran what it  
>>called an April's Fools item in Spanish {see its dec. 29 posting}  saying 
>>that 
>>in 
>>Spain the equivalent of April fools is celebrated on Dec. 28 and that  "on 
>>Caborian we wanted to maintain the tradition, publishing false news of the 
>> 
>>merger of Canon and Leica." Here is the Dec. 29 posting...[it does not 
>>mention  
>>Asahi Shimbun].
>>      
> 
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