Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Just taught The Girl Can't Help It to a class of second year undergrads last week. Jayne is as popular with them as she was in the 50s. Mark On 3/14/06, Jim Shulman <jshul@comcast.net> wrote: > > Girls, please! Put away your emery boards and hatpins! > > Let's have some respect for the late thespian. After all, she did star in > "The Girl Can't Help It" and "The Las Vegas Hillbillys"--the latter with > Mamie Van Doren (where Cinemascope was a necessity, not a gimmick.) > > Back to silver halide. > > Jim Shulman > Bryn Mawr, PA > Birthplace of the late, great Jayne Mansfield > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net@leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Marc > James Small > Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 9:18 PM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] bra size and mortality. > > At 08:34 PM 3/14/06 -0500, B. D. Colen wrote: > >What woke you up, Marc? > > Your rather insensitive and, well, passe, remark caused me to respond. I > wasn't picking a fight with you, BD. I was picking a fight with the > thoughtlessness of the use of "persuasion" to describe a physical reality. > That "persuasion" languages dates from the 1930's and before, and was a > weak thing even then and it was a part of the social divisions of that > era.. > > Marc > > msmall@aya.yale.edu > Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! > > NEW FAX NUMBER: +540-343-8505 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >