Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I had to add Howard Cummer to my Outlook contact list to keep him from being filtered out. Jeffery Smith New Orleans, LA http://www.400tx.com -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Richard Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 7:56 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: RE: spam: [Leica] photographers who do not want to be photographed It's probably the single paragraph writing style that trips it :-) PLUGgers too. That sounds... dirty :-) At 05:51 PM 5/8/2006, you wrote: >Good heavens, Kyle's email post to the LUG got filtered out by my SPAM >filter. Now, does my SPAM filter see a word or two that caused it to be >flagged and regarded as SPAM? It looks neither pornographic nor an >advertisement for V*I*A*gr*a. I wonder what did it. > >Jeffery Smith >New Orleans, LA >http://www.400tx.com > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org >[mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of >Kyle Cassidy >Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 3:08 PM >To: lug@leica-users.org >Subject: spam: [Leica] photographers who do not want to be photographed > > >i was at ye local PLUG meeting last week (we meet every third wednesday >at 'jiggles' -- a strip club under the bridge over by the landfill, if >you'd like to come, tell Bolt, the biker at the door, that you're with >the camera club, that way he probably won't mace you, which is usually >his response to an unfamilar face -- he assumes anyone who's not >sweating and twitching is a >Narc) and while we were doing the portfolio review (usually this is time >spent flipping through the back pages of the free weekly and comparing the >photos we'd had published of transvestite hookers and greased models >advertisng same-sex chat lines and passing around brown paper envelopes >filled with long-lens telephoto shots of local officials and people not >their wives) i pulled out my leica and snapped a few photos of the group -- >one of the PLUGgers lifted her head up from where she had been disgorging >the contents of her stomache (largely consisting of beer and what appered to >be whole, undigested "cheetoes") into a bucket and barked at me: "i do not >appreciate having my photo taken." i burst out into great peals of laughter >that lasted some long minutes (i can only guess as to how long i actually >laughed but i do recall that as i began i could hear the first strains of >'Dazed and Confused' from the 'Song Remains The Same' live album begining >their weepy tintintabulation on the juke box and by the time i was able to >dry my eyes and continue we were half way through 'Brown Eyed Girl'). >"neither does Sean Penn, you twit" i said, "i was actually only pretending >to take _your_ photo because i didn't want to make you self conscious about >your truely ghastly apperance, fret not, your grim and horriffic visage will >not be appearing on the pages of People Magazine, causing children to run >screaming in terror and old people to wet themselves. move to france, you >troglodite." i was expecting applause from the other PLUGgers, but the only >response was a single, extended and racous belch and a call to the bartender >for more beer, but that's the way things usually go around here. // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please use richard at imagecraft.com) _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information