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Subject: [Leica] supersized butts too
From: vintagebill at verizon.net (bill harting)
Date: Mon Jun 12 07:06:53 2006
References: <4F488248ADCD6C419976DFE43A115091EBAC7B@sv-ex01.jp2hs.campus>

I'm noticing a strange parallelism with the geebee-clouds thread...

bh

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Arche, Harvey" <Harvey.Arche@jp2hs.org>
To: <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 12:10 AM
Subject: [Leica] supersized butts too


> I'm in Tennessee: I shoot what I see.
> Xtol woes sorted out, here's some stuff that had been waiting to be 
> souped.
>
>>From the mall:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album395/jabba
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album395/babycakes
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album395/handoff
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album395/shopping_pattern
>
> For a promotion at the stock car track, they brought in the 'Green Mamba', 
> a Rolls-Royce engined jet-car. Midway through the evening's races, it came 
> out and did a couple laps. This means that at the beginning of each 
> straightaway the driver hammers the throttle for 2 seconds and then coasts 
> half way around the track, because there's no way they're going to let 
> this sucker get up to speed.
> Thats not what its for.
> They have two junkers stacked in the middle of the infield, and after the 
> scheduled races, the Mamba is going to melt them down!
> So, come time, they roll the Mamba over and chain it to stakes already 
> set, chock the wheels, and let the driver climb in. He weighs about 290 
> and sits in a little cage, presumably to keep him from getting sucked into 
> the engine. Now we have high-speed portable blow torch about 3 feet in 
> diameter, ready to go at it. It takes about 6-8 minutes to reduce the 
> stacked junkers to glowing slag, and then the fire trucks, who have been 
> waiting patiently, roar over from where they were parked about 100 yards 
> away, with full lights and sirens, and hose off the rubble. Big steam 
> clouds, and everybody goes home happy. Is this a great country or what?
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album404/mamba
>
> GOYA & shoot,
> Arche
>
>
>
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