Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information