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Subject: [Leica] Promotions?
From: frank.dernie at btinternet.com (FRANK DERNIE)
Date: Sun Oct 12 19:57:37 2008

Hi Ted,
your comment regarding the silliness about Hollywood types reminds me of the 
amusing headline about the Oscars ceremony in the satirical web site 
Daily-Mash.
"millionaires give prizes to other millionaires for dressing up and 
pretending to be somebody else"
:-)
Frank


--- On Mon, 13/10/08, Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote:

> From: Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca>
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Promotions?
> To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Monday, 13 October, 2008, 12:55 AM
> Hoppy you addressed your post correctly! Ted & Tina! :-)
> 
> We think a like! :-)
> 
> This silliness of playing to the mentally challenged
> Hollywood types,
> regardless if Brad got paid a ton of money or not as all
> that points up any
> idiot Hollywood type can sell pictures of any other
> Hollywood type, good,
> bad or ugly! And only because the magazine readers of this
> crap are as
> shallow of mind as a dried creek bed!
> 
> So much for my rant on the Hollywood scene and stupid Leica
> promotion
> garbage! 
> 
> Maybe some day Leica will get it right and use real users
> of Leica gear
> rather than relying on the ?big name types!?
> 
> A promo example of what they were hand that would have
> shown the world the
> kind of great photography possible with a Leica is our book
> LUG book!
> ?Family of Man 2!?
> 
>  
> 
> Hell if Leica had two pennies worth of intelligence they
> could?ve used the
> book as their biggest international promotion package ever
> handed to them by
> an international group of Leica,  ?USING FOR REAL
> PHOTOGRAPHERS!!!!?
> 
> I suppose there?s an answer to this stupidity?
> 
> Oh well back to the meds or a Single malt Scotch whichever
> I get to first!
> :-(
> 
> ted
> 
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca@leica-users.org] On
> Behalf Of Geoff
> Hopkinson
> Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 4:23 PM
> To: 'Leica Users Group'
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Promotions?
> 
>  
> 
> Now Ted, I mean Tina, don't be too grumpy ;-)
> 
> I think maybe the gossip magazine text should be
> discounted. At least I only
> 
> see two ladies in stylish evening frocks. The ladies are
> showing the new
> 
> compacts. I think that the C-LUX is being marketed as a
> stylish fashionable
> 
> camera. I don't think that Leica has any connection
> with Batgwa.com,
> 
> whatever that is. They seem to have just used the photo
> from the Leica night
> 
> with their gossip article. Even that is very much less
> trashy to me than
> 
> anything I see in the media that concerns Hollywood bad
> girls. The article
> 
> actually says that Bernice has just returned from Greenland
> from filming a
> 
> TVB travelogue and she loves taking pictures. When she was
> in Greenland, she
> 
> captured a lot of scenery and memories on her camera.
> Doesn't sound too bad,
> 
> does it? 
> 
> Did you see that Brad Pitt has sold pictures by him of
> Angelina for some
> 
> obscene amount of money? I think he uses an M6? Do you
> think that it should
> 
> be pictures of Brad with his M instead?
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Geoff
> 
> Aber Masse kann Klasse nicht ersetzen....Aber die R10
> kommt. 
> 
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/e
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/
> 
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> Subject: [Leica] Promotions?
> 
>  
> 
> LUG:
> 
>  
> 
> Yuck!  How much money does Leica spend on this kind of
> garbage:
> 
>  
> 
> <http://batgwa.com/story.php?id=1263>Charmaine Sheh
> Says Kevin Is Faithful
> 
> batgwa.com - London,UK Charmaine Sheh (?e????) and
> Bernice Liu (??????)
> 
> appeared in some sexy low-cut dresses for the Leica Night
> promotion for the
> 
> camera brand yesterday. ...
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Tina
> 
>  
> 
> Tina Manley
> 
> www.tinamanley.com 
> 
>  
> 
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