RE: [Leica] the latest madness

[Jeffery Smith <JLS@runbox.com>]

That might be the best compliment I've heard someone give Dubya. :-)

At 11:57 AM 9/2/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Rob wrote of Ted...
>
>"his
>mythical status might seem a bit puzzling to an outsider."
>
>Just as George Bush's mythical status is puzzling to virtually everyone in
>the world outside the U.S...I guess you have to live here to even have a
>chance of understanding it. ;-)
>
>B. D.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Rob Appleby
>Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 11:46 AM
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: Re: [Leica] the latest madness
>
>
>It was quite an interesting event actually. Ted made some jokes about
>slavery. I suspect that the people who got angry at him will have made the
>politically simplistic equation slavery=black slavery in the US.
>Unfortunately, slavery is a major phenomenon in the modern world, with over
>200 million slaves worldwide at the moment (can't remember the source, UN
>most likely), and no-one has a monopoly on victimhood, nor does anyone hold
>the moral high ground in this area.
>
>Ted left the list - well too bad. He has pissed plenty of people off in his
>time and he's also been very helpful to a lot of people on this list (I
>myself have a pair of his underpants as a lens cleaning cloth), but his
>mythical status might seem a bit puzzling to an outsider. But I'm sure that
>he wouldn't have had the career he has had, if he wasn't hard as nails
>underneath the grampa exterior. He'll be back eventually - who could resist
>the adulation?
>
>Unfortunately the LUG is singularly devoid of a sense of humour and doesn't
>tolerate satire very well - which is pretty much par for the course for the
>internet.
>
>Now if BD left the list - that would be a disaster, in quantitative terms at
>least!  ;-)
>
>R.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jeffery Smith" <JLS@runbox.com>
>To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 4:20 PM
>Subject: Re: [Leica] the latest madness
>
>
> > It happened at the end of the Slavery and Canada thread (which I avoided
> > looking at altogether). Apparently Ted made some tongue-in-cheek comments
> > after the thread had gotten completely out of hand, and some folks took
>him
> > seriously and flamed him. A learning experience for me: (1) don't say
> > anything tongue in cheek on the LUG because someone will take it
>seriously,
> > and (2) don't take anything seriously on the LUG. This is approaching Sci
> > Fi proportions.
> >
> > JLS
> >
> > At 10:14 AM 9/2/2002 -0300, you wrote:
> > >B. D. Colen wrote:
> > >
> > > > I told you what I know to be the case: Ted Grant unsubscribed from the
>LUG.
> > > > He did not say anything about taking a breather. He said he was
> > > > unsubscribing after receiving what he describes as a number of quite
>nasty
> > > > off-list messages from list members even after he apologized on-list
> > > for his
> > > > post.
> > > >
> > > > He didn't say if he'd be back at some point in the future or not.
> > > >
> > > > B. D.
> > >
> > >
> > >oh... I missed this !!
> > >what happened ?
> > >
> > >well, people comes and goes... that's life.
> > >
> > >Pablo
> > >
> > >
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