[Leica] Re:kodachrome NOW VOLUNTEERS!!! :-)

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Seth said during a crazed moment of over indulgence swilling the fixer: ;-)

>>> No problem George. Ted, Tina and B.D. have volunteered to emigrate to
> Netherlands to run the machine and do the job for Fred Hess and the rest 
> of us investors.<<<<<<<<

Seth mon ami,
How kind of you to put the three musketeers together on such a wild and 
crazy project.:-)

In the Netherlands is quite OK, no problem at all, good food and beer! ;-) 
Now about the accommodation? The requirements are 3 penthouse suites with 
running everything, maids, butlers, cooks, chauffer with the finest limo's 
available, obviously not one of those squeaky little run about's you lads 
have been going on about. ;-)

You might consider this as our "work flow time." ;-) Absolutely never on 
Saturday, Sunday, Monday morning nor Wednesday morning because we require 
down time from the exhausting pace we'll set when we do our duties on 
Tuesday and Thursday being another full day, Friday is a half day in the 
morning only cleaning up from the labours of all day Thursday.

It's extremely important that you keep these rules, "that's like the 3 of 
us, our rules" in mind when you turn your kodachrome over to our expert and 
caring hands to slosh it through the many dangerous and volatile chemicals 
required to process K film.  Make sure you treat us nicely as I'm sure you 
have handled cases referred to as "Human error mishap." And the film is 
merely replaced due to alleged "mishap by .... no one ever knows because it 
was a human error." ;-) May I suggest you seriously keep this in mind each 
time you hand us your film. ;-) :-)

Now considering no mention has been made of, shall we say... "compensation 
for our diligent handling of your processing duties with professional 
experience!" I mean you didn't really think we'd do this for the love of the 
thing? You didn't, did you old chap? I mean you were quite mad at 
volunteering us in the first place, particularly it being B.D., Tina and 
myself, the 3 vagabonds of the LUG. ;-) I mean surely you weren't into the 
old fixer before volunteering us were you? ;-) Damn brave of you in any 
case! ;-)

I'll leave this for the moment to give you a short time to mull it over, 
which I'm sure you'll return with an extremely generous offer of wages, 
bonuses and stock options. Oh, sorry I nearly forgot, a lengthy summer 
holiday to be spent at our choosing of location. And of course all at your 
expense.  I knew you'd think that was fair. ;-)

And please take extra care to note we pay absolutely no taxes whatsoever!!! 
PERIOD! NADA!  That's your problem because what we get stays in our pocket. 
You and the other machine owners pay the tax.  And there isn't any 
discussion on this matter. It's our way or no way! :-)

Thank you kind sir for volunteering us for such a delicate and dangerous 
assignment. Fun time? ;-)  Meanwhile I'll commiserate with my two colleagues 
in the event I haven' made myself clear (quite probably not.) If that's the 
case just look at it this way, if we do this job, "BABY, YOU ARE GOING TO 
PAY US A HUGE AMOUNT OF MONEY!" It's called fair compensation for our years 
of experience!" :-)  Have a nice day! :-)

ted

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