Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Alastair said: >>> Y'all indeed, Seems I'm having a birthday as well this weekend, <<<< Alastair mon ami, Many Happy returns and lots more of them in good health and photographic manner! :-) kindest regards, ted Ted Grant Photography Limited 1817 Feltham Road Victoria BC V8N 2A4 250-477-2156 ----- Original Message ----- From: " Firkin" <firkin@ncable.net.au> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 4:36 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Even further off topic from the off topics... and I wish my > pressie had been as romantic: I love the mechanical minox: the whole > system is a work of art. Congratulations and happy birthday Bob: I'll be > in Chicago in time for your next one ;-) > > Cheers > On 30/11/2006, at 16:30, bob palmieri wrote: > >> Y'all - >> >> So it seems I had a birthday this weekend and decided to get myself a >> frivolous yet practical & affordable present; to this end I'm having Don >> Goldberg send me a rebuilt Minox IIIs. (This simultaneously tags me as >> a sucker for cool machines and also as an unreconstructed film addict.) >> >> Elsewhere in the news someone in the family gave me a really nice Case >> pocketknife which she sez was her grandfather's (she's my age so this is >> a somewhat vintage piece.) It has three blades, two of which are almost >> identical. My father-in-law sez that this is because everyone he knew >> who had a pocketknife back in the day used to break off part of one of >> the blades and grind the stump into a screwdriver. Anyone know if this >> was indeed a common practice in the early-middle parts of the 20th >> century?? >> >> Also, if we keep talkin' about the creativity and craft of certain late >> 60's-early seventies rock bands I just may hafta bring up Mott the >> Hoople... >> >> Bob Palmieri >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.3/561 - Release Date: 01/12/2006 >