Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/02/21

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Ready to blast off
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:46:27 -0800
References: <CAF8hL-E_XTZ3M2EcVs_X7=uuu1-XRs06nYeg3mxZR0cqjm6sJg@mail.gmail.com> <CAH1UNJ1jx8DK+VOjS_gHmOcCx7KKWJ7FDqA3Fjxq5c2m-Hy-Yg@mail.gmail.com> <CAF8hL-FT8AKso11kFMtXGcxzjd1eKDFBB96wFHszD62UctSzfg@mail.gmail.com> <CAH1UNJ34hJ867ZSU7BC40vK-uURZPhu7yZYZo7Ngm0k6c2BQSw@mail.gmail.com>

Ha ha. Got it. I will never get a car that looks like that, especially
since it's about twice as long as our minivan!!

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at 
gmail.com>wrote:

> There were so many shark fins and outlandish bits of metal sticking
> out at all angles that only a tin plate maker would like it (they sold
> more plate). It was, of course, satirical exaggeration, which is what
> Vonnegut's style of writing was all about.
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Richard Man
> <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote:
> > I don't think I understand the phrase? Please enlighten?!
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at 
> > gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Seems like it fits the late Kurt Vonnegut's immortal phrase describing
> >> American cars of the 1950s and 1960s as "a tin plate maker's wet
> >> dream"! (-:
> >> Cheers
> >> Jayanand
> >>
> >> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 4:25 AM, Richard Man
> >> <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote:
> >> > http://www.richardmanphoto.com/PICS/20120221-87.jpg
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/>
> >> > // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.com/blog/>
> >> > // richard's personal photo blog: <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
> >> > [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all
> >> previous
> >> > replies in your msgs. ]
> >> >
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-- 
// richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>


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