Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric- In re your last post... you didn't fall down and bump the ole noggin, did you? smack yourself with the film advance lever by lettting go too soon? Dan, The Obeah Man ( this superstitious Millennium bushwah doesn't bother me at all... I just sacraficed two chickens and sprinkled the gizzards on my mojo, so I'm okay) - -----Original Message----- From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Friday, April 16, 1999 8:58 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] X-raying of films >At 12:56 PM 4/16/99 -0400, you wrote: >>So how about starting the 700(?) member LUGBC? > >The planets are lining up! Earthquakes are going to destroy the Solms plant >for their evil plot to scratch film, keep our 75 Summiluxs out of focus to >enrich the film manufacturers that give them kickbacks of $666 for each >M666 they sell! > >Buy your Leicas fast. No 700 LUGBC clubber will want to be without one! > >For only $35 a month, for the next 666 months, you can have your very own >trilateral millennial edition M666 set. It includes a special M6 with >goatskin leather, a viewfinder with frames for one lens - a 50mm 0.7 >Noctilenial and a viewfinder magnification of 1.0X. > >It comes with a built-in lens shade and a UV filter that has no glass, but >comes with a bottle of Scotchguard to spray on the front element to protect >it. No red dots. It has a black dot, with the name Leica M666 inscribed, in >black. But red tape is available to cover it. > >And if you act now, we'll throw in the commemorative R8 Armageddon edition >motor drive. It comes inscribed with the immortal words: > >"When hell freezes over, and it did." * > > > > > > >*(Subject to availability. Offer not valid in any state where Canon or >Nikon is offering a similar deal, or it's illegal, or both. Warning, red >tape is known to cause blindness in subjects not wearing shades. Leica will >not accept liability for unfulfilled promises, prophecies or failed claims >that this is the end of the world. Unless the R8 motor drive does appear, >then it surely is the end of all time.) > >Eric Welch >St. Joseph, MO >http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch > >My computer's sick. I think my modem is a carrier.