Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You are completely right Guy but there is a quicker way to do the calculations. 72 ~ 7+2 = 9 ~ nine ~ nein ~ no ~ nada ~ nothing: i.e. black 85 ~ 8+5 = 13 ~ bad luck ~ if you invested in silver when prices were high in 72 (get it....72) you would have had bad luck ~ silver!! JBC > From: Guy Bennett <guybnt@idt.net> > >> I would like to buy 2 M6 TTLs for my outfit, a black and a silver, a 0.72 >> and a 0.85, What combination will you choose? Why? >> >> 1. Black 0.72 & Silver 0.85 >> 2. Silver 0.72 & Black 0.85 >> >> Thanks >> >> Terry Sham > > > terry, > > i recommend the black .72/silver .85 combo for reasons that can be > demonstrated both alphabetically and numerically: > > the word 'black' is made up of 5 letters, whereas 'silver' comprises 6 > letters. 7 minus 2 (from .72, get it?), makes 5, suggesting that the .72 m6 > should be black. now, 8 plus 5 makes 13. subtract 7 (from .72, get it?) and > you have 6; evidently, the .85 m6 should be silver. > > thanks to this brief yet elegant equation, you can select those m bodies > that will aid you in maintaining the state of alphabetico-numerical harmony > necessary for effective picture-making. for this reason, the above combo is > the sound choice. > > guy