[Leica] Re: INCREDIBLE photo-related content in my SHOES!

[Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>]

So this is what folks, who don't have to work, do...

But the question begs... Is it real or is it imagination?

Perhaps Memorex.

;)

Jim


At 06:06 PM 12/27/2001 -0800, kyle cassidy wrote:
>so i was at ye local thrift shoppe today looking for leicas of course, there
>are never any leicas. (there's an old voigtlander there for $25.) as i'm
>walking through the shoe isle i see a pair of Mephisto Walking Shoes! the
>Tilly Hat of leicasnobs (if you don't believe me, check out the archives).
>my hands are trembling as i yank them down from the shelf, at $9.99 they're
>a STEAL. quickly i unlace my fallingapart combat boot and squeeze my toe
>into the mephisto. it's about four sizes too small. HA! i decide to wear it
>anyway. how can any leica owner be caught dead without them? using a shoe
>horn and three helpful bystanders i wedge my foot into the mephisto; tickled
>to no end realizing how you all will turn green with envy when you see me
>stylishly walking down the street like this:
>
>AUGH! AUGH! AUGH!
>
>three steps advise me to quickly put them back. my toes aching from being
>folded beneath my foot like a closed book i am limping towards the door when
>i see a pair of Definately Very Ugly-Ass Shoes.
>
>They look oddly familiar.
>
>could they be?
>
>yes INDEED! it's a pair of Bruno Magli's!!! the very shoes made fameous by
>photographers harry scull and ej flammer when they both ponied up photos of
>o.j. simpson wearing them at a buffalo bills games in 1993. (previously they
>were made fameous by an unknown assailant who wore them while sawing nicole
>brown simpson's head off.)
>
>i ripped off my combat boots and dove a foot into them: size twelve! a
>perfect fit!!!!
>
>you are all so jealous. i know you are. and to rub it in, later in the week
>i shall post photographs of my new shoes.
>
>kc
>
>p.s. to add even MORE photo content, on the bruno magli homepage
>(www.brunomagli.it) there is a photo essay by ellen von unwerth of some
>nearly naked model running around in spikey heels which must be bruno
>magli's.
>
>p.p.s. these are indeed ugly ass shoes, but the really scary thing is that
>the person who killed nicole brown simpson was wearing these shoes and a
>black sweat suit. talk about bad taste. loafers and a sweat suit? give me a
>break!
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