Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Pat We all play with our objects of choice. Mine happen to be Porsches. Colts and Leicas. My inability with words is what caused me to be an engineer rather than a writer. Jerry Patrick Jelliffe wrote: > Jerry, > > With this new knowledge, we will now expect much much > more of you in the way of word play. > > Regards, > > Patrick > > --- Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@pacbell.net> wrote: > > BD > > > > I never implied that you cannot spell. I usually am > > very sensitive to > > the nuances of the English language. Before I > > majored in English, I > > went to high school with your fellow Pulitzer Prize > > winner, Bill Safire. > > In fact his mother was my Junior High School English > > teacher! > > > > Jerry > > > > bdcolen wrote: > > > > > I don't mean that she is windy; I mean that she is > > gutsy. I use spell > > > check but sometimes accidentally tell it to ignore > > something, as there > > > are so many terms and names it has to ignore. > > (Hey, I have NEVER said I > > > can spell. EVER. Never have, never will. Let's see > > if gustiness gets > > > through Spellcheck this time. ;-) > > > > > > YUP! Just ran Spellcheck, Jerry, and it flew right > > past gustiness. So go > > > complain to Bill Gates, not to me. :-) > > > > > > B. D. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] > > On Behalf Of Jerry > > > Lehrer > > > Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 11:48 AM > > > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > > Subject: Re: [Leica] you go nan > > > > > > BD > > > > > > By "gustiness" do you mean that she is windy, or > > do you not > > > use Spellcheck? > > > > > > Jerry > > > > > > bdcolen wrote: > > > > > > > I'm going to agree - with both of you. I don't > > like her work; don't > > > > think much of it as photography. But I do admire > > her gustiness and her > > > > > > > story telling - I'll just let someone else > > 'read' the stories. :-) > > > > > > > > B. D. > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > > > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] > > On Behalf Of Johnny > > > > Deadman > > > > Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 10:05 AM > > > > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > > > Subject: Re: [Leica] you go nan > > > > > > > > Funny, isn't it? I've always disliked her work > > intensely. Ever since > > > > the Ballad of SD. I don't know why really. I > > just never found the > > > > photographs of her friends and their dramas that > > moving I guess. Many > > > > of them remind of parties that I went to and > > left early, or didn't, > > > > and regretted not having done so. > > > > > > > > On Saturday, June 14, 2003, at 09:46 AM, Kyle > > Cassidy wrote: > > > > > > > > > thanks for pointing out the nan golden > > interview: > > > > > > > > > > http://fototapeta.art.pl/2003/ngie.php > > > > > > > > > > makes me want to drag my leica out of the > > closet.... nan golden's > > > > > always been what photography's about for me -- > > she's not really a > > > > > photographer, or > > > > > at least, she's not a technical virtuoso, > > she's someone with a story > > > > > to tell > > > > > for whom photography has become a vehicle. i > > don't always like her > > > > > pictures > > > > > and and am occasionally repulsed by her > > subjects but i applaud her > > > > > storytelling. > > > > > > > > > > she's always been a great leica ad for me too. > > > > > > > > > > now where is that m6 of mine? > > > > > > > > > > kc... > > > > > -- > > > > > To unsubscribe, see > > > > > > > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > John Brownlow > > > > > > > > pictures: > > > > http://www.pinkheadedbug.com > > > > > > > > warblog: > > > > http://www.unintended-consequences.com > > > > > > > > -- > > > > To unsubscribe, see > > > > > > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > > > > > -- > > > > To unsubscribe, see > > > > > > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, see > > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, see > > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! > http://sbc.yahoo.com > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html