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Subject: [Leica] Painting M3 / M2 / M4 Black
From: raimo.m.korhonen at uusikaupunki.fi (Raimo K)
Date: Mon Jan 17 13:27:43 2005
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Only worse, IMO.
All the best!
Raimo K
Personal photography homepage at:
http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank Dernie" <Frank.Dernie@btinternet.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Painting M3 / M2 / M4 Black


> The USA is the New Britain. Americans are being criticised today for 
> the same sort of things that the British were in the past.
> Frank
> 
> On 17 Jan, 2005, at 16:08, Slobodan Dimitrov wrote:
> 
>> One of the great feats of American statesmanship has been the 
>> disengagement from french geo-political interests. Had it not 
>> happened, the 19th century would of looked different in ways that we 
>> can only fathom.
>> But as we come into the American century, for the next step to take 
>> place without being unhindered  by historical baggage, the same has to 
>> take place with Great Britain.
>> It would be a gesture whose import would not be lost to those who also 
>> came in contact with Great Britain in the past.
>> S. Dimitrov
>>
>>
>> On Jan 17, 2005, at 3:51 AM, Ian Watts wrote:
>>
>>> Slobodan Dimitrov wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hey, someone asked, and I said I won't bother the list with it.
>>>> if any one takes it further, it's on their heads not mine.
>>>
>>>>>> It's not anything to sweat the list over.
>>>>>> Being from Eastern Europe, the Brits have done far worse than
>>>>>> Schickelgruber ever did. And are doing to this day!
>>>
>>>
>>> Go on let it be on my head. I'm intrigued, Slobodan. What have we 
>>> (British)
>>> done (and continue to do) in Eastern Europe that's got you so upset? 
>>> I've
>>> always thought Eastern Europe was one of the few parts of the world 
>>> that has
>>> historically been off the British radar. I suspect I'm missing 
>>> something
>>> obvious but only a few things come to mind that might be relevant. The
>>> Crimean War (do you also not buy French goods?). The British 
>>> involvement in
>>> repatriating 'Cossacks' and other anti-Communists back to the Soviet 
>>> Union
>>> in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War and, much more 
>>> recently,
>>> the bombing of Serbia as part of NATO. Going rather further back I 
>>> think
>>> English forces may also have taken part (along with other 'Christian'
>>> mercenaries) in a swathe of raping/pillaging across Eastern Europe as 
>>> they
>>> returned from the Crusades.
>>>
>>> Please let us know what you allude to in your recent posts. If it 
>>> causes the
>>> list to 'kick-off' please feel free to blame me for starting it.
>>>
>>> Ian Watts.
>>>
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>> Slobodan Dimitrov
>> Photography
>>
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