Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What woke you up, Marc? On 3/14/06 8:01 PM, "Marc James Small" <msmall@infionline.net> wrote: > At 07:45 PM 3/14/06 -0500, B. D. Colen wrote: >> Probably is...:-) Of course Jane Mansfield was probably a triple G or some >> such, while I believe Marylin was a nice, normal C, but I'll bet there's a >> link there somewhere.... >> >> Apologies to Tina and others of the female persuasion.... > > Mel Brooks once pointed out that the use of the term "Jewish persuasion" > was ridiculous, as no one had "persuaded" him to be born Jewish. He > suggested that Jews be described as, well, Jews. A friend of mine once > was, in my presence, asked if he was Jewish, and he simply grinned and > replied that he was "tinged with Mediterraneasism", which reduced all of > us to hoots of laughter, but you've not lived if you've never observed a > stalwart Southern Jew deal with intolerant remarks. They are aces at the > craft and they make the rest of us look foolish for not speaking up before > they do. (Syd is still a friend of mine and will be picking up some of my > cases as I close my law practice. He is an ace of a fellow. > > No one persuaded Tina to be a woman. No one persuaded me to be a man. It > just hapened, and we all have to deal as well as we can witht he rsults. > Tina has obviously done quite well with her abilities, and she is an > inspiration for many of us. > > "Persuasion" rather smells of BLAZING SADDLES. > > Marc > > msmall@aya.yale.edu > Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! > > NEW FAX NUMBER: +540-343-8505 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information