Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Girls, please! Put away your emery boards and hatpins! Let's have some respect for the late thespian. After all, she did star in "The Girl Can't Help It" and "The Las Vegas Hillbillys"--the latter with Mamie Van Doren (where Cinemascope was a necessity, not a gimmick.) Back to silver halide. Jim Shulman Bryn Mawr, PA Birthplace of the late, great Jayne Mansfield -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Marc James Small Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 9:18 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] bra size and mortality. At 08:34 PM 3/14/06 -0500, B. D. Colen wrote: >What woke you up, Marc? Your rather insensitive and, well, passe, remark caused me to respond. I wasn't picking a fight with you, BD. I was picking a fight with the thoughtlessness of the use of "persuasion" to describe a physical reality. That "persuasion" languages dates from the 1930's and before, and was a weak thing even then and it was a part of the social divisions of that era.. Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! NEW FAX NUMBER: +540-343-8505