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Subject: [Leica] unboxing
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:04:22 -0500

integral not astragal
http://homepage.mac.com/galoot_9/astragal.html
I had to look it up to find out what it means.


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Mark William Rabiner

> From: Mark William Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:00:57 -0500
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] unboxing
> 
> That's show biz if these was really a first unboxing it could be really
> tedious watching someone fumble around endlessly trying to find the next
> secret latch the gnomes  from Solms have come up with for them.
> As is this is in effect a bit of a fake but that's ok with me.
> The guy new EXACTLY where to reach for everything and when.
> It was L like he was doing it by remote control; on auto pilot. In his
> sleep. Yet passing it off as a real "event".
> But I like things which are ordered.
> Spontaneity  can get way out of hand. Who needs it?
> 
> We we didn't get in this new genre,  "the unboxing" is a feeling of
> excitement and discovery which we usually get and which is really an
> astragal part of this new art form it seems to me. This box was more
> complicated than an ancient wooden maze puzzle from some exotic land.
> I think the average genius would take an hour to figure it out. And that's
> on two cups of coffee and a candy bar.
> 
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> 
>> From: Jim Shulman <jshul at comcast.net>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 19:29:12 -0500
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] unboxing
>> 
>> Reminds me of the opening sequence of "Get Smart!"
>> 
>> Jim Shulman
>> Wynnewood, PA
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net at leica-users.org
>> [mailto:lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Ric
>> Carter
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 7:26 PM
>> To: Leica Users Group
>> Subject: [Leica] unboxing
>> 
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6s0hynipAQ
>> 
>> ric
>> 
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