Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/04/09

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Subject: [Leica] opening bell
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 14:55:36 -0500
References: <20150409160100.CF16C45CE35@vegetablegroup.org> <000601d072df$496fedd0$dc4fc970$@comcast.net> <8ca43054c7b147a381196c36770f212a@WhizzEXM02.whizz.org>

For me, it comes in around 11:00am on Thursday. :-)

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 4/9/2015 2:43 PM, John McMaster wrote:
> I currently get that email about 4:00am on a Friday ;-)
>
> john
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+john=mcmaster.co.nz at leica-users.org] On 
> Behalf Of Robert Clark
> Sent: Friday, 10 April 2015 4:08 a.m.
> To: 'Leica Users Group'
> Subject: Re: [Leica] opening bell
>
> I still get a kick out of reading this...remembering the debate years ago 
> of when was it "officially" Friday!
>
> Robert
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+rclark01=comcast.net at leica-users.org] On 
> Behalf Of reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2015 12:01 PM
> To: lug at leica-users.org
> Subject: [Leica] opening bell
>
> In the village of Kirimati, in the country of Kiribati, it is just after 
> sunrise (06:01) on Friday, so the Leica Users Group 'For-sale Friday' is 
> officially open for business.
>
> Kirimati is pronounced "Kee-ree-mass" and Kiribati is prounced 
> "Kee-ree-bus". The island is known both as Kirimati and Kiritimati.
> Kiritimati is pronounced "Kee-ri-see-mass". (Say it out loud.) When it was 
> an English colony, it was  known as Christmas Island. There is another 
> unrelated island with that name (an Australian territory in the Indian 
> ocean). Kirimati is part of the Line Islands archipelago.
>
> Kirimati is big enough to have two hotels and air service.
> Despite its being a former British nuclear test site, it is now safe in 
> terms of radiation hazard. There is a lot of cast-off military hardware 
> littering the edges of the island, but it serves more as a replacement for 
> pandanus leaves in the roofs of huts than as a danger. Piles of rusting 
> scrap metal serve as landmarks.
>
> There is spectacular fishing for bonefish on the shallow sand flats around 
> the island.  It's slow film country; the light is incredibly intense, 
> being very near the equator.
>
>
> NO ARCHIVE
> server1:~/cals/leicafriday1.sh
>
>
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In reply to: Message from reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us) ([Leica] opening bell)
Message from rclark01 at comcast.net (Robert Clark) ([Leica] opening bell)
Message from john at mcmaster.co.nz (John McMaster) ([Leica] opening bell)