[LRflex] Re: introduction wrap-up

  • From: Steve Barbour <steve.barbour@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:32:59 -0800

On Feb 15, 2010, at 12:31 AM, Douglas Sharp wrote:

> Fred,
> rest assured, it didn't have the effect on me that it obviously had on 
> Dave, so don't worry.
> 
> I simply saw it is local news with international interest - same as the 
> attempted right-wing demonstration in Dresden reported by Mike, but much 
> more immediate for me as an expat Brit resident in Germany - which 
> turned violent in altercations with the powers that be in other cities 
> when the demonstrators were on their way home.
> 
> The Olympics are about the biggest political event staged anywhere on 
> the planet - even going as far back as 1936 (Berlin), 1972 (Munich) and, 
> in more recent times, Moscow and Los Angeles.


this is a good, friendly, non political group that many of us have belonged to 
for years...

so when someone passes gas, we know it is not the beginning of WWIII



Steve
> 
> Best regards from ice-bound Hannover
> Douglas
> 
> 
> On 15.02.2010 01:22, fdr@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Ooo whee, here I thought I was making a rather clever comment, a verbal
>> description of the who, what, where, (why) and when I saw and experienced
>> on the Vancouver streets.
>> 
>> Breathe in, breathe out. Repeat.
>> 
>> Fred
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> My understanding is that this was supposed to be a forum dedicated to
>> 
>>> sharing comments about leica R cameras, lenses and the photographs
>>> produced by the above. As such, I, at least, don't welcome political
>>> views and i consider their propagation through this medium to be
>>> inconsistent with the aims of this list.
>>> I refer to "masked thugs vandalizing Vancouver Olympic streets". Unless
>>> you've been chasing Asian gangs or bank robbers, this would seem to be a
>>> thinly-veiled reference to Olympic protestors. If you've got photographs
>>> to share; yes. Sharing your political views: non merci.
>>> 
>>> Any more of this crap and I'll be outta here.
>>> 
>>> Dave, Clearwater, BC
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Â
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: "fdr@xxxxxxxxxxx"<fdr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Sent: Sun, February 14, 2010 8:30:31 AM
>>> Subject: [LRflex] Out of Line
>>> 
>>> Greetings All,
>>> 
>>> Between procrastination and running after masked thugs vandalizing
>>> Vancouver Olympic streets I'm only now getting back to your welcoming
>>> comments.
>>> 
>>> Douglas:  thanks for posting the KCR link.  I wouldn't have remembered
>>> that!
>>> 
>>> Richard:  I'll look into Flickr.  I used the viso/65 for my girlfriend's
>>> ornamental grasses slide shows.  Viso, slides, tripod, plants. . . way
>>> different than M, tri-x, handheld on the run, people as we are.  Builds
>>> character.
>>> 
>>> Richard:Â  The LHS Rosenberg was someone else, probably someone with more
>>> social acumen.
>>> 
>>> Marc, and others: Thank you for the compliments on the work.
>>> 
>>> Iâ•˙ve lost the most recent comment(from David?) about B.C. list members.
>>> Itâ•˙s a smaller and smaller world, no?
>>> 
>>> Now to get back to work,
>>> Fred
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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