You make me laugh Cy! You hold stock? HAHAHA! :-)
This is the kind of stuff that should be reserved for Friday!
And your right... I consider McD's to be one of the 20th century plagues...
right up there with Taco Bell. Even though sometimes on trips I'll stop at
8PM and get 6 cheeseburgers that'll keep me awake driving until 2AM.
I'm sure it can't be good for me though. What's the board's opinion on
this? :-)
Tom C.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cy Galley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: A TRAGIC, TRAGIC day....
> You repeating a probably slanderous statement without checking to see if
it
> is true is very disappointing. This is especially true as it is COMPLETE
> OFF TOPIC! What does McDonald's purchases have to do with Pentax??? Do
you
> have a grudge against the Corp?
>
> An angry stockholder who is forwarding your comments to The McDonald's
Corp.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "aimcompute" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 11:19 AM
> Subject: Re: A TRAGIC, TRAGIC day....
>
>
> > My goodness Tanya. I can't stop crying... I've banged mine hard on the
> > kitchen counter once while holding it in my hand and I've had it roll
off
> > the car seat to the floor of the car while braking too hard, but nothing
> > like this. I feel your pain.
> >
> > Comfort comes in the fact that you cared most about was most precious
and
> > the only tragedy was an inanimate object(s).
> >
> > It might do the rest of us some good if you could take some shots of the
> > pieces you recovered. I'm quite curious what a PZ-1p/lens looks like
> after
> > a 50 ft drop.
> >
> > OT: Possible wives-tale. My wife was telling me last weekend that one
> her
> > girlfriend's aways back husband was a beef buyer and would travel the
> > country to cattle auctions. The term "cancer-beef" apparently applied
to
> > cattle that had tumors and were otherwise "unprime". Apparently,
> according
> > to the story, McDonalds was consistently the buyer of this kind of
> livestock
> > and always bought it up quickly.
> >
> > Tom C.
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Tanya & Russell Mayer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Pentax Discussion List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 6:30 AM
> > Subject: A TRAGIC, TRAGIC day....
> >
> >
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I apologise for my tardiness in keeping up with all of your wonderful
> > > replies - all I can do is blame it on the fact that today was shopping
> day
> > > and I had to screaming kids begging me to take them to Macca's for
> "happy
> > > meals".
> > >
> > > However, I digress, and as such I must now revert back to the tragedy
of
> > > today. Actually, multiple tragedies really, so here goes....
> > >
> > > So we went to M'Donalds - just me and my two toddlers. Had a nice
lunch
> > and
> > > decided to go up to our local tourist lookout for a walk. Being a
nice
> > day,
> > > naturally, I chose to take with me my trusty third baby (my other two
> are
> > > human), my PZ-1P. <Warning, the following may be distressing for some
> > > readers, and especially the author> We got to the top and it was
almost
> > > sunset, so I thought, hey, why don't I set up my tripod and take some
> > > selfportraits of myself and my boys with the sunset behind us. Hmmm,
so
> > far
> > > so good. Tripod set up, cable release set up, smile, snap! smile,
snap!
> a
> > > couple of nice pics for sure. Of course after two photos, my almost
> three
> > > year old (my oldest), decided to make a bolt for it categorically
> stating
> > > that he wanted to "play in park, no more pottos mum". With that, he
> > bolted
> > > down the path of the lookout. Me being a normal, concerned mum, tried
> to
> > > grab him for fear of him falling over the 50ft cliff on the other side
> of
> > > the walkway, whilst trying to hold my other baby (aged 16 months) and
> > > untangle myself from my cable release at the same time. I am almost
too
> > > upset to even type this, but, alas, I shall continue, if not to
console
> > > myself, then to at least make somebody out there feel some morsel of
> pity
> > > for me! The following moments were like one of those slow motion
scenes
> > out
> > > of a movie where all the sound gets blurred and somebody yells out
> > > "nooooooo" whilst trying fruitlessly to prevent a tragedy from
> happening.
> > > Well, today, I was that somebody and my tragedy did happen. Lets just
> say
> > > that my Pz-1p, complete with sigma 28-80 macro zoom, pentax cable
> release,
> > > achiever 630af flash and (crappy) vanguard tripod, all went a tumbling
> > > straight over the cliff face. About 10 seconds and 50ft later, I
opened
> > up
> > > my eyes (after all of the crashing and smashing sounds had stopped) to
> > find
> > > debris scattered down the cliff face at a huge variety of intervals.
I
> am
> > > so devastated, that camera was indeed my baby. I can't buy anything
> else
> > > this year (except maybe something pretty cheap and nasty), as we are
> > > building a house and I start Uni next year which will be expensive, so
> > now,
> > > I am stuck with nothing but an MZ-50. (Despite my previous claims
that
> I
> > > have a Pt-30, I was actually exagerrating a little in the assumption
> that
> > I
> > > would win an auction that I was bidding for it on. In a wonderful
> climax
> > to
> > > my day, I arrived home to find that I had been outbidded, and the
> auction
> > > had ended while I was trying to climb down the cliff and rescue my
> little
> > > black pieces of metal and glass that were once a very expensive
> camera.)!
> > I
> > > am in a severe state of shock and mourning, I sure hope some of you
guys
> > > have some miraculous words of comfort....BTW, I had only had the PZ-1p
> > since
> > > Christmas, after I saved for two months to buy the thing! So, can
> anybody
> > > hazard a guess at which item (apart from the cable release which
didn't
> > have
> > > a scratch on it) survived this travesty? The crappy Achiever Flash,
of
> > > course! I must have done something really bad in a past life to
deserve
> > > such torture......I will never again enjoy a "happy" meal......
> > > :-(
> > > Tanya.
> > >
> > >
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