Gee, Mike -- try not to sugar-coat it for us next time. :D ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Johnston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 12:47 AM Subject: Duchess? Where'd she come from?
snip, snip to some of the best ranting I've heard in weeks. Um, Mike ... could I possibly borrow you to have a little talk with my awful, butt-kissing, we-musn't-print-anything-that-could-upset-anyone-in-the-least publisher???? > > So, try though I might to moderate my bigoted tendencies, I do tend to have > a knee-jerk reaction to, well, say, oh, I don't know, let's just pick an > example out of a hat, CAT pictures. Puuuurdy flowers. Calendar / postcard / > Hallmark Card type shots. Generic pretty colors. Fastidious namby-pamby > pinko twee tripod crap with every last little line per millimeter showing, > fine-grain films with no meat or muscle, handbuilt Jerry cameras that cost > their weight in gold, this or that twinkie magic-potion developer and French > froo-froo photo paper and just the right pinch of pyro in the archival > toner...oooooh, lock up the mirror, you might get a bit of mirror vibration, > Nigel, dear, and then what would the freakin' DUCHESS think? The Duchess > don't like blurry pichers! An' don't fer heaven's sake get a scratch on the > commemorative, you'll knock a thousand off its collector value in the > freakin' ORIENT, and THAT wouldn't DO, now would it, ya girdle-wearing, > wine-sippin' sissified tripod-babied mirror-lockin'-up GIT.... - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .