Re: OT The 30 Harshest Artist-on-Artist Insults In History
Sorry. The phrase is "Not even wrong". "No even wrong" is successfully wrong. On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Steven Desjardins wrote: > Pauli's famous line about scientific theories that we so incomplete as > to be pointless: No even wrong. > > On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 3:02 AM, David Mann wrote: >> On Sep 8, 2011, at 10:23 PM, Brian Walters wrote: >> >>> Perth? Is that part of Australia?... >> >> Ouch, I thought you Aussies were more patriotic than that. >> >> I'd offer to swap you Perth for Auckland but we'd end up being responsible >> for Rolf Harris... >> >> Cheers, >> Dave >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > > > -- > Steve Desjardins > -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Pauli's famous line about scientific theories that we so incomplete as to be pointless: No even wrong. On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 3:02 AM, David Mann wrote: > On Sep 8, 2011, at 10:23 PM, Brian Walters wrote: > >> Perth? Is that part of Australia?... > > Ouch, I thought you Aussies were more patriotic than that. > > I'd offer to swap you Perth for Auckland but we'd end up being responsible > for Rolf Harris... > > Cheers, > Dave > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Sep 8, 2011, at 10:23 PM, Brian Walters wrote: > Perth? Is that part of Australia?... Ouch, I thought you Aussies were more patriotic than that. I'd offer to swap you Perth for Auckland but we'd end up being responsible for Rolf Harris... Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On 9/7/2011 5:33 PM, Bob W wrote: Bob W wrote: One of the greatest art feuds was between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. Leonardo famously said that Michelangelo's anatomical pictures "look like a bag of walnuts". And I agree with him. The version of the story I heard had him using "sack of potatoes", but DaVinci probably wouldn't have been familiar with that New World food so "bag of walnuts" makes more sense. And, yes, he was right. Mark Roberts - Photography& Multimedia www.robertstech.com recent research into his childhood sketchbooks have proved that in fact Leonardo da Vinci invented the potato. B And the Florence Fry, an idea almost immediately stolen by the French... -- Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a lengthily search. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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"Ken Waller" wrote: >Its just a matter of finding a small enough, twisty enough track and/or >racing in the rain. One of my regional races, way back when, was at >Waterford Hills, Michigan - named by Stirling Moss as one of the best small >tracks he'd ever seen. > >I was driving a 72 Pinto that competed in the under 2.0 L Trans Am. For the >feature race, run in the rain, I outran several higher horsepower race cars >and finished ahead of them. They were all over the track in the rain. I did an endurance race in the rain once. On an FZR400 I was able to pass quite a few GSXR750s and similar big bikes that simply couldn't get any power down. After my friend came in from the first shift he warned me not to exit corners above 7000 rpm, which is odd because standard procedure with the FZR400 was to always keep the revs between 10-14 thou. But the first time I tried coming out of a corner at 8000 rpm showed me in quite dramatic fashion that 7000 was the right number! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Three of my favorite ripostes are by Winston Churchill: Lady Astor to Churchill: "Winston, if you were my husband I would flavour your coffee with poison." Churchill: "Madam, if I were your husband, I should drink it." Bessie Braddock to Churchill: "Winston, you're drunk!" Churchill: "Bessie, you're ugly, very ugly. Tomorrow morning I shall be sober." Playwright George Bernard Shaw invited Winston Churchill to the first night of his newest play, enclosing two tickets: “One for yourself and one for a friend – if you have one.” Churchill wrote back, saying he couldn’t make it, but he would like tickets for the second night – “if there is one.” Regards, Jim -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 08:20:10AM -0400, Doug Franklin wrote: > On 2011-09-08 1:30, John Francis wrote: > > >Nothing new there. That's exactly the scenario that unfolded around > >40 years ago, except in that case the powerhouses were Ford Galaxies, > >and the roller skates were Mini Coopers. > > It's pretty much unavoidable when the day is long enough for six or > seven run groups and you're trying to stuff thirty or forty classes > into them. That doesn't make it less frustrating on track, though. Oh, the Minis-vs-Galaxies battles were extremely entertaining (at least from a spectator viewpoint). I've seen them at Silverstone (a circuit with long, fast straights where the Galaxies disappeared in the distance) and on the club circuit at Brands Hatch (1.3 twisty miles). The cars would pass and re-pass each other at several different points on every lap, but still got to the start-finish line in about the same time. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On 08/09/2011 3:08 AM, Dario Bonazza wrote: What if Aussies go to Canada? We teach them about beer and barbecuing. -- William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Enjoy the experience - the Cayman should be a touch faster than the Boxster if they're both the base or 'S' model. Be sure to relate the experience here. Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: "Cotty" Subject: Re: OT The 30 Harshest Artist-on-Artist Insults In History On 7/9/11, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed: On the track, I'm sure that you're a real tosser. Just thought I'd chip in here to stir a bit :) Filming corporate video tomorrow for one of my clients who are holding an annual conference with morning seminars. In the afternoon, the 60 odd delegates will get some track time, which we can film also. Track time? Yup - the venue is the Porsche Experience Centre at Silverstone, with the race circuit just feet away hosting a Le Mans series this weekend IIRC. The other cameraman and me will be having a go in either a Cayman or a Boxster :) I told him shiny side up please. Then three days of editing !! -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche -- http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Its just a matter of finding a small enough, twisty enough track and/or racing in the rain. One of my regional races, way back when, was at Waterford Hills, Michigan - named by Stirling Moss as one of the best small tracks he'd ever seen. I was driving a 72 Pinto that competed in the under 2.0 L Trans Am. For the feature race, run in the rain, I outran several higher horsepower race cars and finished ahead of them. They were all over the track in the rain. Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: "John Francis" Subject: Re: OT The 30 Harshest Artist-on-Artist Insults In History On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 11:37:21PM -0400, Doug Franklin wrote: On 2011-09-07 22:39, Anthony Farr wrote: >But >they were much more powerful and faster in a straight line. Through >the bendy bits they really were "mobile chicanes". Several run groups at your typical SCCA event will have that flavor, due to the classes that end up combined sometimes. I think the worst I've seen was a run group that included both GT1 monster horsepower cars and GT-Lites (or was it GT4 back then) which handled like roller skates but had zip for power compared to the GT1 cars. GT1s took off like scalded cats on the straights, and got caught up by the Lites in the twisty bits. Lap after lap after lap. Nothing new there. That's exactly the scenario that unfolded around 40 years ago, except in that case the powerhouses were Ford Galaxies, and the roller skates were Mini Coopers. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On 2011-09-08 1:30, John Francis wrote: Nothing new there. That's exactly the scenario that unfolded around 40 years ago, except in that case the powerhouses were Ford Galaxies, and the roller skates were Mini Coopers. It's pretty much unavoidable when the day is long enough for six or seven run groups and you're trying to stuff thirty or forty classes into them. That doesn't make it less frustrating on track, though. -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On 2011-09-08 0:48, Larry Colen wrote: On Sep 7, 2011, at 8:32 PM, Doug Franklin wrote: "Passable" if it's someone else's car, "throwable" if it's mine. ;-) On the track, I'm sure that you're a real tosser. Off track, too. :-) -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Thursday, September 08, 2011 11:08 AM, "Dario Bonazza" wrote: > David Mann wrote: > > > One of my favourites was uttered by our late Prime Minister Robert Muldoon > > who was in office from 1975 to 1984. > > > > "Any NZer who moves to Australia raises the average IQ of both countries." > > > > Having said that, a friend of mine is moving to Perth in October. > > > > Cheers, > > Dave > > What if Aussies go to Canada? They freeze and are never heard of again. Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Choose from over 50 domains or use your own -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Thursday, September 08, 2011 8:56 PM, "David Mann" wrote: > On Sep 8, 2011, at 3:12 PM, Brian Walters wrote: > > > Well, seeing as we've strayed from the Artist-on-Artist insults, one of > > my favourite put downs was by then Australian Prime Minister Gough > > Whitlam. > > One of my favourites was uttered by our late Prime Minister Robert > Muldoon who was in office from 1975 to 1984. > > "Any NZer who moves to Australia raises the average IQ of both > countries." > > Having said that, a friend of mine is moving to Perth in October. > Perth? Is that part of Australia?... Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Accessible with your email software or over the web -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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David Mann wrote: One of my favourites was uttered by our late Prime Minister Robert Muldoon who was in office from 1975 to 1984. "Any NZer who moves to Australia raises the average IQ of both countries." Having said that, a friend of mine is moving to Perth in October. Cheers, Dave What if Aussies go to Canada? Dario -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Sep 8, 2011, at 3:12 PM, Brian Walters wrote: > Well, seeing as we've strayed from the Artist-on-Artist insults, one of > my favourite put downs was by then Australian Prime Minister Gough > Whitlam. One of my favourites was uttered by our late Prime Minister Robert Muldoon who was in office from 1975 to 1984. "Any NZer who moves to Australia raises the average IQ of both countries." Having said that, a friend of mine is moving to Perth in October. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On 7/9/11, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed: >On the track, I'm sure that you're a real tosser. Just thought I'd chip in here to stir a bit :) Filming corporate video tomorrow for one of my clients who are holding an annual conference with morning seminars. In the afternoon, the 60 odd delegates will get some track time, which we can film also. Track time? Yup - the venue is the Porsche Experience Centre at Silverstone, with the race circuit just feet away hosting a Le Mans series this weekend IIRC. The other cameraman and me will be having a go in either a Cayman or a Boxster :) I told him shiny side up please. Then three days of editing !! -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche -- http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On 9/7/2011 10:30 PM, John Francis wrote: On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 11:37:21PM -0400, Doug Franklin wrote: On 2011-09-07 22:39, Anthony Farr wrote: But they were much more powerful and faster in a straight line. Through the bendy bits they really were "mobile chicanes". Several run groups at your typical SCCA event will have that flavor, due to the classes that end up combined sometimes. I think the worst I've seen was a run group that included both GT1 monster horsepower cars and GT-Lites (or was it GT4 back then) which handled like roller skates but had zip for power compared to the GT1 cars. GT1s took off like scalded cats on the straights, and got caught up by the Lites in the twisty bits. Lap after lap after lap. Nothing new there. That's exactly the scenario that unfolded around 40 years ago, except in that case the powerhouses were Ford Galaxies, and the roller skates were Mini Coopers. Several years ago, when I built my spec miata, one of the local clubs had us in the same run group as the legends cars: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legends_car_racing On pavement, the Legends were running on spec tires, which were pretty much street tires. They have about 140 hp, and weigh 1,300 pounds with driver. The spec miatas were running on DOT legal race tires, which are stickier than the full on race slicks of up until not too many years ago, have a bit under 140 hp, and weigh 2,300 pounds with driver. Despite having nearly twice the acceleration, the legends would turn about the same lap times as the spec miatas. The end result being that the legends cars would go barreling down the straights like a scalded ape often passing one of a pair of miatas in a hot duel, then park it in the turns so that any miatas unlucky enough to be behind the legend would not only end up split up from the driver they were dicing with, but would then lose their "momentum", and lose even more speed on the next straight. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com (from dos4est) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 11:37:21PM -0400, Doug Franklin wrote: > On 2011-09-07 22:39, Anthony Farr wrote: > > >But > >they were much more powerful and faster in a straight line. Through > >the bendy bits they really were "mobile chicanes". > > Several run groups at your typical SCCA event will have that flavor, > due to the classes that end up combined sometimes. I think the > worst I've seen was a run group that included both GT1 monster > horsepower cars and GT-Lites (or was it GT4 back then) which handled > like roller skates but had zip for power compared to the GT1 cars. > GT1s took off like scalded cats on the straights, and got caught up > by the Lites in the twisty bits. Lap after lap after lap. Nothing new there. That's exactly the scenario that unfolded around 40 years ago, except in that case the powerhouses were Ford Galaxies, and the roller skates were Mini Coopers. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Sep 7, 2011, at 8:32 PM, Doug Franklin wrote: > On 2011-09-07 20:36, Larry Colen wrote: >> For the motorheads on the list, one of my favorite things to call a race car >> is "passable". > > "Passable" if it's someone else's car, "throwable" if it's mine. ;-) On the track, I'm sure that you're a real tosser. > -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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I watched a special on the great violin players. They hate the line, "wow, you must have a very good violin." Cheers, Christine On Sep 7, 2011, at 2:31 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote: > I still like "Oh, you must have a very good camera." > Regards, Bob S. > > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: >> They just don't insult anymore like these from the good old days ... >> >> Frederic Leighton on James McNeil Whistler: >> “My dear Whistler, you leave your pictures in such a sketchy, unfinished >> state. Why don’t you ever finish them?” >> >> James McNeil Whistler on Frederic Leighton: >> “My dear Leighton, why do you ever begin yours?” >> >> http://flavorwire.com/204165/artist-insults >> >> >> -bmw >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On 2011-09-07 22:39, Anthony Farr wrote: But they were much more powerful and faster in a straight line. Through the bendy bits they really were "mobile chicanes". Several run groups at your typical SCCA event will have that flavor, due to the classes that end up combined sometimes. I think the worst I've seen was a run group that included both GT1 monster horsepower cars and GT-Lites (or was it GT4 back then) which handled like roller skates but had zip for power compared to the GT1 cars. GT1s took off like scalded cats on the straights, and got caught up by the Lites in the twisty bits. Lap after lap after lap. -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On 2011-09-07 20:36, Larry Colen wrote: For the motorheads on the list, one of my favorite things to call a race car is "passable". "Passable" if it's someone else's car, "throwable" if it's mine. ;-) -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Sep 7, 2011, at 14:33 , Bob W wrote: >> The version of the story I heard had him using "sack of potatoes", but >> DaVinci probably wouldn't have been familiar with that New World food >> so "bag of walnuts" makes more sense. And, yes, he was right. >> >> Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia >> www.robertstech.com >> > > recent research into his childhood sketchbooks have proved that in fact > Leonardo da Vinci invented the potato. I guess he was going for otatop. Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com “ Nature is considerably more creative and inventive than humankind. Without Nature there isn't any humankind. Without humankind, Nature is fine.” -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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I love that one! On 8 September 2011 04:21, Bob W wrote: > another one I like, not painters, is a story about the conductor Thomas > Beecham during a rehearsal turned to the lady cellist and said "Madam, > between your legs you have something which can give pleasure to thousands, > but all you do is sit there and scratch it". > > B > >> -Original Message- >> From: Bob W [mailto:p...@web-options.com] >> Sent: 07 September 2011 20:48 >> To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' >> Subject: RE: OT The 30 Harshest Artist-on-Artist Insults In History >> >> One of the greatest art feuds was between Leonardo da Vinci and >> Michelangelo. Leonardo famously said that Michelangelo's anatomical >> pictures "look like a bag of walnuts". >> >> And I agree with him. >> >> B >> >> > >> > I still like "Oh, you must have a very good camera." >> > Regards, Bob S. >> > >> > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Bruce Walker >> > wrote: >> > > They just don't insult anymore like these from the good old days >> ... >> > > >> > > Frederic Leighton on James McNeil Whistler: >> > > "My dear Whistler, you leave your pictures in such a sketchy, >> > unfinished >> > > state. Why don't you ever finish them?" >> > > >> > > James McNeil Whistler on Frederic Leighton: >> > > "My dear Leighton, why do you ever begin yours?" >> > > >> > > http://flavorwire.com/204165/artist-insults >> > > >> > > >> > > -bmw >> > > >> > > >> > > -- >> > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> > > PDML@pdml.net >> > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above >> > and >> > > follow the directions. >> > > >> > >> > -- >> > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> > PDML@pdml.net >> > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above >> and >> > follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Wednesday, September 07, 2011 5:36 PM, "Larry Colen" wrote: > For the motorheads on the list, one of my favorite things to call a race > car is "passable". > Well, seeing as we've strayed from the Artist-on-Artist insults, one of my favourite put downs was by then Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. While campaigning, Whitlam came under relentless haranguing by one persistent woman repeatedly asking "But what about abortion Mister Whitlam? How do you stand on abortion?" When Whitlam had had enough of this, he turned to the woman and said: "In respect to abortion madam? Well, in your case I'd make it retrospective!" Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The way an email service should be -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On 8 September 2011 10:36, Larry Colen wrote: > For the motorheads on the list, one of my favorite things to call a race car > is "passable". > Calling a car or driver a "mobile chicane" is pretty damning, too. I first heard it directed at the F1 Ferraris sometime about 1980, when turbocharging and ground-effects were simultaneously emerging as performance enhancements. The turbo cars had more constricted airflow underneath because of the extra machinery, so their ground effects, thus their corner speed, weren't as good as unturbocharged cars. But they were much more powerful and faster in a straight line. Through the bendy bits they really were "mobile chicanes". regards, Anthony "Of what use is lens and light to those who lack in mind and sight" (Anon) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Two of my favourite ripostes come from the world of entertainment. Claire Booth Luce and Dorothy Parker approached a doorway together. Luce stepped back to let Parker go through first, saying, "Age before beauty." Parker sailed through the doorway replying, "Pearls before swine." Sir Lawrence Olivier watched with amusement as Dustin Hoffman summoned up all of his "Method", agonizingly getting into character for a dramatic scene on the set of "Marathon Man". At last he said, "Why don't you just act, dear boy?" But my favourite put down was was self administered. Michael Curtiz, while directing "The Charge of the Light Brigade, called for riderless horses to be let wander across the scene, saying, "Bring on the empty horses." Errol Flynn and David Niven cracked up laughing at his awkward English. Curtiz responded, "You people think I know f*** nothing, but I tell you, I know f***all!" regards, Anthony "Of what use is lens and light to those who lack in mind and sight" (Anon) On 8 September 2011 05:11, Bruce Walker wrote: > They just don't insult anymore like these from the good old days ... > > Frederic Leighton on James McNeil Whistler: > “My dear Whistler, you leave your pictures in such a sketchy, unfinished > state. Why don’t you ever finish them?” > > James McNeil Whistler on Frederic Leighton: > “My dear Leighton, why do you ever begin yours?” > > http://flavorwire.com/204165/artist-insults > > > -bmw > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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There's an excellent one from the 2005 PDML Quotations List: "For those who still think that the marketplace should determine what is good art, I have just two words: Andy Warhol." Bob Blakely http://www.robertstech.com/quot2005.htm -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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For the motorheads on the list, one of my favorite things to call a race car is "passable". -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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#7 is great -- “I wouldn’t have noticed it except that it was so big.” But that one is good too, Bob. Heh. Marnie the almost akaless :-) A lot of those quotes were from Dali, which is no surprise really since he made his personality as famous as his paintings. Dripping (sarcasm) or surrealism. Whichever. - In a message dated 9/7/2011 12:31:16 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, rf.sulli...@gmail.com writes: I still like "Oh, you must have a very good camera." Regards, Bob S. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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I guess I'm officially de-lurking... A long time personal fave of mine - between Cornelia Otis Skinner and G.B.S... I don't think Shaw said "greatest" I cribbed this from the web.. but you get the idea. in the following exchange of telegrams after a revival of Candida. Shaw: Excellent. Greatest. ["Brilliant" is my recollection] Skinner: Undeserving such praise. Shaw: I meant the play. Skinner: So did I. ann On 9/7/2011 18:19, Keith Whaley wrote: Bob W wrote: another one I like, not painters, is a story about the conductor Thomas Beecham during a rehearsal turned to the lady cellist and said "Madam, between your legs you have something which can give pleasure to thousands, but all you do is sit there and scratch it". B How long did he live after THAT comment? keith -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Bob W wrote: another one I like, not painters, is a story about the conductor Thomas Beecham during a rehearsal turned to the lady cellist and said "Madam, between your legs you have something which can give pleasure to thousands, but all you do is sit there and scratch it". B How long did he live after THAT comment? keith -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Bob W wrote: >> Bob W wrote: >> >> >One of the greatest art feuds was between Leonardo da Vinci and >> >Michelangelo. Leonardo famously said that Michelangelo's anatomical >> >pictures "look like a bag of walnuts". >> > >> >And I agree with him. >> >> The version of the story I heard had him using "sack of potatoes", but >> DaVinci probably wouldn't have been familiar with that New World food >> so "bag of walnuts" makes more sense. And, yes, he was right. > >recent research into his childhood sketchbooks have proved that in fact >Leonardo da Vinci invented the potato. After years of trying to make chips from walnuts. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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> Bob W wrote: > > >One of the greatest art feuds was between Leonardo da Vinci and > >Michelangelo. Leonardo famously said that Michelangelo's anatomical > pictures > >"look like a bag of walnuts". > > > >And I agree with him. > > The version of the story I heard had him using "sack of potatoes", but > DaVinci probably wouldn't have been familiar with that New World food > so "bag of walnuts" makes more sense. And, yes, he was right. > > Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia > www.robertstech.com > recent research into his childhood sketchbooks have proved that in fact Leonardo da Vinci invented the potato. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Bob W wrote: >One of the greatest art feuds was between Leonardo da Vinci and >Michelangelo. Leonardo famously said that Michelangelo's anatomical pictures >"look like a bag of walnuts". > >And I agree with him. The version of the story I heard had him using "sack of potatoes", but DaVinci probably wouldn't have been familiar with that New World food so "bag of walnuts" makes more sense. And, yes, he was right. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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another one I like, not painters, is a story about the conductor Thomas Beecham during a rehearsal turned to the lady cellist and said "Madam, between your legs you have something which can give pleasure to thousands, but all you do is sit there and scratch it". B > -Original Message- > From: Bob W [mailto:p...@web-options.com] > Sent: 07 September 2011 20:48 > To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' > Subject: RE: OT The 30 Harshest Artist-on-Artist Insults In History > > One of the greatest art feuds was between Leonardo da Vinci and > Michelangelo. Leonardo famously said that Michelangelo's anatomical > pictures "look like a bag of walnuts". > > And I agree with him. > > B > > > > > I still like "Oh, you must have a very good camera." > > Regards, Bob S. > > > > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Bruce Walker > > wrote: > > > They just don't insult anymore like these from the good old days > ... > > > > > > Frederic Leighton on James McNeil Whistler: > > > "My dear Whistler, you leave your pictures in such a sketchy, > > unfinished > > > state. Why don't you ever finish them?" > > > > > > James McNeil Whistler on Frederic Leighton: > > > "My dear Leighton, why do you ever begin yours?" > > > > > > http://flavorwire.com/204165/artist-insults > > > > > > > > > -bmw > > > > > > > > > -- > > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > > PDML@pdml.net > > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > > and > > > follow the directions. > > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > PDML@pdml.net > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > and > > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 03:11:24PM -0400, Bruce Walker wrote: > They just don't insult anymore like these from the good old days ... > > Frederic Leighton on James McNeil Whistler: > ?My dear Whistler, you leave your pictures in such a sketchy, > unfinished state. Why don?t you ever finish them?? > > James McNeil Whistler on Frederic Leighton: > ?My dear Leighton, why do you ever begin yours?? This is why Whistler is one of the group of artists, etc., in the Monty Python skit (Whistler, Shaw, Wilde & HRH). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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One of the greatest art feuds was between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. Leonardo famously said that Michelangelo's anatomical pictures "look like a bag of walnuts". And I agree with him. B > > I still like "Oh, you must have a very good camera." > Regards, Bob S. > > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Bruce Walker > wrote: > > They just don't insult anymore like these from the good old days ... > > > > Frederic Leighton on James McNeil Whistler: > > "My dear Whistler, you leave your pictures in such a sketchy, > unfinished > > state. Why don't you ever finish them?" > > > > James McNeil Whistler on Frederic Leighton: > > "My dear Leighton, why do you ever begin yours?" > > > > http://flavorwire.com/204165/artist-insults > > > > > > -bmw > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > PDML@pdml.net > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > and > > follow the directions. > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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I still like "Oh, you must have a very good camera." Regards, Bob S. On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: > They just don't insult anymore like these from the good old days ... > > Frederic Leighton on James McNeil Whistler: > “My dear Whistler, you leave your pictures in such a sketchy, unfinished > state. Why don’t you ever finish them?” > > James McNeil Whistler on Frederic Leighton: > “My dear Leighton, why do you ever begin yours?” > > http://flavorwire.com/204165/artist-insults > > > -bmw > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
