Re: Use of the word 'classic'.

2004-10-22 Thread Keith Whaley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you see yourself saying 'I'd the Largest Mocha Frap, please' and still say yes when they ask 'With cream?' :-) Cheers, Ryan As I don't hang around Starbucks often enough to remember their oddball names, I generally tell them "your smallest size" and they say "Tall!"

Re: Use of the word 'classic'.

2004-10-22 Thread Keith Whaley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Alling posted: Starbucks uses that for marketing, Starbucks The rest of the World TALL== Small GRANDE == Medium VENTE(SP?) == Large or else Starbucks only sells one size since they all more or less

Re: Use of the word 'classic'.

2004-10-21 Thread ernreed2
- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 7:38 AM > Subject: Re: Use of the word 'classic'. > > > > > What, I wonder, is wrong with a simple: > > Large > > Larger > > Largest > > > > ? > > > > ERN > > > > > > > >

Re: Use of the word 'classic'.

2004-10-21 Thread ernreed2
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Peter Alling posted: > > > >>Starbucks uses that for marketing, > >> > >>Starbucks The rest of the World > >> TALL== Small > >> GRANDE == Medium > >> VENTE(SP?) == Large > >> > >>or else Sta

Re: Use of the word 'classic'.

2004-10-21 Thread frank theriault
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 08:19:03 +1000, Ryan Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you see yourself saying 'I'd the Largest Mocha Frap, please' and still > say yes when they ask 'With cream?' :-) > Well, that's why I like my favourite espresso bar, Toronto's Jet Fuel. Lattes, mochas and the like, com

Re: Use of the word 'classic'.

2004-10-21 Thread Ryan Lee
Can you see yourself saying 'I'd the Largest Mocha Frap, please' and still say yes when they ask 'With cream?' :-) Cheers, Ryan - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 7:38 AM Subject: Re:

Re: Use of the word 'classic'.

2004-10-21 Thread Cotty
On 21/10/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED], discombobulated, unleashed: >What, I wonder, is wrong with a simple: >Large >Larger >Largest > >? > >ERN and also: 'Just a tad larger than the largest Medium but not quite as large as the smallest Large' Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Plac

Re: Use of the word 'classic'.

2004-10-21 Thread Keith Whaley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Alling posted: Starbucks uses that for marketing, Starbucks The rest of the World TALL== Small GRANDE == Medium VENTE(SP?) == Large or else Starbucks only sells one size since they all more or less

Re: Use of the word 'classic'.

2004-10-21 Thread ernreed2
Peter Alling posted: > Starbucks uses that for marketing, > > Starbucks The rest of the World >TALL== Small > GRANDE == Medium > VENTE(SP?) == Large > > or else Starbucks only sells one size since they all more or less > tra

Re: Use of the word 'classic'.

2004-10-21 Thread Toralf Lund
Keith Whaley wrote: Words don't have much meaning any more, do they? It falls in line with an increasing lack of respect by those in the first 1/3 of their allotted life span. Superlatives have long since attained mediocrity status. Little or no need for the word anymore, in fact! When one has a

Re: Use of the word 'classic'.

2004-10-21 Thread Peter J. Alling
Starbucks uses that for marketing, Starbucks The rest of the World TALL== Small GRANDE == Medium VENTE(SP?) == Large or else Starbucks only sells one size since they all more or less translate into large. Bob W wrote: Hi, When

Re: Use of the word 'classic'.

2004-10-21 Thread Bob W
Hi, > When one has a group of 4 increasing larger, let's say coffee, > containers and the smallest of the group is called "Giant," well, all > comparison is lost, isn't it. A good way to market condoms, perhaps. As for coffee, the smallest (or perhaps I should say 'least large') servings are gia

Re: Use of the word 'classic'.

2004-10-21 Thread John Whittingham
so let's see Pentax Spotmatic, K2, KX, MX, LX, Nikon FM*etc. John -- Original Message --- From: Keith Whaley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:26:33 -0700 Subject: Re: Use of the word 'classic'. > Words don'

RE: Use of the word 'classic'.

2004-10-21 Thread Malcolm Smith
Keith Whaley wrote: > Words don't have much meaning any more, do they? It falls in > line with an increasing lack of respect by those in the first > 1/3 of their allotted life span. > Superlatives have long since attained mediocrity status. > Little or no need for the word anymore, in fact! > W

Re: Use of the word 'classic'.

2004-10-21 Thread Keith Whaley
Words don't have much meaning any more, do they? It falls in line with an increasing lack of respect by those in the first 1/3 of their allotted life span. Superlatives have long since attained mediocrity status. Little or no need for the word anymore, in fact! When one has a group of 4 increasi

Re: Use of the word 'classic'.

2004-10-21 Thread Peter J. Alling
Welcome to the wonderful world of digital electronics. Malcolm Smith wrote: When I think of the word 'classic' in connection with cameras, I immediately think of anything M42 or perhaps K2s & other early bayonette fitting equipment. I was quite surprised in the 16.10.04 edition of Amateur Photograp

Re: Use of the word 'classic'.

2004-10-21 Thread Graywolf
Well, in the car world there are: Special Interest Cars --fairly new but are interesting, Classic Cars --20+ years old, Veteran Cars --30+, & Vintage Cars --40+ Or at least those were the ages specified back in the 50's when that meant classics were from the 30's, Veterans the 20's, and Vintage th

Re: Use of the word 'classic'.

2004-10-21 Thread Joseph Tainter
It is a much debased term today -- an in "the first annual Bulwer-Lytton/William Robb photographic cliché classic." I didn't run the contest for this year's cliché PUG, so perhaps that makes it an emeritus classic. Joe

Re: Use of the word 'classic'.

2004-10-21 Thread Jack Davis
To me "classic" has always implied the presence of either a significant or enduring innovation or the initial component introduction. A word blasphemed as a selling tool. --- Bob Blakely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Things used to last, to be a sense of joy and pride > for many years as our > po

Re: Use of the word 'classic'.

2004-10-21 Thread Bob Blakely
Things used to last, to be a sense of joy and pride for many years as our possessions became "classics". Digital equipment has changed all the rules. Once upon a time, we might have said, "This is 70's era equipment!" or "Those Speed Graphics were used by the great photo journalists of the '40's."

Re: Use of the word 'classic'.

2004-10-21 Thread Toralf Lund
Don't know about the formal definition, but some advertising lines certainly are instant classics ;-). I'm still recovering from the "Official digital camera of the Internet" slogan in that other thread (and, in fact, wonder whether Al Gore approved of that statement - given he's the Inventor

Re: Use of the word 'classic'.

2004-10-21 Thread The Diabolical Dr Z
Don't know about the formal definition, but some advertising lines certainly are instant classics ;-). I'm still recovering from the "Official digital camera of the Internet" slogan in that other thread (and, in fact, wonder whether Al Gore approved of that statement - given he's the Inventor

Re: Use of the word 'classic'.

2004-10-21 Thread John Whittingham
I thought it generally assumed (no rule) that a 'Classic' was 25 yrs+, as an example the MX would be a classic. Or am I thinking of 'Vintage'? John -- Original Message --- From: "Malcolm Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:33:25 +0100 Su