I think it takes something a lot more powerful than weed to get where Bob is...
David Savage wrote: > LOL > > Time to ease up on the weed mate. > > Cheers, > > Dave > > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 1:06 AM, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Bad luck. Good shot. >> >> I remember the good old days. When people had LXs the stories went >> something like this: >> >> I was on top of the Matterhorn and saw an eagle coming towards me with >> a lamb in its talons, so I reached for the LX. Unfortunately, because >> of the ice, it slipped from my fingers and bounced down the mountain >> into a waterfall. From there it was carried to the ocean where it >> became engulfed in the largest oil spill the world has ever known. So >> I fished it out and put it in a bucket of water on the roof of my car. >> Carelessly, when I set off I had forgotten about the LX in the bucket >> and it was only after I had driven several miles when, swerving to >> avoid a column of tanks, the LX fell off the roof onto the concrete >> road surface. Only 10 of the tanks drove directly over it, so I >> suppose I was a bit lucky there, but unfortunately one of them pushed >> it so far into the ground that it set off a small thermonuclear >> landmine which had been left there since the Cold War. But the blast >> was entirely upward, so after the LX had gone through the jets of a >> passing fighter plane it fell to the ground and, to my amazement, >> landed in my picnic basket and squashed a grape. >> >> Anyway, I checked it over and there were a couple of marks on the >> viewfinder, but otherwise it was ok. The film was a bit buckled >> though, probably from the heat of the landmine. >> >> Bob >> >> >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> > Behalf Of DagT >> > Sent: 17 April 2008 16:44 >> > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> > Subject: Catastrophy and good news... >> > >> >> >> >>> What a week. >>> >> > >> > Two days ago I was in a hurry, so I pulled my bag out of the car too >> >> > fast to notice that it was uside down. So my K10D with >> > DA*16-50 didn´t >> > just fall out, it bounced along the sidewalk. After the fall >> > the zoom >> > was almost broken in two and the viewfinder was crushed. So >> > I sent a >> > mail to Pentax and told them about it. I also checked the insurance >> >> > and found that only the K10D had a proper insurance. >> > >> > Yesterday I visited Pentax and they had found a K20D with a new >> > DA*16-50 for me. Great guys! >> > >> > Yesterday I also got a mail from the Nordic Light festival >> > http://www.nle.no >> > which I´m going to visit in the beginning of May. They had >> > accepted >> > one of my photos for an exhibition with the theme "Truth" and they >> > wanted print it in 40x40cm. Some have seen another version of >> > it, but >> > the accepted version is here: >> http://foto.no/bilder/images/v_78122.jpg >> > >> > Today I got the message that there is no hope for the broken camera >> >> > and lens.... >> > >> > So I´m a little happy because K20D seems to be a nice camera >> > and the it >> > ´s great to have a picture at the exhibition, but my wallet >> > is not as >> > happy. Luckily, I have a patient wife .-) >> > >> > DagT >> > > -- Vote for Cthulhu. Why settle for a lesser evil... -- Dr. Jerry Pournelle -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
