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Cold, hard reality sets in...

Started Jul 9, 2001 | Discussions thread
OP Wayne DeWitt Senior Member • Posts: 1,259
Re: Cold, hard reality sets in...

I become very amused also over the self-righteous indignation expressed by persons when a piece of plastic or metal is slandered (or even better, those who stoop to slander inanimate objects). It is just a camera after all. Unfortunately for me once I begin using it I will undoubtedly leave it in proximity of some of my other, more highly thought of gear, hope no one (no thing?) is offended by the company.

I hope you were spared the thread in which some poor soul insisted
that the way the camera looks actually affects the quality of the
pictures taken with it. It was a gen-you-wine milestone in the
annals of rocket science, that message. I arranged to have every
precious word of it chiseled in stone, and now it's sitting bolt
upright in our living room. People come from miles around to be
healed by it. Out of the goodness of my heart, I do not charge
admission. But I should.

I missed that, unfortunately. Since arriving here two or three weeks ago I have been amply rewarded by many amusing statements, so I have not felt myself to have been depived in any way. I'll kill some more time here tormenting the poor tortured souls who have staked so much of their existance on this unworthy piece of plastic. Kind of reminds me of adolescent boys wrapping their manhoods around fuel-injected V8's. I think that I too shall erect a memorial. Mine will be inscribed with the following:" All idols have baseplates of epoxy-filled resin". On second thought maybe I'll work on it a little.

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