Tony Rowlett Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 OK, I admit. Part of Leica Photography is the practice of fondling. So what? I do this with guns, cameras, and guitars. Can't shoot for a shit, can't play a song, and I can't take a picture worth hill of beans. Yet I still have a lot of fun. It's only money. So what? Backups? We don’t need no stinking ba #.’ _ , J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen_w. Posted July 17, 2003 Author Share Posted July 17, 2003 Yeah Tony, I wish my SIG P-210 had an adjustable rear site. Can't adjust if you don't hit the paper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al_kaplan1 Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 My cell phone tells me the time, changes when I enter a new time zone or daylight savings time arrives or departs, and I carry it anyway. I'm waiting for a genuine Leica camera phone to hit the market! (with a fully mechanical Rolex movement) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glenn_warren Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 Not guilty. I own neither a watch or a car and use whatever pens my fiancee gets given free by drug reps at work. I use Leica & Contax cameras 'cause they're built to last, servicable & hold their value in the long term. My M6 TTL bought new last year will probably outlast me or film (which ever dies 1st), and will become a family heirloom to be passed onto grandchildren. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_________1 Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 I have a Polex, bought in the night markets of Bangkok, Thailand. Yeah, it started life as a Rolex but its leg dropped off. My other camera is a Voigtlander made in Japan, and a Lieca made in the ex-CCCP. Besides, didn't Mama warn you that wanking made you blind? Gazooks. Oh, Leica Forum. We're all blind one way or another, anyway. What's an 'Eccletic', Jay? Is it a new religion where acolytes flagellate themselves with straps made only in Solms or better yet, an OB original made in Wetzlar, soaked with the sweat of German elves? Guess that makes you an ecletic ascetic. Or make that an ascetic ecletic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_________1 Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 DR Scholl's Footpowder tastes PLFFFFP! It is spelled ECLECTIC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ray . Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 I don't have a watch. Can somebody tell me what day it is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grant_. Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 its time to get a life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dennis_couvillion Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 I got a great deal on a Rolex in New York. A guy in Battery Park sold me one for $30!! I went back the next day to get the box and papers for it like he said, but he wasn't there. God, I hope nothing bad happened to him. ;>) Dennis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shambrick007 Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 �I have a Polex, bought in the night markets of Bangkok, Thailand.�<p>Those Thai Fau-Lexes are the best aren�t they!??!?! Not like the cheese quartz movement ones you pick up in Hong Kong. I belive my gold �Submariner� from Kao San Road still works after 7 years! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen_w. Posted July 17, 2003 Author Share Posted July 17, 2003 My Submariner still works after 24 years. Worn playing baseball, basketball, football, swimming, sauna, racketball, biking, skiing, and it's never failed me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_________1 Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 Steve, you mean you've done everything except DIVED with it? Isn't that like going everywhere with your Leica except take pictures with it? Oh, I forget. That is what most people really do :p Mea culpa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay_. Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 My Submariner which I wear daily, has broken its mainspring 3 times, at $225 a pop for service, since I got it new in 1990. My 2-tone Oyster which I bought new in 1986 but wear maybe twice a month, has been serviced 3 times, finally broke the original mainspring last month. A gold 1959 Omega Seamaster DeVille automatic dress watch I inherited from my father has been serviced exactly once, w. new mainspring, about a year ago. And I've had one of the original Seiko LCD watches (looks like a Dick Tracy Wrist Radio)since 1978 and it still keeps perfect time having had nothing more than about 4 batteries. So Rolexes are a *lot* like Leicas, Omegas are like Nikon F's and Seiko's are not like any camera I can think of ;>) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen_w. Posted July 17, 2003 Author Share Posted July 17, 2003 Jay, If you weren't so tightly wound up your watches would last longer. Is it coincidence, or what? <8*)> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob haight Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 Now where did I leave the keys to my Porsche? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobtodrick Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 Odd that you have these stories for everything you own Jay...got's to wonder what you're doing wrong, or why you're embellishing...or you must just have the worlds worst luck. My Rolex bought new in 1974 for $450.00 (CND) can fetch me easily $1000 bucks now. This after wearing it every single day since, with two cleanings and a couple of crystals. But it is showing its age...after 29 years it's losing about a minute a month. Another reason why some pay for the good stuff. A couple of years ago my wife dropped one of my Watermans on the floor and bent the nib. Sent it to Waterman to see if it could be fixed. They sent it back within the month, with a NEW nib (which is gold) for FREE. This, bye-the-way was a pen I'd owned for nearly 20 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen_w. Posted July 17, 2003 Author Share Posted July 17, 2003 No, haven't dived yet; did snorkle at St. Croix about ten years ago, though. I'm not certified, just certifiable (sp?). <8*)> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen Herbert Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 I wondered where the bogs were on this forum. This is where you hang out for ciggy break... away from the righteous. All i care about is if my plonker will work until i'm at least 60. Perhaps some of you older guys can advise. Alternatively, will I need to apply Spiratone Cream? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
will_perlis Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 This just out. As Martha would say, "Wanking and Fondling are good things". Keep at it. "Masturbating Lowers Prostate Cancer Risk - Study Wed July 16, 2003 01:59 PM ET LONDON (Reuters) - Frequent masturbation, particularly in the 20s, helps prevent prostate cancer later in life, according to new research. Australian scientists have shown that the more men masturbate between the ages of 20 and 50, the less likely they are to develop the disease that kills more than half a million men each year." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noddy_b Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 I thought members of Leica forum are mature male adults!!!!! My preconception was totally wrong! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen_w. Posted July 17, 2003 Author Share Posted July 17, 2003 Sabai Dee Mach Mah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roland_schmid Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 Owning a Rolex proves only that the owner has a very bad taste. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noddy_b Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 Steve...so you have been to Thailand! ------ I got my R6.2 chrome for my wedding from my wife. I have successfully persuaded her that a mechanical Leica will last a lifetime, and I will hang it around my neck (better than a ring on my finger), and it is more useful than a ring because I can take photos with it! And my wife still thought that my new Black Paint MP is the same camera as my M6! If she knows that I bought a new camera, she will get real mad.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen Herbert Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 Frequent masturbation, particularly in the 20s, helps prevent prostate cancer later in life, according to new research. Hey, we're all goanna be around for a long time. I just love Aussies' Just shows you a bunch of impoverished crime ridden no gooders can make something of themselves. That was what the British Empire was about, opportunity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen_w. Posted July 17, 2003 Author Share Posted July 17, 2003 Chi, Noddy, I spent over a year (two separate occasions) in your lovely/photogenic country, on two jobs near Rayong. Other than the heat, I wouldn't change a thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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