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Subject: RE: [OM] Misc OM stuff - FREE
From: andrew fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 18:32:57 +1000
Er Oben
I know you'd like to keep one with each of your fifty bodies but - wanna
trade for a couple (like, er, y'know, Oz first and all that :)
AndrewF
ps. 87 is an unlucky number for Oz cricketers - you must reduce the number
immediately!


>I always used to think I was lucky, but this is beyond luck.
>
>I went into a camera store in Albury (a country town) responding to their
>ad for a used 55mm f1.2 in mint condition. The lens turned out to have
>fungus in it and I thought what a waste of time it had been (a 300 km
>drive). I asked if he had an Olympus junk bin somewhere and he said "Yes
>but it doesn't have anything special in it..."
>
>I said I may as well have a look. I was rummaging through the old lens
>hoods and cases. My heart almost stopped when I found a bagful of old
>bayonet style MD caps!! It looked like a bag full of small coins! It was
>loaded. I asked the guy how much for these. He said "hmmm it will be too
>much hassle hand writing a receipt. You've driven out 300k's, take them,
>they're yours."
>
>I walked out of the shop calmly with the bag in hand. My heart was racing.
>I tipped out the contents and counted them. 87 bayonet style MD caps!! 23
>black the rest in chrome....
>To be continued....
>Dr. Oben O. Candemir MBBS Syd Uni.



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