good one
John Hermanson
Camtech Photo Services, Inc.
21 South Lane, Huntington, NY 11743
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Factory Trained OM Service since 1977
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Earl Dunbar" <edunbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 9:04 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: An English apology !
>
> ROTFLMAO!!!!
>
> Are you implying that Fox viewers can distinguish letters, much less
> "read"?
>
> Earl, Let's not Bolt-on another idiot to the U.N.
>
> Walt Wayman wrote:
>
>>Oh, I understand. At least a couple of times a day I have to resist the
>>urge to e-mail the Republican Network (a.k.a Fox) or CNN about some of the
>>atrocious mistakes in their annoying "crawlers" across the bottom of the
>>screen. There seems to be employment opportunities for high-school
>>dropouts at both networks. Of course, the folks who watch Fox probably
>>don't notice.
>>
>>See the smiley! :-) "Smiley" rhymes with "O'Reilly." Oh, really?
>>Factor that in.
>>
>>Walt
>>
>>--
>>"Anything more than 500 yards from
>>the car just isn't photogenic." --
>>Edward Weston
>>
>> -------------- Original message ----------------------
>>From: "Jon Mitchell" <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>
>>>Hi Everyone,
>>>
>>>Well, sorry. Seems I might have started something here ! I could sense
>>>it beginning to get a bit out of control when I turned in last night,
>>>and I just logged in again to find that this one has grown legs of the
>>>type Linford Christie would be proud !! Anyway, my apologies to the
>>>list for starting a bit of an OT one. If anyone was offended then my
>>>sincerest apologies to you. Particularly Michael Collins - I didn't see
>>>a smiley, as you say, but I did sense the humour in your reply anyway
>>>and tried to reply in similar fashion.
>>>
>>>This list is a multi-national one and, as such, many of the members do
>>>not have English as their first language. My moan was in no way aimed
>>>at you guys - it was meant for the people who claim English as their
>>>first language and yet use such poor examples of it in such a very
>>>public place, and who really should know better (or shouldn't be
>>>employed in that job). Would you employ someone with no knowledge or
>>>dexterity with cameras to give your precious OM's a CLA ? Neither would
>>>I. Similarly the BBC shouldn't employ people with a poor grasp of the
>>>English Language to write or type their on-screen messages !
>>>
>>>Anyway, sorry. I felt the need for a moan yesterday, and feel much
>>>better for it ! Normal service will resume shortly (ie: I'll shut up
>>>!)
>>>
>>>Jon
>>>
>>>
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