Re: *istD Pricing news

2004-02-02 Thread mapson
At 03:46 PM 2/02/2004 +1100, you wrote: Hi Ryan,If you go to CRKennedy's website www.crkennedy.com.au and goto the index at their home page,they guarantee to match any legitimate web quote.So if you get a quote from Adorama,i,e, the final amount shown on the checkout list.download it and forward

Re: more *ist D pricing news...

2004-02-02 Thread mapson
I purchased from both BH and Adorama. Painful experience, as the overseas transaction shocked them (not a standard shipment to Colorado Aarg! Panic! What are we going to do???) ;-) All e-mail correspondence very short. Sometimes I had to break it up into parts, so the laconic answers

Re: more *ist D pricing news...

2004-02-02 Thread mapson
Are you honestly telling me that 600$CDN = ~ 450$USD is worth a scrappy little paper saying warranty? We have (officially) purchased thousands of dollars of Pentax equipment from the US, as it worked out cheaper than buing in Australia. We saved at least 40% on photo gear and about 50% on

Re: * ist Digital Question

2004-02-03 Thread mapson
At 11:29 PM 3/02/2004 +1000, you wrote: This is too funny to me - in Australia, what we refer to as a fanny is in fact only found only on a lady and is the FRONT rather than the BACK of them, iykwim? We here, call what you are referring to, a BUM! lol AND rather than fanny pack, it is a bum

Re: I got an *ist (film)

2004-02-03 Thread mapson
Dude seems to be a hip word amongst teenagers these days. As I work with them I know how dude-y the conversation can get. I even heard them refer to Casper as that ghost dude - it was most comical! Robert from the dork-land, just 2000km south of Tanya tan. (who is going to ENABLE herself

Re: Upside Downness - was Re: * ist Digital Question

2004-02-04 Thread mapson
At 12:30 PM 4/02/2004 +1000, you wrote: No, no, no, Tom, this group has been advised before that Oz is not upside down at all. We are the only continent the right way up, and we can show you a map to prove it! John Coyle Brisbane, Australia And it'a a prawn, not a shrimp we can ride in the

Re: I got an *ist (film)

2004-02-04 Thread mapson
At 05:54 PM 4/02/2004 +1000, you wrote: Yes, my step-son's partner calls _me_ Dude too! And 2 more pieces of dude-trivia some of my students last year claimed that DUDE means camel's penis (even though I failed to find any linguistic confirmation of it) some time ago there was a song called

Re: Upside Downness - was Re: * ist Digital Question

2004-02-04 Thread mapson
At 07:46 AM 4/02/2004 -0500, you wrote: We are the only island continent ...except for Antarctica, perhaps? Covered in snow - doesn't count! ;-) Fred (*)o(*) Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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