Mark, this is priceless! Thanks so much! Regards Jens Bladt Nytarkort / Greeting Card: http://www.jensbladt.dk/godtnytaar2007/godtnytaarshow.html
http://www.jensbladt.dk +45 56 63 77 11 +45 23 43 85 77 Skype: jensbladt248 -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] vegne af Mark Roberts Sendt: 1. januar 2007 22:03 Til: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Emne: 2006 PDML quotations list: Part 1 The server doesn't allow posts of over 10k is size and, this being a particularly prolific year for our local fonts of wisdom, I was faced with a choice: Either edit the list down or break it up into two posts. Being loathe to remove any of these deserving gems (ahem), I selected the latter option. Also, it's less work than reading through everything again and deciding what to leave in and what to leave out. Oh yeah, there was a third option: Get the listmeister to put this post through manually. But I haven't heard anything from Doug yet and I'm sure no one wants me to postpone this any more. So here they are, in no particular order (for the most part): ------2006 PDML quotations list: Part 1------ "Well, the first thing we need to do is panic." - Doug Brewer "Battery is charging! Rejoice, rejoice!" - Ken Takeshita "I'm pretty close to Cotty's height when I have my ears on." - Frank Theriault "Now, let me tell you how flawed you are..." - Norm Baugher "My glasses are clean but my mind isn't." - Annsan "Personally, I think a gorilla should cost a lot more than 800 pounds, but that's eBay for you." - Bob Walkden "Have you considered the joys of snakeskin?" - Frank Theriault "I *do* know a Hippo's bum when I see one." - Mike Wilson "Photography isn't necessarily about making an exact 2 dimensional duplicate of what was in front of the camera." - Bill Robb "I was too excited to read the fine print" - Cory Papenfuss "The amusing flame wars here are well worth pressing a little green button every now and then." - Juan Buhler "I'm not a fondler. I'm a photographer." - Paul Stenquist "MARNIE CLEAN OUT YOUR MAILBOX!" - Traditional "Was your dog in danger when you bought the DS?" - Shel Belinkoff "The (aperture simulator is) now a vestige of the evolution of this mount. Pretty much like the human appendix, it's there and can sometimes cause inflammation (like the aperture simulator periodically does on this list). - Gonz "A great lens feel is nice, but a superb rendering is better." - Paul Stenquist "Complicated cameras are often made for people who believe they can buy 'skills' they don't have themselves :-)" - Jens Bladt "It's Santa photos fer Gawds sake, it ain't high art." - Bill Robb "Killfiles work miracles, not wimps" - Kostas Kavoussanakis "Maybe phones don't take great pix, but Holgas make worse phones." - Frank Theriault "Gawd, will I be happy to not have to type those asterisks*****." - Paul Stenquist "The more you know, the better your results." - Shel Belinkoff "I think I'll check to see if I've used up this year's quota of commas." - Doug Brewer "That's what happens when you write an English posting while you're sitting in Germany and listening to French radio." - Ralf R. Radermacher "An axiom is that no matter how well a digital camera performs, people will complain about noise. Corollary to that axiom is the fact that all digital cameras do have noise." - Godfrey DiGiorgi "You can define things any way you like. This doesn't imply that your definition is correct." - Bill Robb "It's sometimes quite handy to have a second-grader around the house." - Doug Brewer "I'm skimming all of these posts and still have no idea what the hell an aperture simulator is. I guess it can't be too important if I never knew I needed it." - "J and K Messervy" Adam Maas: "I'm just wondering what the heck Ingorant means" Mark Roberts: "It's a large black seabird related to the cormorant." Paul Stenquist: "Tell me, Bill. How do you always manage to say what the rest of us are thinking?" Bill Robb: "Tourette Syndrome." "I feel so...dirty." - D. Glenn Arthur (Re: Purchasing a *digital* SLR) "You have a French name. That makes you a gourmet." - Bob Walkden "Is it just me, or does it seem like a bad idea to make a decision on a camera system based on a single consumer-zoom lens?" - Mat Maessen "Canon aren't exactly going broke making some of the worst entry-level DSLRs available, and selling them by the truckload to people who don't know any better." - John Francis "I have a lot of opinions. Some of them *must* be wrong." - Rich Tietjens (A friend who's not on PDML but deserves to be quoted anyway) "I found the LA water to be awful, but then I was drinking it straight up." - Shel Belinkoff "It's a good thing that Pentax doesn't offer new flagship cameras too often. This way even I can - kinda - keep up!" - Jens Bladt "My interpretation is typographically correct, although perhaps unduly optimistic" - Bertil Holmberg "You're not kicking me when I'm down, you're just kicking me." - Frank Theriault "I once saw Frans Lanting in Mike's eyebrows." - Bob Walkden "No camera I've owned has been perfect." - Godfrey DiGiorgi "Complaints about problems which exist only in speculation is really stupid." - Godfrey DiGiorgi "My istD used to take 6MP photos in 2004. Now it is down to 1600x1200, and that's only when I shoot cats and flowers. Also, it takes Canon lenses now. I better upgrade before it gets even worse." - Juan Buhler "I've never camped alone before as a woman, or as a man either :-)" - Marnie aka Doe "Having more than one lens enables you to have the wrong lens mounted at any given time." - Doug Brewer "He looks like his emails." - Annsan (Don't remember who she was writing about, but does it really matter?) "My favourite photographic accessory for shooting aggressive and lethal wild animals is a helicopter. - John Forbes "It has the flare resistance of a 1970's Led Zeppelin groupie." - Mike Wilson (though which third-party lens he was referring to is long forgotten...) "It's a DATA POINT, for Pete's sake, not something chiseled in granite!" - Keith W "Specifications are cheap to produce." - Bill Robb "And naturally, if you are going to quote someone, better me than Cotty." - Marnie aka Doe "I tend to eschew the whole street photography thing in the same way I eschew jazz music. I don't get it, and I don't really feel the need to, either." - Bill Robb "Right now Magic Hour is about 8:30 to 9:30 in Yorkshire. I am told there's another one in the morning, but so long as there is a Snooze button, I have no chance of ever seeing it." - Jim Kerslake "Why would I want a new lens? My digicam has a 12X digital zoom on it AND it records video!" - Russell Kerstetter "Exposure is much more than a reading from a meter. It's an intelligent decision that the photographer must be prepared to make." - Paul Stenquist "Why would I take photos of people when I already know what they look like?" - Amita Guha "Wives are allowed to arrange furniture, but they are never permitted to have any control over the purchase, placement or operation of high-tech toys." - Paul Stenquist "Maybe that's what the fellow on eBay was talking about, but more likely he just doesn't know what he is talking about." - Bob Shell -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.16.1/611 - Release Date: 12/31/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. 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