Cursing a blue streak...

JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
> "BAR" <ScrewYou.DeleteThis@Your.Place> wrote in message
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>> Tim wrote:
>>> On Mar 11, 6:58 am, Short Wave Sportfishing <em....DeleteThis@swsportsremove.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Went out side for the morning cigar and saw two huge Fisher Cats
>>>> squaring off at the tree line - very unusual - probably males as they
>>>> were easily in the 12/15 pound range.
>>>>
>>>> Ran inside to get my new E-3 - dropped it off the deck right onto the
>>>> concrete patio.
>>>>
>>>> Words I didn't even know I knew rang out over the land.
>>>>
>>>> Even worse - I left it lying there and ran back inside to get the
>>>> movie camera.
>>>>
>>>> Battery dead.
>>>>
>>>> It's not going to be a good day.
>>> Tom,you should have used one of these:
>>> http://www.dustygizmos.com/images/Widgetweek/instamatic.jpg
>>>
>>> At least if it busted in the drop, you wouldn't lose much.
>> Somebody has got to be selling the film cassettes and flash bulbs on ebay.
>>
>
>
> Didn't those use flash CUBES? Talk about the millionaire next door....who's
> got the patent on those?

Yes, they did. When I was 8 I got a Kodak 110 Instamatic that used the
flash cubes. Why cubes when the bar flash worked without the overhead of
the mechanical 1/4 turn of the cube I'll never understand once I aged a
few more years.
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John H. wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:11:17 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III" <"Reggie is
> Here "@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> John H. wrote:
>>> On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:58:59 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
>>> <email.DeleteThis@swsportsremove.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Went out side for the morning cigar and saw two huge Fisher Cats
>>>> squaring off at the tree line - very unusual - probably males as they
>>>> were easily in the 12/15 pound range.
>>>>
>>>> Ran inside to get my new E-3 - dropped it off the deck right onto the
>>>> concrete patio.
>>>>
>>>> Words I didn't even know I knew rang out over the land.
>>>>
>>>> Even worse - I left it lying there and ran back inside to get the
>>>> movie camera.
>>>>
>>>> Battery dead.
>>>>
>>>> It's not going to be a good day.
>>> Sorry to hear about the E-3.
>>>
>>> Now you've got a good excuse to upgrade to a Nikon D40.
>> Actually his Olympus is closer to the D200, just not as good.
>
> I was being a touch sarcastic. Maybe I was *too* subtle.

Or maybe my mind was on hold, who knows.

Whatever he does, he needs to use a camera strap.
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