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Post by byuphoto on Mar 13, 2006 15:50:33 GMT -5
Ron, I could make you a cup of tea that would make you swear off coffee altogether. The problem with you Americans is that you learnt bad habits very early on in your history. Trust me - nobody is ever going to make a good cup of tea by steeping the leaves in cold, salty water!! Regards - John I thought we learned our bad habits from the Brits ;D JK John. I don't do coffee anymore and even have decaf tea now and with the blood pressure meds and fluid pills I am more steady than when I was 20. I have always been able to shoot at slower speeds, handheld, than anyone I know. However, I would have preferred the 300 f4 as it is much lighter but I was shooting in very low light that morning. I would love to have the 400 f2.8 but that is just a dream
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Post by John Parry on Mar 13, 2006 16:21:09 GMT -5
Rick Met a great guy from Kansas when I was working in Saudi. He was (among a large number of other accomplishments), an electronics engineer. He had spent some time in the far east, and his hands shook, but he was one of the best printed circuit board repair men I've ever seen. Held the board in one hand, soldering iron in the other, and his hands shook in synchronism. Used to bellow for someone to come and put some solder on the iron from time to time!
Regards - John
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Post by vintageslrs on Mar 14, 2006 19:06:56 GMT -5
John
I don't know if anyone else caught your comment about early american history....and making tea with cold salty water...... ;D...an obvious reference to what has become known as the "Boston Tea Party"....but lol..... Sherri caught it and thought it was hilarious!!! good job John....and I wish you could make me that excellent cup of tea...and wanted you to know Sherri was sharp enough to catch your meaning.
be well...have fun Bob
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Post by mickeyobe on Mar 14, 2006 19:44:53 GMT -5
Bob,
There you are. It just takes a magic touch of Sherri to make a cuppa cold, salty tea palatable.
Mickey
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Post by John Parry on Mar 15, 2006 2:47:38 GMT -5
Expected nothing less from Sherri, Bob.
Sherri - looking forward to some of your posts BTW!
Regards - John
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Post by vintageslrs on Mar 15, 2006 10:36:58 GMT -5
Mickey
LOLOL.
right you are...very good!
Bob
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Post by kiev4a on Mar 15, 2006 12:49:30 GMT -5
John: You Brits got a bad rap on the Revolution. It's my understanding Samuel Adams and Paul Revere started it because they owned stock in a coffee plantation on Maui. I think I read it on the Internet so it must be true:)
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Post by byuphoto on Mar 15, 2006 15:51:10 GMT -5
John: You Brits got a bad rap on the Revolution. It's my understanding Samuel Adams and Paul Revere started it because they owned stock in a coffee plantation on Maui. I think I read it on the Internet so it must be true:) I take offence to this alegation. If there is one thing I can not stand it is history inaccuracies. It was either s sugar or pineapple plantation ;D
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Post by John Parry on Mar 15, 2006 16:20:06 GMT -5
AHhhhh!
But YOU were Brits then !!
John
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Post by byuphoto on Mar 15, 2006 16:57:27 GMT -5
AHhhhh! But YOU were Brits then !! John I thought, as they used to say. "We were COLONISTS" ;D
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Post by kiev4a on Mar 15, 2006 18:23:02 GMT -5
I guess it's probably OK to get into OLD politics. Anyone who really looks at the events of the pre-revolutionary period knows The British would have been well within their rights to throw old Sam Adams in the slammer for all the rabble rousing he did. We really weren't being treated that badly--a bunch of Boston merchants just didn't like the idea of having to pay taxes on good they were smuggling into the colonies. Still, I guess every thing worked out for the best. We did get the right to drink coffee instead of tea out of the deal. Wasn't it Churchill who said the United States and Great Britain "are two countries, separated by a common language." I have a brother-in-law who has lived in GB for the past 10 years and he cain't hardly talk younighted states no more.
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Post by byuphoto on Mar 15, 2006 21:13:53 GMT -5
I hope everyone knows I am just kidding. As an Irish/Welsh anglo-saxon I have a deep and abiding love for the British Commonwealth
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