Originally posted by Ira This guy Rio is so smart that he DISGUSTS me. He possesses the kind of common sense and intelligence that would have seen him burned at the stake in Salem.
Is that a compliment? I hope so. Hay, maybe I *was* torched in Salem, then reincarnated so I could burn down a Mormon-owned supermarket, ?quien sabe? Hit my rep while you're at it, eh?
Yes, some old lenses are gems; some are junk; some are really *nice* junk; and some are curiosities, especially if they aren't all black, and they have buttons and levers and scales, and engravings in weird scripts, and weigh 2 kilos, etc. And sometimes they're just junk. We won't know until you tell us what you have.
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That reminds me of two risque soundbites from my past, one from a recording, the other from live radio. First, from a Firesign Theatre skit:
Announcer: Go ahead Mrs Kreske, take a look inside the bag!
Contestant: Why... this is nothing but a bag of SH!T!!
Announcer: That's right! But it's really GREAT sh!t, Mrs Kreske!
And then, from a small-town (Ft Bragg Calif) radio station with a call-in program for listeners to announce the junk they're selling:
Announcer: Hello, KDFC Swap Meet, whaddya have?
Caller: I dunno, but it's ten inches long, and it itches and drips.
The radio station installed a tape-delay system after than one.