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From: Gill Collins on 27 May 2010 20:38
On Thu, 27 May 2010 17:18:04 -0700, Savageduck
<savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote:

>On 2010-05-27 16:54:53 -0700, John Navas <jnspam1(a)navasgroup.com> said:
>
>> On Wed, 26 May 2010 20:23:55 -0400, "Larry Thong"
>> <larry_thong(a)shitstring.com> wrote in
>> <zsOdnWVaCuloJmDWnZ2dnUVZ_vudnZ2d(a)supernews.com>:
>>
>>> And the old 500/4 was there to capture all the action! The 70-200 VRII was
>>> there as well but didn't come out of the bag. It was a great show and a
>>> nice bike ride getting there, even with the temp being 94� in the shade.
>>> The best part of all I didn't have to suffer with traffic or parking.
>>> Of course, it had to be hazy and the 2:00 sun didn't help much either.
>>> <http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm261/Ritaberk/In_The_Bag.jpg>
>>> <http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm261/Ritaberk/Mirror.jpg>
>>
>> Panasonic FZ20: <http://i46.tinypic.com/vo7mza.jpg>
>
>I have a soft spot for the older birds;
>< http://homepage.mac.com/lco/filechute/P51D%40Salinas2009_2159w.jpg >

Tourists' banal snapshots, anyone? What a major snooze fest.


banal [adjective]

syn INSIPID 3, bland, flat, milk-and-water, namby-pamby, sapless, vapid,
waterish, watery, wishy-washy

rel hackneyed, pedestrian, trite, warmed-over; bromidic, commonplace,
corny, platitudinous, stock; bewhiskered, hoary, old; asinine, fatuous,
silly, simple

con fresh, new, novel; different, uncommon, unusual; stimulating, zesty;
choice, rare, recherche

ant original

(C)1996 Zane Publishing, Inc. and Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. All
rights reserved.


From: John McWilliams on 27 May 2010 21:23
Gill Collins wrote:

>
> banal [adjective]
>
> syn INSIPID 3, bland, flat, milk-and-water, namby-pamby, sapless, vapid,
> waterish, watery, wishy-washy
>
> rel hackneyed, pedestrian, trite, warmed-over; bromidic, commonplace,
> corny, platitudinous, stock; bewhiskered, hoary, old; asinine, fatuous,
> silly, simple
>
> con fresh, new, novel; different, uncommon, unusual; stimulating, zesty;
> choice, rare, recherche
>
> ant original
>
> (C)1996 Zane Publishing, Inc. and Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. All
> rights reserved.

Some of the above adjectives describe our nym-shifting, world-hating and
redundant troll.

Cool!

--
lsmft
From: John Navas on 27 May 2010 21:42
On Thu, 27 May 2010 17:18:04 -0700, Savageduck
<savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote in
<2010052717180416807-savageduck1(a)REMOVESPAMmecom>:

>On 2010-05-27 16:54:53 -0700, John Navas <jnspam1(a)navasgroup.com> said:
>
>> On Wed, 26 May 2010 20:23:55 -0400, "Larry Thong"
>> <larry_thong(a)shitstring.com> wrote in
>> <zsOdnWVaCuloJmDWnZ2dnUVZ_vudnZ2d(a)supernews.com>:
>>
>>> And the old 500/4 was there to capture all the action! The 70-200 VRII was
>>> there as well but didn't come out of the bag. It was a great show and a
>>> nice bike ride getting there, even with the temp being 94� in the shade.
>>> The best part of all I didn't have to suffer with traffic or parking.
>>> Of course, it had to be hazy and the 2:00 sun didn't help much either.
>>> <http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm261/Ritaberk/In_The_Bag.jpg>
>>> <http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm261/Ritaberk/Mirror.jpg>
>>
>> Panasonic FZ20: <http://i46.tinypic.com/vo7mza.jpg>
>
>I have a soft spot for the older birds;
>< http://homepage.mac.com/lco/filechute/P51D%40Salinas2009_2159w.jpg >

Nice, especially the reflections under the wing.

--
Best regards,
John

Buying a dSLR doesn't make you a photographer,
it makes you a dSLR owner.
"The single most important component of a camera
is the twelve inches behind it." -Ansel Adams
From: John McWilliams on 28 May 2010 01:49
John Navas wrote:
> On Thu, 27 May 2010 17:18:04 -0700, Savageduck
> <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote in
> <2010052717180416807-savageduck1(a)REMOVESPAMmecom>:
>
>> On 2010-05-27 16:54:53 -0700, John Navas <jnspam1(a)navasgroup.com> said:
>>
>>> On Wed, 26 May 2010 20:23:55 -0400, "Larry Thong"
>>> <larry_thong(a)shitstring.com> wrote in
>>> <zsOdnWVaCuloJmDWnZ2dnUVZ_vudnZ2d(a)supernews.com>:
>>>
>>>> And the old 500/4 was there to capture all the action! The 70-200 VRII was
>>>> there as well but didn't come out of the bag. It was a great show and a
>>>> nice bike ride getting there, even with the temp being 94° in the shade.
>>>> The best part of all I didn't have to suffer with traffic or parking.
>>>> Of course, it had to be hazy and the 2:00 sun didn't help much either.
>>>> <http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm261/Ritaberk/In_The_Bag.jpg>
>>>> <http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm261/Ritaberk/Mirror.jpg>
>>> Panasonic FZ20: <http://i46.tinypic.com/vo7mza.jpg>
>> I have a soft spot for the older birds;
>> < http://homepage.mac.com/lco/filechute/P51D%40Salinas2009_2159w.jpg >
>
> Nice, especially the reflections under the wing.

Is that a very large beer, or surf, or .... what?

--
john mcwilliams

From: John Navas on 28 May 2010 09:46
On Thu, 27 May 2010 16:54:53 -0700, John Navas <jnspam1(a)navasgroup.com>
wrote in <lb1uv55auljf6qvbafkkqpotsem6jl48sq(a)4ax.com>:

>On Wed, 26 May 2010 20:23:55 -0400, "Larry Thong"
><larry_thong(a)shitstring.com> wrote in
><zsOdnWVaCuloJmDWnZ2dnUVZ_vudnZ2d(a)supernews.com>:
>
>>And the old 500/4 was there to capture all the action! The 70-200 VRII was
>>there as well but didn't come out of the bag. It was a great show and a
>>nice bike ride getting there, even with the temp being 94� in the shade.
>>The best part of all I didn't have to suffer with traffic or parking.
>>Of course, it had to be hazy and the 2:00 sun didn't help much either.
>><http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm261/Ritaberk/In_The_Bag.jpg>
>><http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm261/Ritaberk/Mirror.jpg>
>
>Panasonic FZ20: <http://i46.tinypic.com/vo7mza.jpg>

p.s. That was of course an impossible shot because of slow autofocus in
Panasonic super-zoom compact digital cameras, at least according to
self-appointed photography (and cellular and Internet and oh my!) expert
Steven Scharf, who's never actually used one. ;)

--
Best regards,
John

"A little learning is a dangerous thing." -Alexander Pope
"It is better to sit in silence and appear ignorant,
than to open your mouth and remove all doubt." -Mark Twain
"Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn."
-Benjamin Franklin
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