[LargeFormat] It's only a matter of time before another photo opportunity is gone forever...

[Graeme Hird]

Brock,

Isn't it great to have friends for Christmas? We just have the turkey, but
sometimes we can't catch a politician and make do with pork. :)

Cheers,
Graeme

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brock Nanson" <brock@nanson.org>
To: <largeformat@f32.net>
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 9:14 AM
Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] It's only a matter of time before another photo
opportunity is gone forever...


> Ah, Stuart, it was you.  I couldn't see any other messages once I started
> writing (PINE email program) and wasn't going to guess.  I won't get into
> a debate as to which nation or continent boasts the heaviest citizens, but
> will explain how it is that Canadians aren't terrible hefty (well, they
> are, but that spoils the fun).
>
> It's very simple.  We eat them.  The heaviest are generally the easiest to
> catch, offer the most calories and generally leave leftovers.  Canada is
> of course the 'great white north', where it gets cold during the winter,
> requiring greater caloric intake.  Those heftier members of the population
> also eat the most, hence removing them from, or perhaps moving them to,
> the food chain is a logical course of action.
>
> It's just past 5PM.  Time to go home and see who the good wife is serving
> for dinner tonight...
>
> ;-))
>
> Brock
>
> On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, stuart phillips wrote:
>
> > I made the suggstion and I did rather mean width. i would have to
exclude
> > Canadians as on my recent trip to Montreal I saw no obese Canadians and
not
> > many fat ones. It was a little intimidating actually.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Brock Nanson" <brock@nanson.org>
> > To: <largeformat@f32.net>
> > Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 5:23 PM
> > Subject: RE: [LargeFormat] It's only a matter of time before another
photo
> > opportunity is gone forever...
> >
> >
> > > Huib, did you stay up all night coming up with that one? ;-)  I
actually
> > > did laugh out loud...!
> > >
> > > It was also suggested that Europeans be known as 'medium format' and
north
> > > americans as 'large format'.  However, I just recently saw an article
that
> > > the Dutch or the Danes were the tallest on average, with the Swedes
> > > second.  Or so I recall.  Bottom line, we north americans probably
can't
> > > take the title of 'large format'.... unless he was referring to
something
> > > other than height... but I'm not going to be baited into that argument
;-)
> > >
> > > Brock
> > >
> > > On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Huib Smeets wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > DWARFS = Digital Will Actually Replace Film Soon
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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