Okay, I can't resist trotting out an old story told by my parents.
They met when my Mom was teaching photography for the Army. They were
engaged, when they were approached by a guy with "odd mannerisms", as my
Mom put it (my guess is we'd call him a nerd or geek today). He said he
had a new chemical process for photography, and that he was looking for
investors, at the princely sum of $1 a share. Well, my parents figured
that they could scrape together all of $1,000. (Which was a LOT of
money in those days!)
You can guess the rest. My folks decided it was too risky, the guy's
name was Land, the process was Polaroid.
I console myself with the thought that if they HAD invested, I'd
probably be an even more insufferable jerk than I already am! <grin>
Chris Kotting
ckotting@iwaynet.net
At 10:21 AM 02/09/2000 EST, you wrote:
>In all fairness to Polaroid it isn't a camera at all, it's a chemistry set
>and not bad at that for what it does. When you put a Polaroid back on a
>"real camera" you can take pix like those in their ads.
>Now let's hear about LBCs.
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>George
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