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From: Barry B. Bean <bbbean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Zuiko-holics Anonymous <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 3:07 PM
Subject: [OM] Olympian Fame
>I've spent a good part of the spring & summer honing my monopod
>technique by shooting my son's ball games, and put together an album
>for parents and players to browse through and pick out prints they
>wanted (hopefully recouping some of my expense and building a
>portfolio in the process). I took the album to the park last night
>for our last tournament game, and the pictures got rave reviews all
>around.
>
>But the strangest comment I heard was:
>
>"Wow, that Olympus sure does take some nice pictures!"
>
>Now while I agree that my Olympuses (Olympi? Olympodes?) take great
>pictures, I was under the impression that I still had something to do
>with the end result.
Barry: Have heart! Remember that Olympian refers to being grand,
magnificant, celestial, superior..... and that Olympus was the Thessalian
mountain on which the classical Greek gods dwelt. You were the god who came
down the mountain at just the right moments and captured all those rave
review images ...!
jh
>
>Ah well...
>
>BBB
>-
>B.B. Bean - Have horn, will travel bbbean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Peach Orchard, MO http://www.beancotton.com/bbbean.shtml
>
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