At 10:13 AM +0000 1/31/02, olympus-digest wrote:
>
>Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 18:56:04 -0500
>From: "Walt Wayman" <hiwayman@xxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [OM] Sick Puppies?
>
>This brings up another subject dear to my heart. Am I the only
>one who peels those little gold, football-shaped (American
>football) "Passed" stickers off as soon as I take whatever it is
>out of the box? A few months ago I bought an OM-1n. The camera
>looked nearly new, and that stupid little sticker looked even
>newer, still stuck to the side of the pentaprism. It had to have
>been there -- what? -- a quarter century? It's not there now.
>When I bought my OM-4Ti last year, brand new from B&H, the sticker
>came off before the batteries went in.
>
>It may just be a personal thing, but those stickers to me are like
>leaving the price tag on stuff. End of rant. I do keep boxes,
>though, and every scrap of paper with writing on it.
I confess that I too take those passed stickers off as well.
>Does "anal retentive" have a hyphen?
Only when it's used as an adjective (or perhaps an adverb). Example: The
anal-retentive zuikoholic publically confessed to removing those annoying
little "passed" stickers. The police soon arrived.
Joe Gwinn
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