I'm sorry to hear that. We had fun trying to sell him on eBay.

mike

I'm sorry to hear about his eyes/the photography. I hopehis music is
fullfilling. I miss him/his keen sensitivity and vocal presence on
this newsgroup.

Lewis

On May 29, 10:40 pm, "Ken Nadvornick" <register.nad...@verizon.net>
wrote:

Thanks for the thought, though...

Verne DeWitt would have been beside himself...

Who's Verne DeWitt and why would he be beside himself?

Thanks :-)

Makes me think of better times gone by on

Roll back the clock 2-7 years - there were so many fine photographers/
afficianado/mindss on this newsgroup -- now it has become a bit of a
wasteland :-(

And fresh out of the foil wrapper too (Kodachrome Super 8 movie film
in the foil wrapper smelled better than any fine Cuban cigar - my
apologies to any Cubans, cigars, and/or Cuban cigars but its true) :-)

On May 29, 11:00 pm, SpAmmika1980 <SpAmmika1...@aol.com> wrote:

Hey ____, thanks, coming from a ____ like you that means alot! ("____"
means insert your favorite word or thumb up your *ss/foot in your
mouth as usual). HCB? Then you can call me Hank, LOL. Then isn't it a
good thing I have both (idiosynhrastic vision and talent) and you have
neither then, isn't it?

If idiocy was talent, you'd actually have some talent.

Funny how you accuse me of what you actually _ARE_ - all oh-how-ho-ver-
inflated opinion and no talent.

Jealous much/always?

Found? Found? When it comes to judging the worth of _anybody's_
photography you couldn't find the battleship good photography if it
were as large as the Queen Mary, inserted up your mouth/a.s (you
choose which sine with you they're both one and the same) and
surgically tied to your brain/belly button with Alfred Stieglitz'
cable release and a life saver for a shutter button that said "press
here dummy". LOL

Get real, your work aspires to scrape the pimple on the underbelly of
mediocre stock photography, you boast about your cameras and smother
this newsgroup with self-aggrandizing links to your mindless snapshot
efforts then have the nerve to call me self-inflated? As the Hakowees
would say about your hot air posts/ego infecting usenet... "IT IS (CAN-
OOOOOON) BA-LLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOON!" I have the work, past and present
(of which others may see but you will never see on this newsgroup
because it is _YOU_ who are unworthy, not the "we" you refer to) that
shows a mind and a vision. Just like your mouth your pictures say
nothing. Your work at best shouts "I love to fire off both a shutter
and my mouth at 8+MP at 5 f.p.s. with about the same lack of thought."
Don't lump yourself with anybody else in this group. THERE IS NO "WE"
just trolls like you and decent folk _UN_LIKE _YOU_ who want to rise
beyond your level of high-tech snapshot mediocrity.

I'm sure you have taken great pix

<LYING (AND/OR AN ASSUMPTION AT BEST USED FOR) PATRONIZING SARCASM
LEADING UP TO...>

its just that we aren't worthy to view them.

<...A NON-SEQUITOR/LOGICAL FALLACY OF TOTAL REVERSE SNOBBING TWISTED
STUPIDITY INTO FALSE GUILT/SYMPATHY -- IN OTHER WORDS, MORE TROLLING>

"Whatever" yourself.

Anybody (who's sincere and not a troll and/or a blowhard) can see them
in person, just _NOT_ _YOU_ - EVER!!!

Worthy or not, I show my work to people I care about, and people who
have or at least are willing to express sensitivity, not mouth-
crapping camera slapping total oral a.ses and camera/sports nerd
blowhards like yourself.

Again, there is no "WE", just trolls/a.ses, you in particular and your
kind (other trolls/a.ses which have infested usenet w/ your b.s.), of
which you are the very definition of one/both, neither of whom will
ever see my work, so thanks for both giving an example and proving my
point simultaneously. I don't show pearls before swine, and you may
consider yourself for all intents and purposes in the latter category
Spammika with your own over-inflated opinion of yourself and your
pointless work, your mindless trolling and your spamming of
rec.photo.equipment.35mm by turning it into the Mickey Mouse Tiger
Woods Canon Camera Club of Cyberspace extension of your bloated
talentless ego with your viral self-replicating sub-mediocre sub par
stock shot snapshots skat imagery bebopping of hawks, golf, dogs and
other mindless snapshot ephemera.

You remind me of a fat bloated talentless rank amature little boy turd
with a camera whose made cyberspace his ego's playground because
nobody with any self-respect or respect for the art or craft of
photography would want to be around.

 He came in after each round and bragged, "I shot 68 today,"

Pot, kettle, black. What a maroon you are. You really are worse than
ignorant aren't you?

"Got photography?"

"A little tougher making real photographs, not just play'n around with
oyur mouth and the shutter button, ain't it?"

All you do is play. Its the photographer not the equipment that
counts. All that equipment and what do you have to show for it? - a
mouth and a motor-drive stuck in air sucking mode and a baziilopixels
worth of meaningless snapshots."Craptography" Your playing is just
that, just mindless exposing - shot after shot of barely technically
competent crap. Instead of playing with people or your equipment why
don't you try getting a mind and doing some real photography that
transcends an exercise in adding to more than the mountain of
meaningless pixels upon which to place the golden calf of your camera/
ego-posting - stop taking snapshots and start taking real shots.
Photographyg to you is nothing more than a sport/a game - that's why
you will be forever playing and making snapshots instead of art.

What have you done that's worthwhile except rearrange pixels in the
form of hot air posts with links to mediocre snapshot imagery with or
without people you blowhard schill for a camera company to mask your
own complete lack of anyrhing that resembles talent?? Where are the
Fabulous Spammika articles, the Fabulous Spammika books? All you do is
create newsgroup and camera bullshit. Go play with people, play with
your cameras sports nerd, you have the perfect mentality for "playing"
since all you do is b.s.

Fetch Brettie! Fetch the doggie biscuit you just made out of your
mouth/a.s. That's a good doggie. Knew ya could. Taste bad? Add some
more b.s. for flavor. Now that's yummy for your tummy!

Its funny (as in strangely appropriate) that you use a golf analogy
since your work is sub-par and somewhere between the level of an
amature with rectal cranal inversion digititus and the lowest level of
Royalty free stock photography. I'd say go inhale yourself but you are
already so full of hot air (and yourself) that you'd either float up
like the hot air balloon that you are explode like a bottle rocket.

As for playing with people I don't see your work publish anywhere
except the imaginary fifedom of cyberspace and your own mind.

How fitting, as to your own supercalifragilistically expeallodocious
something quite atrocious "work" and over-inflated opinion of your own
work I consider you "All hat and All Bovine droppings All the time".
"The Cat that Shat in the Hat." Green eggs and Spammika.

You are the king of "All hat no cattle" as you have nothing but
mediocre snapshots - H.L.O.M., to be precise ("Highest Level of
Mediocrity") to show for all your blunderbussing and all the talent of
a trigger happy mindless snapshooting amature. You are all mouth and
equipment and no talent beyond the mere operation of your equipment as
your work (as well as your numerous posts) shows this in spades, so
when you accuse me of what _YOU_ ACTUALLY_ ARE_ I consider it a high
if unintentional complement as it proves that what you accuse me of is
what you are all about - an over-inflated opinion of yourself.

Your work will never transcend the mundane because the mind it comes
from is so mundane and lost in the mindless muck stage of ego-bloated
equipment worship and the conceptual/symboloic level of your shots
doesn't transcend beyond the level of mere skat-shooting camera
operator chimpanzee-level simulcrum replication/mimicry of whatever
unfortunate mundane subject in the world is in front of your lens.
KoKo (or its descendants) the gorilla could do an equal job if given a
fabulous AF camera as opposed to an old MF Olympus. (My apologies to
KoKo and/or its descendants as well as any thoughtful/intelligent
chimpanzee photographers if it thinks that I have in any way demeaned
their photographic prowess too far by being compared with a lower
order of photographic devolution such as Spammika).

In other words. You are all equipment and ego. You lack vision. And
what you lack in vision you uselessly try to make up for by posting
inane snapshots and bloated self-aggrandizingly titled posts. You are
all sight (or shite. might be a better desciption) and no insight and
both your way way way below par work and hyper-inflated equipment and
subject worshipping posts only prove this ever the more.

The years have not changed you. You are as Boss Hogg (Dukes of Hazard)
as ever. You are still the same fat ego-bloated talentless hacky sack
of an equipment fetishistic hot air ballon you were 5 years ago when
you were shooting film and spouting the same b.s. (pixels and/or
posts) with different Canon cameras.

Go back to worshipping your equipment and posting your mediocrity and
drivel -- your fabulous Canons are getting lonely. Stick to pixels as
it avoids the global warming that takes place had you spoken with your
own deliriously over-inflated ego/breath or digital mindless
meaningless abortions of aspiring to scrape the underbelly/anus of
mediocrity.

I have no respect for you either as a "photographer" or a human being
so your opinion, even if it wasn't biased by a desire to put my work
down in order to lift your own lacking work up (as if your hot air
didn't already accomplish that) is both specious and worthless at
best. To paraphrase Churchhill, never have so many owed so much nausea
(from  bloated newsgroup bellowing using equipment/ego-worship as a
form of self-glorification/crutch and posted links of mediocre
snapshots) to so few intimations of any talent.

Oh yeah and...

P*L*O*N*K

Hoooooooooooeeeeeeeeee, LOOK OUT BELOW!!!! as Spammika's hot air of
self-aggrandizing B.S. comes a swooping down like a deluge of mindless
photos Harry the Hawk and other crapshot photos!!!!

Y'all don't come back down now, ya heeeyah?! Yeehaaaaaawwwwwww!

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
++++++

You are now on *****TOTAL PERMANENT _IGNORE_*****. Go play with your
hawks, doggies, cheerleaders and golf buddies and go add to Canon's
profit line since you can't/are unwilling to add anything beyond
snapshots and egotistically titled camera worshipping posts. To
paraphrase Edward R. Murrow... "Goodbye and good riddance to bad
rubbish!" "Lameikka"

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