Re: How old are we? ***VERY*** OLD !!

Hi Mark,

I have to say, Judy is a really hot lady.

I did not ask her to pose nude for me. But, mercifully, she did not
ask me to pose nude for her either.

Sandy

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>Like two ships passing in the night.....
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>Damn Sandy, after that first paragraph, I was expecting to read
>something really hot!
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>I too have met Judy-she bought me a corned beef sandwich at the
>Carnegie Deli in New York City. As Sandy says, she's far from the
>shriveled little old lady she would have you believe with her posts.
>Alas though, she still refuses to pose nude for my camera.....now
>Sandy, on the other hand....but that's another story hehehehe (just
>kidding Sandy)
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>As I travel around the country, I try to meet people from the list.
>Some are very much like what you would expect from their posts on
>the list-others are quite different. When you actually meet people
>face to face, with rare exception, you go away feeling richer from
>getting to know them and seeing their work. Our impressions from
>the list are not always accurate and I would dare say that we would
>all like more people than we think we would if we met them face to
>face-and we would probably be more polite with them onlist as a
>result. A very few we might just stone to death. hehehe
>
>I have even had dinner with T-Rex, though obviously that did nothing
>to prevent the frequent necessity for a vigorous degassing.
>
>This is not to say that some of the very people you enjoy and love
>will not sometimes piss you off with their posts. I am sure there
>are folks that I have irritated with my humor (or attempts at it)
>over the years I have been on the list-or maybe they just find my
>laugh annoying. hehehehe.
>
>Normally I just read what interests me and delete the rest. I can
>even live with some of the bickering that occurs. I do however
>agree with Camden that healthy arguments are fine-it's when it turns
>personal that it gets nasty. If people could just avoid that, it
>would solve 99% of the list problems. Then there are those rare
>occasions where the personal attacks go way over the top. I am not
>in favor of censorship, however there have to be some rules in a
>community, be they ever so basic, or the community will not survive.
>I have yet to see anyone banned from this list by Gordon that didn't
>deserve it.
>
>So when people regularly fly under the radar of "behavior worthy of
>banning" and are just plain irritating but not "bannable"-you have
>your delete key. It's not that difficult to know who these people
>are in a list. You can figure it out with a #2 pencil. It's the
>old Sociogram. You write all the names from the list in a circle.
>Then when you see a post that has a hint of nastiness in it, you
>draw a line between the two people. In the end, the person(s) with
>the most lines connecting them to other people win.... or lose.
>
>There is one anomaly on this list and it is both a blessing and a
>curse-the abundance of talented gum printers. I don't know exactly
>what it is about gum-perhaps it is the abundance of variables that
>are so difficult to control that eventually drives them over the
>edge...... were there Platinum Wars at one time? Cyanotype Wars?
>Well, I suppose this isn't unusual.... just log on to APUG and type
>"DIGITAL ANYTHING" and see if you aren't pounded to the consistency
>of a bowl of gruel in less than a nanosecond.
>
>I will confess that I too have my weaknesses and frailties. There
>are times at 2:00 am or 3:00 am when I read a post and I just can't
>let my finger hit that delete key. Something stirs inside and I
>make that initial mistake of whacking the REPLY button. On rare
>occasion I cancel the reply or better yet, put it in the "Send Later
>After Brain Is Engaged Basket." But sometimes both of these options
>fail and I send a response to the list that would better have been
>sent privately to the person.... or maybe not even sent at all.
>
>And I try not to make any sort of political comments on the list,
>since I know that saying things like "This administration is the
>scariest thing I have ever seen, has hijacked our country, attacked
>the Constitution, turned the Corporate Predators loose on the
>citizens, squandered our country's respect and leadership in the
>eyes of the rest of the world, and violated the Geneva Conventions"
>will only cause a great deal of angst among list members and tons of
>email to respond to and besides that is not the topic of this
>list..... it is Alt Photo. So, how bout that Palladium stuff, don't
>it make great hand made prints?
>
>Best Wishes,
>Mark Nelson, FRPITA
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>In a message dated 7/28/06 5:47:11 PM, sanking@clemson.edu writes:
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>>Judy,
>>
>>Although we have not always agreed I think you area a fabulous
>>person. And more beautiful, interesting and intriguing in real life
>>than on the list! I only spent a few hours with you, many years ago
>>in NY, but the experience is one I treasure.
>>
>>I understand your frustration in the present situation, but you are
>>not alone. Just look at recent comments by Don, Mark Nelson and me
>>with regard to the present situation. You have folks here, many, who
>>agree with you and are on your side.
Received on 07/28/06-08:44:27 PM Z