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Re: [OM] Day three--when will the withdrawal symptoms cease?

Subject: Re: [OM] Day three--when will the withdrawal symptoms cease?
From: fdayrit@xxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 07:23:42 +0900
ken,

prozac is the answer, maybe even lithium(not the batteries)....

francis

Ken Norton wrote:

> The other day I waxed poetic regarding the OM's and lamanted my temporary
> sabatical from them.  Well, I now am in day three and am going through
> various symptoms of withdrawal.
>
> Yesterday, it was so bad I found myself at the film counter at K-Mart
> drooling over a disposable Fuji camera.  I got the shakes so bad that they
> had to call security over and escort me away from the one-hour lab.
>
> Last night, I got up at 2:00AM and took the Zuikos out of the camera bag and
> cleaned every one.  I even changed the batteries in the flash!
>
> This morning instead of grabbing an eggo waffle from the freezer I tried
> stuffing two rolls of Sensia into the toaster.
>
> It is getting so bad, that I'm even thinking about charging an OM-3T on my
> Discover Card!  STOP ME, PLEASE!!!!!   I'm dreaming about a 350/2.8 with 1.4
> teleconverter stuffed on the front of a beautiful OM-3T while sitting in a
> blind (hide) in Yellowstone National Park, surrounded by wildlife and every
> shot I take (motor drive 2) is an award winner and commands at least $3000
> per use and Art Wolfe comes over and begs me to trade my camera outfit for
> his three brand new Nikon F5 bodies and 600/4 AF lenses and I say "not on
> your life, buddy"--just then an EMP from an exploding nuclear reactor
> somewhere in the world just toasted the electronics in every modern camera
> except for my OM-3T and I'm the only photographer to get the picture of the
> mushroom cloud which goes on the front cover of every newspaper and magazine
> in the world which causes the people of the USA to elect me King (er
> President), but four months into my highly successful administration
> somebody tries to assinate me but the titanium top and bottom plates of the
> OM-3T stop the bullet making everybody realize that OM cameras are the most
> wonderful PPDs (personal protection devices) and they all go out and buy
> them which causes Olympus to produce more which drives the price down to $59
> USD each and everybody on this list becomes happy because Olympus even
> introduces an OM-5T and OM-6T with every wishlist item and it is the same
> size and weight as an OM-1 and fully updates the Zuiko line with AF lenses
> that are AF even on manual bodies and of course to top it all off, PVT
> learns how to snip messages and as a result gets worldwide distribution
> rights to the Varamagni-Finder--oh, no, now I'm hallucinating!
>
> I can't take this much longer, gotta have an OM fix, gotta have an OM fix,
> gotta have an OM fix, gotta have an OM fix, gotta have an OM fix, gotta have
> an OM fix, gotta have an OM fix...
>
> Ken (OM-less) Norton
>
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