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Re: [OM] OM2000-Gnomes-Dr. H

Subject: Re: [OM] OM2000-Gnomes-Dr. H
From: "John Hermanson" <omtech@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 13:21:59 -0400
I'm...........scared!

John

----- Original Message -----
From: Charles Loeven <cpl49@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 10:42 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] OM2000-Gnomes-Dr. H


> Dear sir,
> Although your very imaginative thoughts on who John Hermanson really is,
> I was amused but you are mistaken.
> Dr. H. is chained up in my basement and I am collecting all the little
parts
> needed to keep my OM1 going forever.  Forever you say is a long time
> and what if the good doctor ..ummm... expires before me?
> Well the cloning experiment is going well and the sheep are getting used
to
> the basement.  Soon 2 Johns then 3 then.....
> Oh no, they will be coming after me now!!
>
> Name and location withheld.
>
> PS: The West Australian Newspaper had the best labor contract ever
devised.
> Gnomes were jealous.
>
>
> <<Let me try explain the use of "they" -
> I have only had contact with John Hermanson (aka CamTech) through email
> and once or twice I talked on the phone with a man identifying himself
> as "John Hermanson". I have never met the man or visited CamTech
> personally.
> So, I don't know if CamTech is a one man operation or a larger
> enterprise or if it even exists in the known universe. All I know is: I
> carefully pack my Oly equipment in a box addressed to CamTech. Take to a
> place where there are a lot of brown trucks and a lot of people wearing
> brown uniforms. I give my money and my box to a brown uniform. The brown
> uniform disappears through a door with my box (full of my Oly
> equipment). Then five weeks or so later a brown truck pulls up to my
> door. A brown uniform gets out and hands me a box. I open the box and
> inside is my Oly equipment clean and working perfectly. I'm once again
> happy.
>
> Now I ask. How many of you have ever actually met John Hermanson, Hmmh?
> ( Don't answer that ) ;-}
>
> Is it possible that "John Hermanson" is a fictional icon like Betty
> Crocker or Joe Camel?
> And in reality CamTech exists in an alternate universe run entirely by
> camera tech gnomes?
> It's sensible that gnomes would be good camera techs. Gnomes are very,
> very small and so are most camera parts.
> And that this alternate universe is only accessible through the brown
> uniform wearing people?
> How do we know that this "John Hermanson" isn't a camera tech gnome?
> Maybe he has a workshop full of camera tech gnomes toiling away
> somewhere.
> This reasoning might also explain the model railroading. It's a fact
> 'Gnomes like trains'.
> Did you think of that? I didn't think so.
>
> "But, wouldn't the turn-around time be better if all these gnomes were
> toiling so diligently?", you ask.
> Well, have you ever worked for a union? A gnome union? An alternate
> universe gnome union?
> I didn't think so. They have the absolute best labor contracts
> imaginable. Heck, if we had this contract in this universe we all would
> be spending our free time, our extensive free time under the labor
> contract, riding trains and taking photographs.
>
> John, whatever you are or however many of you there are I appreciate
> your skill and knowledge, it makes me happy.
>
> After proof reading what I wrote:
> I'll be sooo glad when I can start getting close to eight hours sleep a
> night (or day) again!
> What the heck, the last sentence's good. I'll send it.>>
>
>
>
>
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