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Subject: [OM] Retentive "passed" stickers
From: Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 08:59:13 -0500
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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