Hey - that's my family motto you're criticising...
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Jez
On 16 November 2011 15:51, Piers Hemy <piers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Criticise his grammar? Why would one want to do that (one doesn't do it
> without just cause, you know)?
>
> On the contrary, full marks to young Fildes for using "fork out" rather
> than
> the dreadful "fork over" (I could barely bring myself to type that, my dear
> chap) :-)
>
> Piers
>
> PS If there had been any cause for criticism, the blame would surely have
> lain at the sub-editor's door. Or the parent's.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Fildes [mailto:afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 16 November 2011 08:59
> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
> Subject: [OM] You're rich. Buy your own, OK?
>
> #1 son sent me a message a couple of days ago - he's finally written about
> photography - in a way.
> He seemed to find this quite amusing -
>
> "I got this mini-scoop into The Times today:"
> • Another sign that the days of the corporate freebie are over. Joe
> Baratta,
> the most senior member of Blackstone’s private equity team in Europe,
> spearheaded the £100 million-plus investment in Leica in October. The
> private equity heavy hitter mentioned at that time that he was lusting
> after
> a Leica camera, having completed the deal for a 44 per cent stake in the
> German company. A month on and City Diary learns that Mr Baratta finally
> has
> his Leica. However, we were surprised to learn that he had to fork out for
> the camera from his own pocket. “Aren’t you in private equity? Don’t you
> earn enough money to buy your own?” Mr Baratta was asked when he inquired
> whether he could have one on the house. Typical teutonic frugality or a
> sign
> that the company is very tightly run?
>
> I explained to him that the nice folk at Leica only admire two types of
> people - very good photographers and very good camera designers. The rest
> of
> us can cough up.
> And Chris B, if you want to criticise his grammar I'll let him know and
> give
> him your phone number. And you really, really don't want me to do that. He
> can be a very grumpy young man.
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
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