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**George Kerby**

On 3/22/13 3:56 AM, in article
, "David J. Littleboy"
wrote:

"Martin Brown" wrote:

Watch the Olympic opening sequence to see how many morons think a puny
on camera flash can illuminate an olympic stadium at night time.

A joke that was already old when I was young (I heard it around 1966 or so):

Q: What do I set my Instamatic on to take a flash picture of the moon?
A: Infinity.

-- David J. Littleboy
Tokyo, Japan

When working at a local camera store in the 70's we had a lady come in who
had just received a tele lens for Christmas and was befuddled about the "ƒ"
mark on the lens barrel. My buddy tried to explain to the elderly patron
that it was the symbol for infinity. The lady looked befuddled and asked if
that was in feet or meters. Hitch tried to explain that it didn't really
matter because it was simply 'infinite', to which she asked the similar
question, "Is that farther than the moon?".