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Mike I. JonesModerator
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Worst/Best Optics Pun....?
      #3409078 - 10/24/09 10:35 PM

An old rancher decided he'd had enough after 50 years of cattle ranching and decided to turn the ranch over to his grown sons.

They thanked their Dad, but they had never cared for the old ranch name. They talked and decided to changed the name of the ranch to the Focus Ranch, where the sons raise meat.





OK....deep breaths now...




Mike


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Re: Worst/Best Optics Pun....? new [Re: Mike I. Jones]
      #3409422 - 10/25/09 06:43 AM

On reflection. I think I'll pass!

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refractory
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Re: Worst/Best Optics Pun....? new [Re: scopemankit]
      #3409424 - 10/25/09 06:50 AM

Posted long ago, so don't get your knickers in a bunch- how about the Herschel Wedgie- intended to bring a little illumination to where the sun don't shine?

Jess Tauber


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Glig
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Re: Worst/Best Optics Pun....? new [Re: refractory]
      #3409444 - 10/25/09 07:26 AM

Focus Ranch? Raise meat?

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Re: Worst/Best Optics Pun....? new [Re: refractory]
      #3409452 - 10/25/09 07:35 AM

I did not GRIT IT . Mike your optics puns need more polish . Maybe you are loosing contact . HA HA .

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Re: Worst/Best Optics Pun....? new [Re: Glig]
      #3409486 - 10/25/09 08:19 AM

Quote:

Focus Ranch? Raise meat?




Sun's rays meet (if you need illuminating)

Dave

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Re: Worst/Best Optics Pun....? new [Re: Mike I. Jones]
      #3409496 - 10/25/09 08:27 AM

So Mike, what's your primary objective for starting this thread anyway?

Dave

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Mark Harry
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Re: Worst/Best Optics Pun....? new [Re: dave brock]
      #3409519 - 10/25/09 08:46 AM

Focus ranch where the sun's rays meet..............


Took me about 5 minutes to see the pun- call me thick as a glass blank! Good one, Mikey!

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Re: Worst/Best Optics Pun....? new [Re: Mark Harry]
      #3409834 - 10/25/09 12:13 PM

Very nice! Now what is the BEST optics pun?

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Re: Worst/Best Optics Pun....? new [Re: johnnyha]
      #3409844 - 10/25/09 12:18 PM

Sounds like one of those tall Texas tales, usually a bit of ex-aberration.

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Re: Worst/Best Optics Pun....? new [Re: Ed Jones]
      #3409864 - 10/25/09 12:29 PM

In his book, "Unusual Telescopes", the late Peter Manly describes how he would give presentations while wearing a baseball cap with the word "Lens" printed on the front.

-Tim.

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Someone promised there`d be answers, if we stayed around."
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Re: Worst/Best Optics Pun....? new [Re: dave brock]
      #3409912 - 10/25/09 12:45 PM

Quote:

Quote:

Focus Ranch? Raise meat?




Sun's rays meet (if you need illuminating)

Dave


I STILL don't get it. Either that, or it ain't funny. Besides, it's parallel light so it don't focus.

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Re: Worst/Best Optics Pun....? new [Re: Glig]
      #3409927 - 10/25/09 12:55 PM

Parallel light will focus if you live in a universe of the right curvature- though it may take awhile longer than you've got..!

Jess Tauber


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Re: Worst/Best Optics Pun....? new [Re: refractory]
      #3410289 - 10/25/09 03:57 PM

How about writing a letter to Dear Abbe?

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Re: Worst/Best Optics Pun....? new [Re: bbbriggs]
      #3410432 - 10/25/09 04:49 PM

I heard this one some while back:

Did'ja hear about the optician who fell into his lens grinding machine?

He made a spectacle of himself.

Mark


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Re: Worst/Best Optics Pun....? new [Re: mark cowan]
      #3410445 - 10/25/09 04:57 PM

So is this thread supposed to be the collimation of the entire scope or spectrum of optic humor?

There, that's a triplet!

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Re: Worst/Best Optics Pun....? new [Re: Preston Smith]
      #3410465 - 10/25/09 05:08 PM

When the moment is right, how will you deal with your ED? Is focus soft? What if the mounting isn't stable, or there is backlash on the Slo-Mo? Won't even go into dewing....

Jess Tauber

Edited by refractory (10/25/09 05:09 PM)


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Mike I. JonesModerator
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Re: Worst/Best Optics Pun....? new [Re: bbbriggs]
      #3410525 - 10/25/09 05:50 PM

"Dear Abbe"...



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Re: Worst/Best Optics Pun....? new [Re: Mike I. Jones]
      #3410621 - 10/25/09 07:09 PM

This thing has been up almost 24 hours and no jokes about the seventh planet? I'm VERY disappointed.

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Re: Worst/Best Optics Pun....? new [Re: Mike I. Jones]
      #3410733 - 10/25/09 08:24 PM

"Best pun" is an oxymoron. The worst pun is by definition the best... And a lot of these jokes aren't puns.

Here's one:

Seems these two opticians were troubleshooting a new research telescope. One says to the other, "The astronomers had no luck at prime." The other one replies, "Well, beats me. Coudé focus?"


Best,
Mark


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