Icelanders in America

[P. J. Alling]

Thrainn, are you in a time warp.  My mail reader thinks your messages 
were sent in June.  (Check your system date). 

Thrainn Vigfusson wrote:
> I guess I'll just throw away the bottle of turpentine then, and keep the 
> pencils.
>
> Thrainn
>
> On Sunday 05 August 2007 04:31, skye pdml wrote:
>   
>> that bottle of stuff has turpentine in it? Isn't that flammable? If
>> so, flammable stuff is not allowed to be mailed.
>>
>> -skye
>>
>> PS: I'm in the seattle area, if you'll be around there.
>>
>> On 5/26/07, Thrainn Vigfusson <thv at vortex.is> wrote:
>>     
>>> Next Tuesday I'll be leaving for a two week trip to the US with my wife.
>>> We'll be staying in New York, San Francisco, and Washington State.
>>>
>>> My first stop will be B&H. I would have liked to be able to buy either of
>>> the new DA* lenses, but it looks like they won't have arrived. I'm also
>>> very keen on the 31mm Limited, so maybe it's a good thing the DA*s aren't
>>> available, so I won't blow all my money on the first day. Anyway, I also
>>> have a shopping list of all kinds of things B&H can't ship, i.e. toners
>>> and oil colors for hand-coloring black and white prints.
>>> For the record, I've never understood why B&H aren't allowed to send
>>> retouching pencil sets by mail. See for example this page:
>>>
>>> http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/34682-REG/
>>> Marshall_Retouching_MSPSET_Deluxe_Pencil_Set_14_Colors_.html
>>>
>>> Does anyone know why?
>>>
>>> Thrainn
>>>       
>
>
>   


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