"Lena" or similar compression tests

Rick Lyons <R.Lyons@_BOGUS_ieee.org> wrote in 
news:ub46u35dea16333put43gbg0gro8b36109@4ax.com:

> On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:30:26 -0400, Jerry Avins <jya@ieee.org> wrote:
> 
>>Rick Lyons wrote:
>>> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:04:38 -0700, Eric Jacobsen
>>> <eric.jacobsen@ieee.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>   (snipped by Lyons)
>>>>> Try:
>>>>> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~chuck/lennapg/lenna_visit.html
>>> 
>>> If I saw Lenna (the "older Lenna" in the above web page) 
>>> in a bar, I'd **definitely** pressure her to help me put 
>>> quarters in the juke box so that we could dance.
>>> 
>>> Good God.  What a "handsome" woman!
>>
>>I hope and trust that her grandchildren think so too.
>>
>>Jerry
> 
> Hi Jerry,
>   maybe I'm turnin' into an "ol' fart" but I think 
> Lenna looks better in her recent pictures than 
> she did in her famous picture.
> 
> Yea, ... I guess I am an ol' fart.
> 
> [-Rick-]
> 

You are an old fart. Lenna was a very attractive young woman. She has aged 
fine, but I don't think she will be a pin up on too many walls.

Al