Date:         Sat, 1 May 2004 14:46:51 -0700
Reply-To:     Robert Fisher <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Robert Fisher <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
Subject:      Re: Friday Fish Rap
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Um... who puts the giant sausage on top of the pole in the first place?
R

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Steven Fish" <fish@SALZBURG.CO.AT>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 3:28 AM
Subject: Re: Friday Fish Rap


> Thank you Ben for once again allowing "Vanagon content" to enter my real
> inbox!
>
> Today is May Day here in Austria, and all the towns are busy hoisting up
> their MayPoles in the town squares.  Once they are vertical (should take a
> few hours still) then there will be the competitions to see who can
actually
> climb up the 10 meter+ tree trunks, and manage to grab either a giant
> pretzel, or sausage from the top.  It is all very exciting!
>
> Regarding those elephant tusks...that appears to be a South African
> Caravelle... I just hope that the cargo was optained legally... otherwise
> someone could be in a heap of trouble... but knowing you, you are probably
> busy carving those "elephant tusks" into little chess pieces, and selling
> them on ebay.de to unsuspecting T3 fans.
>
> And just so you know... the count of UNREAD emails in my vanagon box is
now
> up to 21,192 and growing. But total vanagon mail is holding at 60,451, so
> that means that at least I USED to keep up with all this stuff a bit!
>
> Happy May Day!
>
> Rob
>
> IMPORTANT!!! In order to reply to me, you must have the word "FISH"
> somewhere in the subject line of the email.  Otherwise it goes directly in
> the trash.
>
> <º)))>{   <º)))>{   <º)))>{   <º)))>{   <º)))>{   <º)))>{
>
> Robert S. Fish
> Salzburg, Austria
> 1987 Wolfsburg Vanagon 2.1 GL Weekender
> 1989 Austrian Military Transporter (parts bus)
> 1987 Golf Cabriolet
> 1991 Golf
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ben T" <BenTbtstr8@AOL.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 1:10 PM
> Subject: Friday Fish Rap
>
>
> > Today I was going through PICS I had taken during the month and found
> > something fishy. There was this picture of what seemed like a load of
> elephant tusks.
> > They were loaded into what looks like a Super Special Edition MaroonStar
> T3
> > Caravelle.
> >
> > The MaroonStar Caravelle is one of those Purplish metallic painted T3's
> which
> > do not have the color coordinated bumpers or side body cladding. As a
> matter
> > of fact they are painted to match Fish scales. Silver Fish scales that
is.
> > Check then out. It's at the top right hand corner of the page.
> >
> > http://members.aol.com/bentbtstr8/vanagoncafephotos.html
> >
> > If you think you've figured out what they are, send a note pmail to:
> >
> > fish@SALZBURG.CO.AT with the words "Friday FISH Rap" in the subject
line.
> > Otherwise, my email program will dump your answers in the trash.
> >
> > If that happens, please send me a note to JordanVW@aol.com with note:
> "Super
> > Special Edition MaroonStar T3 Caravelle" in the subject line.
> >
> > Thanks one and all for your cooperation and Happy Friday. May the Fish
be
> > with you.
> >
> > BenT
> > Vanagon Cafe
> >
> > can fish really save as many as 14,000 emails in his mailbox?