Date:         Tue, 7 Jun 2005 08:55:08 -0600
Reply-To:     Aaron Pearson <Aaron.Pearson@GXT.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Aaron Pearson <Aaron.Pearson@GXT.COM>
Subject:      Re: Lighthearted Vanagon content - Boy or Girl?
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would you mend her if she sprang a leak?

my van sprang a leak.  she didn't have to speak, i defended her.

aaron
'87 syncro gl

-----Original Message-----
From: joe trussell [mailto:vanagongl@HOTMAIL.COM] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 8:35 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Lighthearted Vanagon content - Boy or Girl?

My first one was named Bessie.  Her favorite song was "Up on Cripple
Creek"
by The Band.  I'm not sure how that all came about, but I'm sure that
mind alteration had something to do with it.  She was definitely a girl.

My second one was named "Action Van," after a Widespread Panic song
called "Action Man" about a racehorse.  Definitely a male.  Granted, a
Vanagon ain't a racehorse, but that van was a noble steed in many ways.

My new one is yet to be named, but it also seems like a fella.  The name
was almost "Rex," because I was supposed to take delivery on Mardi Gras
day, but I ended up getting it later in the week and had do jettison
that name.  So, I know it's a male, but I don't know what its name is.

If none of this makes sense, I apologize.  I'm just settling in to the
unemployed life and appear to be thinking much more randomly than
before.

Joe T.
'85 Wolfsburg Westy
Denver, CO

>From: Tim Demarest <tim.demarest@POBOX.COM>
>Reply-To: Tim Demarest <tim.demarest@POBOX.COM>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: Lighthearted Vanagon content - Boy or Girl?
>Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 15:58:22 -0400
>
>"Frau Blucher" is definitely female... some of my friends have remarked

>that if I ever lavished as much time, attention and gifts on a living 
>breathing woman, I wouldn't still be single. :-)
>
>At 12:31 PM 6/6/2005 -0700, Trina Lindal wrote:
>>Anyone else out there refer to their V'gon as a boy? I know the 
>>tradition is to call all things mechanical (cars, boats, etc) "she," 
>>but to me, my van is a "he" - nothing feminine about him.
>>
>>I'm sure Greg Potts' **Bob the Tomato** is a boy... or maybe not?
>>
>>/Trina
>>'91 Multivan "Blue" (definitely a boy's name)

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