Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 07:42:04 -0800
Reply-To: Mike Miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Mike Miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
Subject: Re: Roadside Troubles while on Vacationing
In-Reply-To: <C1C4BDFF.2ADF%npoole@telus.net>
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Shades of Unca Joel.
Wish it wasn't so true, now can you add the woes of the syncro clan?
Mike
On 1/6/07 2:46 AM, "Nathaniel Poole" <npoole@TELUS.NET> wrote:
> I couldn't resist...
>
>
> The (Wasser)Boxer
>
>
> I am just a poor boy and my story's seldom told
> I've squandered my money on a watercooled old vanagon, such is dementia
> All squirts and drips, still a man hears what he wants to hear
> And disregards the puddles, hmmmm
>
> Li la li...
>
> When I left my home on a vacation, It was in an 87 vanagon
> with a Bentley manual
> It blew out in an intersection, runnin bad
> In a fury, seeking out the shops where the waterboxers go
> Looking for the techies only they would know
>
> Li la li...
>
> Needing only a pair of new heads, I come lookin for a repair, but I get no
> respect
> Just a comeon from a dealer in the Auto Mall
> I do declare, you can have this squirting van; I should have bought myself
> an aircooled.
>
> Li la li...
>
> But the dealer doesn't want it, he isn't such a fool
> I am older than I once was, and regret my puddle van, that's not unusual
> No it isn't strange, part after part, it's still a water gusher
> 3 thousand dollars later it is more or less the same
>
> Li la li...
>
> And Iım laying out some more cash, wishing it was stolen, chopped and burned
> And the @#$% mechanic isn't bleedin me, leadin me to bankruptcy
>
> In the clearing stands a waterboxer, and the owner with his chequebook
> And he carries a receipt of every part that let him down or stranded him
> and he shouts out in his anger and his shame
> I'll get an aircooled an aircooled, as the waterboxer dies
> yet again, yet again
>
> Li la li...
>
>
>
> May PS and AG forgive me.
>
> Nathaniel
>
>
> On 1/5/07 10:43 PM, "Keith Ovregaard" <kovregaard@COMCAST.NET> wrote:
>
>> Hey, that's good Nathaniel! Janice use to live a few blocks from here
>> and is a local legend.
>>
>> Keith O.
>> 90 Westy Syncro "VikingWagen"
>> Past VeeDubs in the family
>> 1984 Westy "Brownie"
>> 1980 PU diesel
>> 1979 Rabbit
>> 1963? 23 window Splitty
>> 1965 Bus
>> 1969 Bus
>> 1959 Bug
>>
>>
>> On Jan 5, 2007, at 8:15 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 16:44:51 -0800
>>> From: Nathaniel Poole <npoole@TELUS.NET>
>>> Subject: Re: Roadside Troubles while on Vacationing
>>>
>>> They might last longer, but then you would have to buy more parts.
>>> Maybe
>>> it's good they often go with a colossal bang and splash, saves the old
>>> bank
>>> account.
>>>
>>> Freedom's just another word for having an aircooled van,
>>> And a van's not worth nothin' honey but it's aircooled,
>>> And feeling good was easy, Lord, with that aircooled sound,
>>> Driving one was good enough for me,
>>> Good enough for me and my main squeeze.
>>>
>>> Sung to the tune of Me and Bobby McGee :)
>>>
>>> Nathaniel
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