Date:         Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:16:25 -0500
Reply-To:     mordo <helmut.blong@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         mordo <helmut.blong@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Fwd: age of listees?
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I will guess that you answered "pessimist."

When I answer that way, I died a few years ago too.
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From: Mike Miller <mwmiller@cwnet.com>
Date: Jan 20, 2007 5:46 PM
Subject: Re: age of listees?
To: mordo <helmut.blong@gmail.com>

I did the death clock and found out I had died July 1993. Boy, what a
relief. That explains a lot of things.

Mike
Still laughing


On 1/20/07 6:19 AM, "mordo" <helmut.blong@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> I am a grateful 40 year old.
>
> The Death Clock (deathclock.com) says I have 32 years left. Perhaps I will
> have a few years left to enjoy my bus after finally solving all of its
> electrical issues...
>
> My family owned VWs exclusively until I was about 10. My mother drove a
> squareback. My mother then moved on to a succession of Volvos. My father's
> first mid-life crisis involved a red Opal GT. His second MLC involved a 69
> Westy that I loved dearly. We made that camper sleep four despite having
> only a single bed up top. I slept in the gear sling/crib over the front
> seats.
>
> While I'm sure it contributed to the demise of one of its engines, I have
> fond memories of my Pops and I towing a 12' daysailer and a canoe on the
> poptop around various Virgina campgrounds. We looked like gypsies, I'm
sure.
> Great Westy.
>
> Another memorable VW experience was rolling a friend's father's 63 Beetle
> after sliding it into a ditch when I was 17. No injuires, gratefully. That
> was the last time my friend asked me to drive...
> --
> mordo
> 1990 Carat
>
>




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mordo
1990 Carat