Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:12:27 -0500
Reply-To: vt <samcvt@COMCAST.NET>
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From: vt <samcvt@COMCAST.NET>
Subject: Re: vanagon Digest - 23 Apr 2007 (#2007-423)
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HEY! Has no one on this ruddy list ever heard of duct tape, shoe goo, and
plastic ties?
Hell! I'm a ham radio jury rigger with a solid background in navy
mud-mucking, river-swamp diving ...
One makes do with what one has ...
And, I hope that folks don't take my challenge here with too damned much
sensitivity ...
SamC
----- Original Message -----
From: "monte merrick" <montemerrick@speakeasy.net>
To: "vt" <samcvt@COMCAST.NET>
Cc: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 2:58 PM
Subject: Re: vanagon Digest - 23 Apr 2007 (#2007-423)
> now you see, attacking them (pursuant to the first claim and thereafter -
> yon hippies)who dont know, and certainly them as who are too broke to
> afford ye lifestyle maintenance of constant cash-infusiatosis and who can
> but only find such improvisos as them but of smallest purse may procure,
> and who, furthermore tend not to cross swords with others of lo! different
> and exotic faiths, nor to condemn such unto such ridicule as ye yoursleves
> have heretofore done - i must with this writ of chastisement, chastise all
> y'all.
>
> If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it
> to
> him though I drown myself. - henry thoreau
>
> On 24 Apr 2007, , at 12:29, vt wrote:
>
>> Ayah ... Hippie capitalists we wuz ... My entreprenaurial son called his
>> brother early on and they set up a tarp and a bunch of coolers filled
>> with
>> pepparoni and sold that for $1.00 per 4 - 5 slices ...
>>
>> He and I still chuckle about that event ....
>>
>> SamC
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "BJ Feddish" <bfeddish@netreach.net>
>> To: "'vt'" <samcvt@comcast.net>; <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 2:18 PM
>> Subject: RE: Re: vanagon Digest - 23 Apr 2007 (#2007-423)
>>
>>
>>>>> Awww C'mon! Westy is an 84 with the traditional brown paint. <<
>>>
>>> That doesn't count, I have an 83.5 with the same turd brown color.
>>>
>>>
>>>>> I keep threatening to take it down to metal and repaint in a deep
>>>>> metalic
>>> purple ... and have a depiction of Gerry Garcia rising to the sky
>>> through
>>> a
>>> double, mult-colored rainbow ... <<
>>>
>>> That just screams "pull me over officer." After scraping those yin yang
>>> dolphins, etc. off my van and replacing them with an NRA sticker and an
>>> American flag I don't get pulled over anymore for "suspicious vehicle."
>>>
>>>
>>>>> And, at the last Greatful Dead concert up here in Vermont, one of my
>>>>> sons
>>>
>>> and I sold gallons of ice water and "pizza bread" from the rig ....
>>> $2.00
>>> and bring you own bottle for water and 4.00 a piece of pizza - flat
>>> bread
>>> quarters with tomato sauce and greated cheeze, no meat. <<
>>>
>>> Sure, that qualifies you as hippy but I'm afraid constant maintenance
>>> still
>>> disqualifies you from "hippy way of thinking" in terms of van ownership.
>>>
>>> BTW, $2 for water and $4 for a meatless slice of cheese bread does
>>> qualify
>>> you as a capitalist.
>>>
>>> Meatless pizza? Geez, only in VT. Here in PA we'd have to shoot
>>> something
>>> to
>>> put on top of it.
>>>
>>> Bryan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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