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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)
Comments: To: monte merrick <montemerrick@speakeasy.net>
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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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