It was not intended to be bait and switch. You guys are lucky to find this kind of variety in posts and besides, someone has to feed y'all the occasional straight line. Stephen --- Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > Or drinking and camping... > > On 7/28/07, Wesley Pegden <wes@cs.uchicago.edu> > wrote: > > > > Here I was assuming this was going to be an email > about an engine fire... > > > > Stephen Grisanti wrote: > > > "I climbed into Kate and Dave's Vanagon in the > > > morning..." > > > > > > You read about them on web pages. You read about > them > > > in blogs and in the Bentley and, of course, you > read > > > about them here but you seldom come across the > mention > > > of one on the printed page in casual reading. > > > > > > I picked up a copy of "The Unsavvy Traveler," a > > > collection of travel writings, and in "The > Mongrels" > > > by Novella Carpenter paragraph three begins with > the > > > above words. That's about it for > Vanagon-specific > > > narrative, but it's an okay yarn and there's > later > > > mention of an interesting demise involving a > different > > > van. > > > > > > Stephen > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > > > Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the > Internet in your pocket: > > mail, news, photos & more. > > > http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Jake > 1984 Vanagon GL > 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie" > www.crescentbeachguitar.com >
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