Date:         Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:59:07 -0700
Reply-To:     "Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\" Elliott" <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         "Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\" Elliott" <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: 60 years ago this week
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Ping pong. Ben invented ping pong -- name was taken from his last name
"Pon." Returning from Manchuria in 1947, ol' Ben opened the first ping
pong parlor in Duluth. By a curious coincidence a salesman from China
brought the game back to China, and by the early 70's the Chinese were
all over it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/punked

Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
KG6RCR

On 7/31/2007 2:19 PM Scott Daniel - Shazam wrote:

> Started what ball rolling ?
> Vw's in the US or something like that  ?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> Alistair Bell
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 7:41 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: 60 years ago this week
>
> The list is pretty quiet about this big birthday.
>
> Old Ben Pon started the ball rolling 60 years ago this weak.
>
> huzzahs!
>
> Alistair
>
>
>
> '82 westy, diesel converted to gas in '94
> http://www.members.shaw.ca/albell/
>