Date:         Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:09:00 -0700
Reply-To:     neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: turned 200,000 on the odometer!
Comments: To: Ryan Alfonso <vangina@gmail.com>
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I would say find a broken and un-fixable speedometer, and offer it as
a sacrifice to the Vanagon Powers That Be.

I mean isn't it mandatory for the odometer to stop working after 200K Km's??

(all said in jest or course. Congrats!)

Neil. (who will never know the true Km's on his Westy!)

--
Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia -
"Jaco"  (Bustorius)

http://web.mac.com/tubaneil

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On 9/11/07, Ryan Alfonso <vangina@gmail.com> wrote:
> What is the ritualized celebration for this momentous event?  Gotta be some
> way of acknowledging that the distance is more than 8 times the
> circumference of the earth.  What a great trip that would have been.
> Anyway.  Thoughts?
> a.)  change the oil during the light of the next full moon?
> b.) new set of wiper blades that don't "moo" across the windscreen?
> c.) ignore it since miles ain't metric anyway?
> d.) an offering a virgin to the gods of rust?
> e.) do a little dance on the hood (what hood?)?
>
>
> --
> -Ryan in Half Moon Bay
>
> "In my journey to the end of night, I must rely not only on dialectical
> paths of reason. I must have a good solid automobile, one that eschews the
> futile trappings of worldly ennui and asks only for basic maintenance. My VW
> bus offers me this elemental solace, and as interior parts fall off I am
> struck by the realization of their pointlessness. I might not know if the
> window is up or down. It is of no consequence."   JP Sartre, kinda
>