Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:09:36 -0800
Reply-To: Robert Fisher <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
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From: Robert Fisher <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
Subject: Re: Heart vs. Head
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I think it may be more that people _dislike_ them to the point that they
don't care to use their proper names; I often call Wal-Mart 'Hell-Mart'
myself. Also apparently some folks have been jumped on in pmail by other
list members for using some brand name or another, which strikes me as
pretty bizarre behavior.
Of course there are those that would say that owning a Vanagon (or two, or
three, or...) qualifies in itself as fundamentally bizarre behavior, so
perhaps the rest are just secondary manifestations? : )
Cya,
Robert
-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Jim Felder
Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 4:36 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Heart vs. Head
There is a tendency among this group, and for all I know society in
general, to fear speaking or writing certain brand names in public. So
much so that ordinary conversations which would have words like
"Toyota" (boy quota) and Harbor Freight and McDonalds and Walmart are
given this spooky extra-earthly dimension by people who apparently
worship these brand to the point that they can't even speak their
names. I think it is giving these brands way too much authority over
our lives, myself.
Jim
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Matt Thyer <matt_thyer@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Please forgive my ignorance, what in tarnation is a " boyquota van"? Even
> google knows not.
>
> MT
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> Jeff Lincoln
> Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 3:43 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Heart vs. Head
>
> Now when I lived in Chicago in '95 our guitar player had a boyquota van. I
> thought it was pretty cool - then years later I met my first Vanagon. I'll
> tell you the Vanagon can hold twice the amount of stuff that boyquota
could.
> I've fit an entire band set up in my old '85. That was an entire pa plus
> gear for two guitarists and a bass player - and more than half of the drum
> set. I was way impressed.
>
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