Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 16:42:10 -0500
Reply-To: george jannini <georgejoann@GMAIL.COM>
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From: george jannini <georgejoann@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Subwoofer
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Well the bus has taken a dump on us more than once over the years. And
I wouldn't leave home without a portable toilet on board, it's saved my
seat bottom a time or two.
Geo/ATL
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 3:02 PM, TonyCollin <tonycollin@gmail.com> wrote:
> Or on it :)
>
> Hehehe
>
> Tony
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Dec 11, 2013, at 1:23 PM, Jeffrey Vickers <jeff@VICKERSDESIGN.COM>
> wrote:
> >
> > Allistair’s “commode” comment reminds me of the very first Vanagon I
> went to look at to purchase. It was 1993 in Berkeley and this ’88 Westy
> belonged to a German guy that I would describe as a rather large aging
> “euro hippie” with some (ahem) negligence in the grooming dept. Anyway, he
> was very excited to show me the van which was in excellent condition. I had
> been lusting after a Westy for several years by then and more or less knew
> what to look for when looking for one but when I spotted this
> factory-looking box located behind the front passenger seat, I had to ask
> him about it. He lit up like a Christmas tree and spent the next five
> minutes describing the virtues of the Westfalia toilet-box. The first
> minute passed with the few polite nods I could manage for the subject, but
> it started getting a little awkward when he started telling me about all
> the places along the side of the road in America where he had stopped to
> take a poop in his beloved Vanagon.
> >
> > It was a really nice van but I just couldn’t shake the visual. Didn’t
> buy that one but I found a nice Syncro a month later, have had it ever
> since and have never taken a poop in it.
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> >
> >> On Dec 11, 2013, at 6:21 AM, Automatic digest processor <
> LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 00:24:47 -0800
> >> From: Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
> >> Subject:
> =?utf-8?Q?Re:_your_laugh_for_the_day_-_=E2=80=9CThe_Swellegant_S?=
> >> =?utf-8?Q?ubwoofer=E2=80=9D?=
> >>
> >> My friend Simon immediately named it "the commode". Sheesh.
> >>
> >> And hey, aren't you the guy who squeezes out things via a big brass
> tube?
> >>
> >> :)
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >>
> >> Alistair
>
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