Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 21:08:42 -0700
Reply-To: Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
Subject: Re: Friday VW limerick (not bus or vanagon
In-Reply-To: <FFDE6872-A084-42AA-A848-913B0263C17F@gmail.com>
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They say he's a lying cuss
Slander about a man and a bus
But he flies so high
And honestly does try
To live up to the name angus
Alistair
> On Jul 10, 2015, at 8:44 PM, Angus Gordon <birdworks@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Though Alistair's rhymes may be lame,
> There's a reason they all sound the same.
> Rolling under the bus,
> His head did concuss.
> He now can't remember his name.
>
>
> Angus
>
>
>> On Jul 10, 2015, at 8:10 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA> wrote:
>>
>> It was with regret that the old man John Dillon
>> Patched the hose that was ceaselessly spillin'
>> Give me a fan and some fins
>> And identical twins
>> I'd be chillin' instead of this fillin'
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> Alistair
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Jul 10, 2015, at 7:30 PM, John Dillon <john@gobusgo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> There once was a fellow named Gus
>>> Who loved to travel by bus
>>> “if i were square
>>> I’d cool by water not air”
>>> but really please don’t make a fuss
>>>
>>>> On Jul 10, 2015, at 10:27 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Ok, right back at you Marc
>>>>
>>>> It was something he knew he should do
>>>> And he thought he would carry some glue
>>>> But when the tank blew that night
>>>> It gave him a terrible fright
>>>> And he cried "je suis Perdue"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Jul 10, 2015, at 7:13 PM, Marc Perdue <mcperdue@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Alistair's rhyme first was lame
>>>>> We all said, oh what a shame
>>>>> He tried it again,
>>>>> Came through in the end,
>>>>> And now we rejoice in his name
>>>>>
>>>>> This stuff ain't easy, is it?
>>>>> Marc Perdue
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 9:34 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
>>>>>> By the side of the road was Godot
>>>>>> Scratching his head and saying oh no
>>>>>> Felder was right
>>>>>> I'll be spending the night
>>>>>> With a van that refuses to go
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Alistair
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Jul 10, 2015, at 6:29 PM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Waiting for Godot...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> He's got an AFM problem, or an ECU problem, or his Vanagon didn't pass emissions, or he van's decide what tires to run, or he can't decide what oil to run.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> And who could blame him?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Jim
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 8:26 PM Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Good one.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Let me try..
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> There was a young man named Estragon
>>>>>>>> Who waited and waited for oh so long
>>>>>>>> "Oh dear Vladimir "
>>>>>>>> "I'm starting to fear"
>>>>>>>> "That Godot has run off with our Vanagon"
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> (Estragon was, strangely, the first rhyming name I could think of. I am not an English major)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Alistair
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Jul 10, 2015, at 6:07 PM, Dake Collins <wuwe423@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> My father wrote this as one of nine “Two’s a crowd” limericks illustrated by John Dempsey and published in Playboy in the late 1950’s.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> A fellow from old Copenhagen
>>>>>>>>> Made a girl in his tiny Volkswagen
>>>>>>>>> The price was quite high:
>>>>>>>>> The shift in his eye,
>>>>>>>>> And a slash from the dash on his noggin.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The other cars in the series are: Mercedes, Corvette, Porsche, Jaguar, Lloyd, Minor, Fiat and Renault.
>>>
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