Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 20:10:52 -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: <7127A486-C84F-4D09-B647-F31AE24DEA81@gobusgo.com>
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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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