Date:         Thu, 13 Jul 1995 13:32:06 -0400 (EDT)
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Clark Langstraat <clangstr@bbs.cresnet.org>
Subject:      Re: Joel's Database...



On Thu, 13 Jul 1995, Joel Walker wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Jul 95 10:05:10 CDT Matthew Drahzal said:
> >I am curious...
> 
> yellow??    :)
> 
> >Are there other people, like myself, who remember peoples' Bus-names
> >but not the peoples' names? I will use as an example, "Das Boot" and
> >"Bozo Bus".
> >It would help *me* a great deal if we could get a mapping of vehicle
> >names to people names...Does anybody else feel this way?
> 
> AARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! not the "let's keep Joel busy"
> thread again!!!!
> 
> oh, sure, YOU don't care about MY problems!!!! it's only diskspace, after all,
> right!!! :)
> 
I for one, have resisted naming our Vanagon because family history has 
proven unkind to this type of tradition. I once had a '78 Jeep Cherokee 
that I happily named JP on the day I bought it and happily got it stuck 
in a snowbank (first 4x4 and all that). Two weeks later a rod bearing 
piggybacked and chewed up the lower end (360 V8). Cost to fix? $900+, and 
me a poor college student.

This also applies to any vehicle described by a family member as cute, ie 
'75 Chevy Monza (my mom's) and '78 Renault LeCar ("Gosh, that's a big oil 
puddle" and "The engine's in backwards so the front seal that is leaking 
is really in the back and BTW that'll be $400...if I can find the parts")

So, the Vanagon is simply "the van", or when it needs work "_My_Wife's_Van_"
and the Rabbit is simply "my car" or "_My_$#%&*_Car_".

Sorry, no cutesie names here.

Clark L

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