Date:         Fri, 17 Oct 1997 16:52:11 -0400
Reply-To:     Richard Alexander Palmer <rapalmer@EOS.NCSU.EDU>
Sender:       Vanagon mailing list <Vanagon@Gerry.SDSC.EDU>
From:         Richard Alexander Palmer <rapalmer@EOS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: `NETVERNUGEN'???
Comments: To: Dan Resler <resler@LIBERTY.MAS.VCU.EDU>
In-Reply-To:  Dan Resler <resler@LIBERTY.MAS.VCU.EDU> "`NETVERNUGEN'???" (Oct
              17,  2:16pm)
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On Oct 17,  2:16pm, Dan Resler wrote:
> OK, I give up. I bought one of Richard's mugs and have been puzzled
> about the word NETVERNUGEN written across the top - what does it mean?
> I asked a friend of mine who is a German native plus she teaches
> German here at VCU and she replied that she had no idea. Is it a
> (misspelled) take off from `fahrvergnugen', which means, I believe,
> "driving joy" or "joy of driving"? i.e. is it suppose to indicate joy
> of netting (vanagon list joy?) or something like that?

It is indeed a take-off on fahrvergnu:gen, or driving (fahren) pleasure
(vergnu:gen)
bastardized into net (internet) vergnu:gen, or internet pleasure, or some silly
Americanized thing like that...
Anyway, for everyone else who wants to see and understand this, I have plenty
more mugs and stickers for sale. Feel free to buy some, as I still haven't
quite
broken even yet...
:(
HAppy Friday!

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