Interesting this talk about the Schmoo award in Budd = Premack's saga. When I bought my 1984 Westy in California, it had vanity = plates on it which read " 1 Schmooo". I had never heard of the = award before but perhaps my van was a past winner. The first owner had = the plates on it and the guy I bought it from did not know what the plates meant. I just assumed, since the first owner was Assyrian, that it = was a name or meant something in the Persian language.

I live in Colorado so I changed the plates out last year. Maybe I should start a Vanagon List version and award a = plate to whoever has had their Vanagon towed the most times over the last = year. They could proudly display it on their van for the year and pass it on = the following year to the next towing champion. In case of a tie in = number of times towed, most miles could be the tiebreaker. In fact, lets do = it! I guess it being the end of July, prime towing season for Vanagons or at = least for Westfalia's, the year should run from August 1, 2000 to August 1, 2001 = so we can include Budd's tow trips. Let's make August 7th the cutoff for = submitting total times towed and mileage, to accommodate those on vacation = accumulating more towing time.