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Subject:Re: List sticker (and so on, and so forth)...
From:John Rodgers
Date:Thu, 9 Mar 2000 20:20:32 -0600

How about just opting for a windshield banner that says "Wasserleaker List"!
<Grin>

Whups, no fair!! Leaves out the aircooled group. Well maybe they could have a
banner saying "Fanagon List"!!!  -[;<)

Ok, Ok, Ok!!!! Sheesh!, But it's ALMOST Friday!!!

John Rodgers
88GL Driver - still enjoying that new engine.

Alan Bosch wrote:

> Being a contributor to the contest, my views may be slightly skewed.
>
> What I was striving for was something that could be recognized, if not seen
> outright.  The black lettering on a white background on the sticker I
> designed should facilitate easy recognition from a distance.  None of the
> stickers submitted, IMHO, including mine, is going to be read by anyone
> driving their bus towards another bus, with a closing speed approaching 130
> mph.  The only way that can be achieved is to plaster a sticker across the
> top edge of the windshield, from A-pillar to A-pillar, akin to the ones
> that say "No Fear", "Dodge", or (ugh!!) "Camaro".  Those are more
> billboards than stickers.
>
> All the stickers submitted will allow for easy recognition of you, as a
> list member, in a stopped bus.  I mean, who amongst us hasn't parked next
> to another bus in a parking lot that has plenty of other spaces, or
> resulted in walking a mile into the mall?  Or stopped to look at another
> bus that's for sale, just because it's another bus?  Or been to one event
> or another and wondered if the five or six buses you walk past to the gate
> are someone you know?  After all, we all wave to each other anyway, right?
> And we don't now know if they're list members or not.
>
> Just idle ramblings...
>
> Alan Bosch
> & Phred ('88 Wolfsburg)
> Rochester, NY
>
> (I am NOT a graphic designer - nor do I play one on TV)