I'll take the long haired tuba players.  AND I don't care if they
outrank[ed] me or have bigger feet.  Have to agree on the facial hair since
I have a full beard, which is getting quite light in color.

Mike

85 Westy theft proofed by leaving it ugly method.
NO southern accent even though I am southern:  Born in southern Minnesota,
grew up in southern California

> From: Joel Walker <jwalker17@EARTHLINK.NET>
> Organization: not likely
> Reply-To: Joel Walker <jwalker17@EARTHLINK.NET>
> Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 23:28:01 -0500
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Looking for a Vanagon kind of wife
>
>> Hey,,,this is also for the Vanagon Women,,...we do not want just any
> ole
>> mechanical type guys....they have to be sensative,
>
> well ... does cursing a blue streak when you cut/hit your thumb count
> as "sensitive"?? :)
>
>> caring
>
> oh, i definitely care. i care about food, money, buses, tires, buses,
> luggage rack seals, buses, weed eaters, stupid pine straw that covers
> my yard, kudzu, food, money, buses, weather, price of gasoline ....
> lots of stuff. :)
>
>> and loaded with lots of money to finance all those trips...
>
> ah.
>
> well.
>
> ok, you got me on that one. :(
>
>> and hey ..if they can afford a new Eurovan I would call that a
> definate plus...
>
> sheesh!! there's a new silver 7-passenger Eurovan, sitting on the
> local dealer's lot. 200hp v6, disc brakes front AND rear ... ONLY
> $27,000!! (he'll probably take a lot less ... the last one sat on his
> lot for 14 months!).  i was going to go hassle the salescum and test
> drive it yesterday, but managed to pull a muscle in my back while
> mowing the lawn. :(
>
>> I could be a Eurovan wife fairly easily...
>
> hmmm. kinda wishy-washy, ain't yuh?? ;)
>
>> of course, I cannot speak for all the women
>> out there ......but I'm here... a matchmaker just waiting for her
>> assignment......I expected to come home and find more
>> e-mail....geeze...mail in your descriptions and help me with the
> Vanagon
>> Love List....(descriptions of Vanagons being the most important of
>> course)...sb
>
> ok, here goes ...
>
> name: Unca Joel (aka Grumpy, the only one of the seven dwarves to wise
> up and        get out of that stupid mine. wasn't diamonds anyway,
> just quartz. and all that
> "hi ho, hi ho" crap was driving me bonkers!).
> age:    Old as the Hills (snow-covered hills, that is)
> race:   Not any more. gave it up ... got too many tickets and burned
> up too many         clutches. too old to go fast anymore. :(
> sex:    not lately. why do you think i'm looking for a wife!!!????
> body type: somewhat endomorphic mesomorph. :) kinda like a 5-4-1
> hobbies: listening to music, working on vanagons, driving vanagons,
> looking for
> vanagons on the internet.
> education: able to read and write Ameri-English; can also speak it,
> but with
> (some folks say) slight decernable Suthern accent. can mimic
> genuine
> English (London area) accent, as well as Australian (Sydney area)
> accent.
> not real good on the German accent. French and Italian are
> pitiful.
> got my 3R's (reading, riting, rednecking) in Alabama; managed to
> matriculate
> my way through a state university in only 13 years (time out for
> an extended             sabbatical tour of southeast Asia, studying
> its culture, peoples, flora, fauna,
> and various means of destruction there unto). am able to read
> street signs, maps,     AND ask for directions! :)
> religious affiliation: no. they all seem to want my money.
> military service: Army. seemed like a long time to me.
> means of support: working as pitiful computer support semi-geek for
> that same state     university; used to be computer programmer til
> mainframes and Cobol went out
> of style. :(
> annual income: barely enough to keep three buses, a lawn mower, a weed
> eater (with     small bush blade), and a chain saw running. oh, and
> provide sufficient calories to
> maintain my corpulent figure. still paying for foolish mistakes,
> of various types, in     the past.
>
> but enough about me ... here's what *I*'m looking fer!!!!
>
> name: i'm pretty flexible on this ... but wimmen named Adolf or Butch
> are waaaay
> down on my list of 'possibles'!!!
> age:  somewhat close to my own age. don't want nobody younger than 45
> or 50.
> i find it very frustrating, trying to carry on a conversation with
> people who have         no idea who Franklin Roosevelt or Nikita
> Khrushchev were, much less Cotton         Mather, Herman Melville, and
> such folks as those.
> race:  nope. don't want nobody wearing them funny overalls and helmets
> and
> googles running loose in MY house!
> sex:  hopefully!!! :) but none of that hot-monkey stuff ... my back
> won't take it.
> body type: hmmm. preferably ectomorphic. petite. someone who does not
> tower
> over me and my buses. but tall enough to climb into a bus by her
> lonesome.
> strong enough to tote farwood and laundry. :)
> hobbies: almost anything BUT singing and/or playing of certain musical
> instruments
> (even if practiced!! tuba players are especially NOT wanted).
> cooking would be
> a nice plus (otherwise, we gwin be eating out a lot).
> education: able to read and write in at least English or
> Ameri-English; some college
> preferred; graduate degrees count against ya.
> religious affiliation: i tolerate most religions, so long as they
> ain't asking for money
> or my soul, and worship doesn't involve snakes or chickens or a
> lot of hopping
> up and down and around.
> military service: ok by me. as long as she doesn't/didn't outrank me
> (i ain't saluting
> nobody anymore).
> means of support: yes, that would be helpful. very helpful.
> annual income:  oh, a couple of million a year ought to do it. :)
> other specifications ...
> a. orphans and only-children given preference. don't want no in-laws
> at my age.
> b. must have own bus. ain't getting none of mine. if it's not a
> camper, she can have
> the garage, though.
> c. can't have feet (or biceps) bigger than mine. i've got size 10
> feet. biceps are
> smaller.
> d. can't have more facial hair than me. that includes nose and ears.
> e. no tattoos bigger than a quarter. and none visible when wearing
> bathing suits.
> f. hair should not be longer than shoulder-length (too much chance of
> getting
> it caught in the fan belts. i hate it when that happens).
>
>
> soooo ... anybody interested?? :)
>