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Subject:Re: Any clever nicknames?
From:Laurence Smith
Date:Sat, 12 Oct 2002 16:07:24 -0400

FANUMBOS:
FANUM is latin for "sanctuary". BOS is a derivative of "bovin" or cow.
So my Westy is my sanctuary but she looks like a cow, and BOS rhymns
with BUS.

The short form of FANUMBOS is FANNY - which my english friends just
love.

Laurence Smith
Hamilton, ON
90 Westy (fanumbos)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List
> [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
> Of Mark Belanger
> Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 3:44 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Any clever nicknames?
>
>
> Greetings all,
>
> It's come time to name my '91 dark blue Westy.  I threw the naming
> effort open to my friends and the two best to come out of
> the group are
> 'Vandalero' and 'Vintage Van Blu'.  Eh...  Adequate, but not truly
> worthy names.
>
> Anyway, it got me wondering what other people have dubbed their
> vehicles.  So let's hear it.  What have you named your vans?
>
>
> -MB
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