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Subject:Re: Any clever nicknames?
From:John Rodgers
Date:Sat, 12 Oct 2002 17:20:34 -0500

How about Fanny May after a pretty little gal from Tennessee. She always
said May was her family name but the Fanny was for show!

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

Laurence Smith wrote:
>
> 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
> > --
> > ____________________________________________________________
> > ___________
> > Mark Belanger - belanger@fluid.com
> >