I came up with 'Funagon', but she says that sounds more like 'fun is gone'.
That kinda describes our different views of the westy ...

|> -----Original Message-----
|> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
|> Of John Rodgers
|> Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 18:21
|> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
|> Subject: Re: Any clever nicknames?
|>
|>
|> 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
|> > >