Aren't we getting a new moderator?  A *female* moderator?
And you are doing the dead cat thing?
Kripes man, we're  going to wind up having to clear everything through Emily Post if you keep on like that.
Tom Salicos
;0)

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> I love to hear from Matthew Pollard and the fellow that owns Road Cow, Britt
> Grannis.
> They all tell me that you can't swing a dead cat in the Northwest without
> hitting a VW Van or Vanagon.
> I've been freezing all my dead cats with the hopes that I'll be able to make
> a road trip to the Great Northwest and utilize my inventory of dead cats.
> Now that I hear about all the Vans, uses and Vanagons in Corvallis, I'll
> definitely route thru area and swing a few your way.
> OH! By the way ............. frozen dead cats make dents so remember to duck
> if you see me and a dead cat coming at you.
>
> Stan Wilder
> www.engineceramics.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Harvey"
> To:
> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 10:57 AM
> Subject: Re: VW van count
>
>
> > Come to Corvallis, Oregon. I typically see about 10 Westfalia Vanagons
> and 10 Vanagons per day. All on the road, driving. I suspect Corvallis has
> one of the highest Vanagons/Westfalias per capita in the United States (only
> 50,000 people). Heck, there are 6 Vanagons within a single block radius of
> my house (I own only one of those), 3 being Westys. Those numbers would be
> 7 and 4 if my Westy weren't parked in Portland.
> >
> > In recent years Corvallis has also been in the top three for patents per
> capita. Maybe there's a correlation? Didn't A. G. Bell drive a
> ................?
> >
> > The Shaws wrote:
> > Saw more in Portland OR this weekend than I have seen in Spokane in 10
> yrs.
> >
> > peter
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mike Miller"
> > To:
> > Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 9:21 PM
> > Subject: Re: VW van count
> >
> >
> > How many of them run?
> >
> > Mike in Sacramento
> >
> >
> > On 8/9/04 7:37 PM, "Aristotle Sagan" wrote:
> >
> > > There are three in my driveway.
> > >
> > > tim in san jose
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Mike Miller"
> > > To:
> > > Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 6:30 PM
> > > Subject: Re: VW van count
> > >
> > >
> > > There are four within four blocks of me that I know of, in Sacramento.
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> > > On 8/9/04 6:12 PM, "mark seifert" wrote:
> > >
> > >> On a recent trip home from work through Downtown Sacramento, I spotted
> > > about
> > >> 7 Vanagons. I know of 6 right off hand that live within a 10-block
> radius
> > > of
> > >> my house. They're everywhere around here.
> > >>
> > >>> From: Stephen Grisanti
> > >>> Reply-To: Stephen Grisanti
> > >>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > >>> Subject: Re: VW van count
> > >>> Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 17:32:58 -0700
> > >>>
> > >>> On a recent business trip to New Orleans I spotted 5;
> > >>> a burgundy one in the French quarter, a silver one
> > >>> passing my hotel one morning, a white syncro near the
> > >>> western terminus of the St. Charles streetcar line and
> > >>> two (1 yellow/white, 1 two-tone blue) on the lot of
> > >>> Donated Vehicles For Sale on Canal Street (spotted
> > >>> from that streetcar). Interestingly, all were hardtop
> > >>> passenger vans. Also at the DVFS lot, it looked like
> > >>> a dad and son were stopped for a look and the teenaged
> > >>> boy was pasted up against the side of the blue van
> > >>> seriously checking it out.
> > >>>
> > >>> Stephen
> > >>>
> > >>> --- Rob wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> Took a drive out to the coast, just happened to
> > >>>> count VW vans on the round
> > >>>> trip.
> > >>>> 9 VW's & 1 Eurovan.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Rob
> > >>>>
> > >>>> becidawa@hctc.com
> > >>>> Now in western Washington, USA
> > >>>> ps/ FWIW saw 57 Subarus & 5 of the older Toyota vans
> > >>>> (the ones that looked
> > >>>> different).
> > >>>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
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