you can talk about anything under the sun on my vanagon yahoo group.
http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/turbovans/

no restrictions except don't be nasty.
Topic, content and length are basically 'free'.
Scott
turbovans

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Elliott" <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 5:47 PM
Subject: Re: Are Today's Young People Mechanical Nitwits?

> On 8/15/2008 5:01 PM Oliver Mueller-Heubach wrote:
>
>> Sorry. Diarrhea of the mouth/keyboard. Studying for doctoral exams
>
> It shows!
>
>> and guess it has me in an ornery mood.
>
> Or in a frame of mind to present a good argument. Thanks for not
> including a references section, though.
>
>> Shutting up now.
>
> No need to shut up -- just match the speech to the forum. Here we talk
> Vanagons.
>
> <Jams hands into pockets, and whistles tunelessly while rocking back and
> forth on feet. Acting all innocent and everything as if he himself had
> never been guilty of the sin of going Off-Topic on a buff* forum.>
>
> =====================
> * See meaning #4, below.
>
> buff(1) /b?f/ -noun
> 1.      a soft, thick, light-yellow leather with a napped surface,
> originally
> made from buffalo skin but later also from other skins, used for making
> belts, pouches, etc.
> 2.      a brownish-yellow color; tan.
> 3.      a buff stick or buff wheel.
> 4.      a devotee or well-informed student of some activity or subject:
> Civil
> War buffs avidly read the new biography of Grant.
>
> --
>
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
> KG6RCR