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Subject:Re: Friday VW limerick (not bus or vanagon
From:Alistair Bell
Date:Fri, 10 Jul 2015 18:34:53 -0700

By the side of the road was Godot
Scratching his head and saying oh no
Felder was right
I'll be spending the night
With a van that refuses to go

Alistair

> On Jul 10, 2015, at 6:29 PM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Waiting for Godot...
> 
> He's got an AFM problem, or an ECU problem, or his Vanagon didn't pass emissions, or he van's decide what tires to run, or he can't decide what oil to run. 
> 
> And who could blame him?
> 
> Jim
> 
>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 8:26 PM Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
>> Good one.
>> 
>> Let me try..
>> 
>> There was a young man named Estragon
>> Who waited and waited for oh so long
>> "Oh dear Vladimir "
>> "I'm starting to fear"
>> "That Godot has run off with our Vanagon"
>> 
>> (Estragon was, strangely, the first rhyming name I could think of. I am not an English major)
>> 
>> Alistair
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> > On Jul 10, 2015, at 6:07 PM, Dake Collins <wuwe423@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
>> >
>> > My father wrote this as one of nine “Two’s a crowd” limericks illustrated by John Dempsey and published in Playboy in the late 1950’s.
>> >
>> > A fellow from old Copenhagen
>> > Made a girl in his tiny Volkswagen
>> >        The price was quite high:
>> >        The shift in his eye,
>> > And a slash from the dash on his noggin.
>> >
>> > The other cars in the series are: Mercedes, Corvette, Porsche, Jaguar, Lloyd, Minor, Fiat and Renault.