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Subject:Re: Friday VW limerick (not bus or vanagon
From:Alistair Bell
Date:Fri, 10 Jul 2015 19:27:20 -0700

Ok, right back at you Marc

It was something he knew he should do
And he thought he would carry some glue
But when the tank blew that night
It gave him a terrible fright
And he cried "je suis Perdue"

> On Jul 10, 2015, at 7:13 PM, Marc Perdue <mcperdue@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Alistair's rhyme first was lame
> We all said, oh what a shame
> He tried it again,
> Came through in the end,
> And now we rejoice in his name
> 
> This stuff ain't easy, is it?
> Marc Perdue
> 
>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 9:34 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
>> 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.