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Subject:Re: Friday VW limerick (not bus or vanagon
From:Alistair Bell
Date:Fri, 10 Jul 2015 20:10:52 -0700

It was with regret that the old man John Dillon
Patched the hose that was ceaselessly spillin'
Give me a fan and some fins
And identical twins
I'd be chillin' instead of this fillin'

:-)

Alistair

> On Jul 10, 2015, at 7:30 PM, John Dillon <john@gobusgo.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> There once was a fellow named Gus
> Who loved to travel by bus
> “if i were square
> I’d cool by water not air”
> but really please don’t make a fuss
> 
>> On Jul 10, 2015, at 10:27 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA> wrote:
>> 
>> 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.
>