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Subject:Re: Friday VW limerick (not bus or vanagon
From:Angus Gordon
Date:Fri, 10 Jul 2015 20:44:34 -0700

Though Alistair's rhymes may be lame,
There's a reason they all sound the same.
Rolling under the bus,
His head did concuss.
He now can't remember his name.

Angus

> On Jul 10, 2015, at 8:10 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA> wrote:
> 
> 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.
>>

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