

| Subject: | Re: Pluto and the Westy |
| From: | David Bjorkman |
| Date: | Fri, 26 Aug 2016 16:41:16 -0500 |
<div style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; COLOR: rgb(0, 0, 0); FONT-SIZE: 16px"><div>RIP Pluto.<br />Rotate in peace.<br /><br />Dave B. <br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div style="border-top:1px solid #bcbcbc;margin:5px 0px;"></div><span style="font-size:12;font-family:arial;color:#000000;">On 08/26/16, <span>Stephen Grisanti<bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM></span> wrote:</span><div> </div><div style="font-size:12;font-family:arial;color:#000000;"> As we celebrate the tenth anniversary of Pluto's demotion from planethood we also look back on the week a grey '87 Westy came to live with us. Hard to believe it's been a whole decade and the demotion event was sufficiently cosmic for the van to be named in its honor, but I did not like the Disney connotation of the Pluto name and I had always intended to name a Westy after Greta, our local NPR station's crazy German lady announcer, but Pluto seemed too momentous to be ignored. So the van never got a name and ten years later we just call it "the camper."<br />Guess we need to celebrate and go campering.<br />Stephen<br /></div></div>
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