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Subject:Re: nicknames for generations: THE answer!!! :)
Date:Wed, 5 Oct 94 10:32:06 EDT

> 
> ok, ok. i got it!! :)
> 
> the first generation was called Bulli (which had something to do with a
> german slang name for an ox or draught-horse (that's work-horse to you
> Yanks).
> 
> the second generation was called Bus or Bread-loaf (cause it looked like
> that dancing loaf of bread in the commercials) or Bay-Window (because of
> the huge single piece windshield).
> 
> the third generation was called Vanagons (cause of a bunch of stupid
> advertising twits) or Bricks (cause of the squared-off shaped resemblance
> to said construction material).
> 
> so ... what distinguishes the fourth generation from the others? it PULLS!!!
> so it's a Puller. or Pulley. or Pulli. :)
> 
> joel
> 

Aha! puli, n., a long-haired sheepdog of a Hungarian breed (Amer. Heritage
Dictionary). I once knew one; it was the noisiest yap dog I've ever met.

Neil Wigley
U of Windsor