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Subject:Re: Friday Frivolity: "Bus" vs. "Van"
From:BILL
Date:Fri, 20 Nov 1998 16:38:59 -0700

Magic Bus says it all

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Bill
'85 GL [*Magic*Bus*]
'82 Westy [FreeBird] ...cause I'm as free as a bird now...
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-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Walker <JWALKER@UA1VM.UA.EDU>
To: vanagon@VANAGON.COM <vanagon@VANAGON.COM>
Date: Friday, November 20, 1998 1:22 PM
Subject: Re: Friday Frivolity: "Bus" vs. "Van"

On Fri, 20 Nov 1998 11:36:30 -0800 Chris Paquette said:
>I dislike referring to my '88 Westie as a "van" - I prefer to call it a
>"bus".  For some reason, "bus" has a better karmic feeling to it.  To me,
>the word "van" conjures up images of an old Chevy cargo van with a broken
>8-track player, duct tape over the windows and a hostage in the back.
>Definitely a "bus" man, myself.  You?

to me, it's a bus or a Vanagon ... not a van. sometimes "my truck", but
mostly "The Bus". when i don't call it by its own name, that is. :)