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Subject:Re: Friday Frivolity: "Bus" vs. "Van"
From:Tyrone Greene
Date:Sat, 21 Nov 1998 18:55:27 -0500

Sorry Guys and Gals, but since I'm one of a number of folks on this List
that actualy drive a bus, my vanagons, to me and mine, are vans not
bus's.

Tyrone
Big Pine Key, FL
87 GL Syncro
etc....

Joel Walker wrote:
>
> 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. :)