Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 19:51:30 -0800
Reply-To: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Are Vanagons pretty?
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That must have been a real jolt Ben - I still miss Snailboi too.
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:15 AM, BenT Syncro <syncro@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was at American Fencer's Supply to pick-up a chest protector. It's a kind
> of plastic 'skidplate' to dampen the impact when someone jabs a 3 foot long
> steel rod at your sternum. Anyway, I'm looking at wonderment at this
> flexible device with straps over the shoulder and around the chest. It
> looked like a flat version of Madonna's bustier. Right in the middle was a
> sticker that said "Made in New Zealand".
>
> Hey, I thought. Coincidental that I was eating a kiwi at the time.
>
> I put the device down and picked up another. I'm in the fruitPhone this
> time. Wow! I had 59 unfinished drafts. {click} {delete}. {click} {delete}.
> {click} {delete}. Too late to post those, I thought. By the time I got to
> the 4th one, I was taken aback.
>
> It might be late but I hope that in his own way, my old friend might read
> my answer. It was meant for him but shared with the List. Now everytime some
> angry guy comes charging at me with a foil or saber, and everytime I stab a
> spoon into that green fruit, I will miss my Canadian Kiwi friend -- just a
> little bit more.
>
>
> BenT
>
>
> written 4 months before that fateful day
>
> On Feb 28, 2010, at 1:36 PM, Andrew Grebneff <goose1047@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >>
> >
> > Not like the Split, which was pretty in any color or condition. But far
> more
> > attractive than the Bay, which was always a bit homely... possibly
> because it was just a new cab tacked onto a Split body.
>
> Snail beauty is in the eye of the musselholder. I'll bet most cavemen
> thought that ancient <insert name of prehistoric shellfish> was just some
> ugly thing which was good to eat. Show it to Snaiboi today and his legs fall
> out from under him at the relatively beauty of this species.
>
> >
> It's no different for cars and VW vans. They look fine new. Goes through
> the cycle if just looking OK an even uglyjunky that they devalue next to
> nothing. As they get older, they grow on us and start to look pretty to the
> point of being considered gorgeous. Value starts to climb exceeding their
> original as new prices. Some 9-year old kid would take one look at it and
> say, "Wow, they sure made some gorgeous vans back in the olden days. Nuthin'
> like these fusion powered garbage suckers that we see now. Heck these
> beautiful beasties they called Vanagons used REAL fossil fuel! Beautiful!
> I'm getting one just as soon as I get my PhD in engineering next year. Just
> beautiful."
>
>
> BenT
>
--
Jake
1984 Vanagon GL 1.9 WBX - 'The Grey Van'
1986 Westy Weekender/2.5 SOHC Subie - 'Dixie'
Crescent Beach, BC
www.thebassspa.com
www.crescentbeachguitar.com
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