Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 20:44:34 -0700
Reply-To: Angus Gordon <birdworks@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Angus Gordon <birdworks@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Friday VW limerick (not bus or vanagon
In-Reply-To: <660A2DC8-A2D0-4CE2-8498-F1697961440D@shaw.ca>
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Though Alistair's rhymes may be lame,
There's a reason they all sound the same.
Rolling under the bus,
His head did concuss.
He now can't remember his name.
Angus
> On Jul 10, 2015, at 8:10 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA> wrote:
>
> It was with regret that the old man John Dillon
> Patched the hose that was ceaselessly spillin'
> Give me a fan and some fins
> And identical twins
> I'd be chillin' instead of this fillin'
>
> :-)
>
> Alistair
>
>
>
>
>> On Jul 10, 2015, at 7:30 PM, John Dillon <john@gobusgo.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> There once was a fellow named Gus
>> Who loved to travel by bus
>> “if i were square
>> I’d cool by water not air”
>> but really please don’t make a fuss
>>
>>> On Jul 10, 2015, at 10:27 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA> wrote:
>>>
>>> Ok, right back at you Marc
>>>
>>> It was something he knew he should do
>>> And he thought he would carry some glue
>>> But when the tank blew that night
>>> It gave him a terrible fright
>>> And he cried "je suis Perdue"
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Jul 10, 2015, at 7:13 PM, Marc Perdue <mcperdue@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Alistair's rhyme first was lame
>>>> We all said, oh what a shame
>>>> He tried it again,
>>>> Came through in the end,
>>>> And now we rejoice in his name
>>>>
>>>> This stuff ain't easy, is it?
>>>> Marc Perdue
>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 9:34 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
>>>>> By the side of the road was Godot
>>>>> Scratching his head and saying oh no
>>>>> Felder was right
>>>>> I'll be spending the night
>>>>> With a van that refuses to go
>>>>>
>>>>> Alistair
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Jul 10, 2015, at 6:29 PM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Waiting for Godot...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> He's got an AFM problem, or an ECU problem, or his Vanagon didn't pass emissions, or he van's decide what tires to run, or he can't decide what oil to run.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And who could blame him?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jim
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 8:26 PM Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
>>>>>>> Good one.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Let me try..
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There was a young man named Estragon
>>>>>>> Who waited and waited for oh so long
>>>>>>> "Oh dear Vladimir "
>>>>>>> "I'm starting to fear"
>>>>>>> "That Godot has run off with our Vanagon"
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> (Estragon was, strangely, the first rhyming name I could think of. I am not an English major)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Alistair
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Jul 10, 2015, at 6:07 PM, Dake Collins <wuwe423@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> My father wrote this as one of nine “Two’s a crowd” limericks illustrated by John Dempsey and published in Playboy in the late 1950’s.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> A fellow from old Copenhagen
>>>>>>>> Made a girl in his tiny Volkswagen
>>>>>>>> The price was quite high:
>>>>>>>> The shift in his eye,
>>>>>>>> And a slash from the dash on his noggin.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The other cars in the series are: Mercedes, Corvette, Porsche, Jaguar, Lloyd, Minor, Fiat and Renault.
>>
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