<p>True, CGM. What if mootson had started earlier to fix the van? What if the mootvan waited until Utah to die? What if mootmom wasn’t so understanding?</p>
<p>I guess it’s all a mootpoint now.</p>
<p>To complete this. I believe there could be a new measurement unit at MIT to compete with the well loved ‘Smoot’. The ‘Moot’=distance the van averaged on this truncated trip between stops for various mechanical dysfunctions. Now, how many Moots to cross the US would it have been after all?</p>
<p>Are we talking about measuring Mootson or the van? I can see Mootson lying down from coast to coast…:)</p>
<p>The mean distance the mootvan travels between breakdowns= a moot. The distance from unknown bay area location to 77 Mass Ave is divided into moots for future reference. Divisions are repainted by fraternity members during vacations. Mootmom has a place carved in lore forever.</p>
<p>Hmm: The breakdowns must occur at regular intervals for the moot metric to work. I prefer having mootson lie down. He is not likely to grow so fast between SF and Cambridge as to render the measure unreliable.</p>
<p>:D Now I truly DO have to print out this thread! :D</p>
<p>I think we have to consult Lambda Chi for official rules, but I could be wrong. I would be inclined to put son and van on a cross country train and let him and friends have some fun with it this semester!!</p>
<p>Anitaw:</p>
<p>I love your solution! And if all fails, the van can be used in the next prank, though the police car on the dome has already been done.</p>
<p>Anitaw that’s an excellent idea. And it’s not too expensive either, at least for cars (not sure about vans). </p>
<p>Mootmom, I think it’s awesome that he gave it a terrific effort, no matter how it worked out. How many people could even attempt that, let alone produce a result where the vehicle actually starts and runs. </p>
<p>Best wishes to S and his gf no matter how they travel to Boston - I hope it’s at least partially by train though - that sounds like fun.</p>
<p>Well, yeah, but… then it wouldn’t be here at my house for me to occasionally drive around (assuming it starts!) and get vicarious thrills, wishing I’d had the gumption to buy one when I was his age. Of course, if I’d bought one when I was his age, the one he’s driving now wouldn’t even have been manufactured yet. Hmm… my head hurts.</p>
<p>Yeah - but - wait a minnit. That’s the way it was going to be anyway; the only thing that has changed is that the van doesn’t seem to want to go east under its own power.</p>
<p>Maybe Cur could be induced to lassoo a few horses and send them on to SF so that the van could have the requisite horsepower to get to Cambridge?</p>
<p>anyone read Zits, the comic strip…that kids van has been in the drivewa for about 2 years…</p>
<p>Yes, but the one in my driveway does run, and is owned by a kid who is motivated to take it back east with him… and who did actually take off, fully loaded, with every intention of making it. It’ll happen… just not this season.</p>
<p>Yeah - but - em, what are WE supposed to do for entertainment, while that van does not make its way to Boston? LOL I need some help understanding the priorities…</p>
<p>hayden and anitaw - brilliance.</p>
<p>I’m thinking of that if the moot is allowed to measure more than one thing (kind of like the foot can measure poetic meter as well as linear inches), we could also use it to measure snafus related to the college admissions/packing/travel/matriculation process. Kid put everything he owned in one suitcase, no insurance, put it on a plane and it disappeared forever? How many moots is that? Kid put the Princeton application in the Yale envelope and the Denison application in the Olin envelope? How many moots is that? Of course, mootmom trying to drive a van that hasn’t been invented yet - that’s a lot of moots.</p>
<p>Wait - I must’ve missed some history - jmmom are you saying this ONE young man did all that???</p>
<p>No, the moots will come in different colors (they do repaint the smoots) to signifcy different snafus (the bedding/packing/traveling/applying, etc…)
So, can we design a different emoticon specifically for moots?</p>
<p>But Mootmom, I’m all set to go to MIT to see the arrival of the Mootvan, whether it is horsedrawn of is able to make it from South Sation to 77 Mass Ave on its own power. Just let me know, and we’ll come with videocamera to record the triumphant arrival. </p>
<p>Go east, young man!</p>
<p>
So, um… would those be emooticons?</p>
<p>/me ducking for cover…</p>
<p>(PS: marite, will that offer still stand in Jan. or Mar. if that’s when the van finally makes the trip? H and I considered taking a couple weeks to meander east with it to deliver to him, but that kinda would ruin the whole point for S of having a roadtrip-worthy vehicle, huh. Pity.)</p>
<p>Sure. Just let me know and we’ll bring the videocamera.</p>
<p>I like the idea of e-moot-icons. Maybe in the shape of a van?</p>