John Huebbe Senior Moderator Location: St. Peters, MO Join Date: 08/31/2012 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 283 Rally Car: 1970 VW Beetle & 1991 Subaru Legacy |
Tim Meunier Ultra Moderator Location: Boston, MA Join Date: 10/27/2011 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 252 Rally Car: 96 Subaru Impreza |
Why do they call you JVL and not 'The ham'?
Tim. |
John Vanlandingham Junior Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
No idea really. JRV would be correct but I've never used the R ever. I've been called---in chronological order-- Juanito Juan Juan Ricardo Johnny Johnny Pineapple John John Vanland-damn-your-soul-sonnavabitch-why-dontcha-get-an-easier-name? (7th Grade PE Coach, so lay on a big southern drawl) Jon Gubben Jan van Vurpa Jean Jeanno Johnny Gianni (pronouced exactly the same as the French "Johnny"
John Fuckin Vanlandingham Fuckhead (best employer I ever had, he paid me well, so fine with me) "Tall Person" (Hottest gawddamn Professor ever, glasses and 5 foot, yeow!) John Zhang Wei Han No idea where JVL comes from. John Vanlandingham Sleezattle, WA, USA Vive le Prole-le-ralliat www.rallyrace.net/jvab CALL +1 206 431-9696 Remember! Pacific Standard Time is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time. |
Wilson von Kessler Junior Moderator Location: Lookout Mountain, GA Join Date: 02/28/2006 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 1,127 Rally Car: Colts are in Finland; now '87 325i, '89 325i |
And many more that can't be mentioned . . . "Talk about drugs. Driving a car like that, going that fast, it’s like all the drugs at once." - Tommy Byrne "Now, Pinky, if by any chance you are captured during this mission, remember you are Gunther Heindriksen from Appenzell. You moved to Grindelwald to drive the cog train to Murren. Can you repeat that?" - The Brain |
Stinkfinger Lipschitz Mega Moderator Location: Uranus Join Date: 02/17/2008 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 325 |
Johnny Pineapple? Sounds Hawaiian. What's the story behind that one? It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion. William Ralph Inge TANSTAAFL |
Anders Green Godlike Moderator Location: Raleigh, NC Join Date: 03/30/2006 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 1,478 Rally Car: Parked |
Dude! That's the same one that got me! Johnny Pineapple it is!  Grassroots rally. It's what I think about. |
Michel Hoche-Mong Godlike Moderator Location: Campbell, CA Join Date: 02/28/2006 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 1,156 Rally Car: Golf, Golf, RX-3 |
John Vanlandingham Junior Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
My Mom's side of the family all grew up in the wild jungles of Panama about 10 miles from the Columbia border. and both my brother and sister were born in Panama...hence the in-house name Juan Ricardo since Spanish was allegedly my original language. When I was about ready to start Kindergarten my Mom's only brother came up from Panama to live with us and "pick up English" for a year before joining the US Army. So for a year rather than me going to Kindergarten, I ran around Corpus Christi Texas which Alfredo aka "Uncle Freddy" and learned a lot about looking at life from a different perspective than your average kid in the 50s. He's tell me stories about 2 week camping trips in the foothills of the Darien Gap armed with a big knife, a .22 and a pancho (it IS a tropical rain forest), about hearing Jaguars, working hard to buy a Thompson re-chambered to .22 (For dinner you listen to the sounds in the trees, and Brr-rrrr-rrrrrap bap bap! 20 monkeys! ther's your dinner!). Evidently the name Pineapple is an affectionate name relatively common In Panama. Freddy himself went by that when he met his future wife at a dance in DC in 1960. She was from West Virginia and when she said her name was Beaulah Mae Cannaberry he said (he'd picked up a Texas twang on top of his Spanish accent) "well, hell! If your name is Beaulah Mae Cannaberry, then my name must be Johnny Can-of-Pineapples. Through their 2 marriages he was never Freddy, always Johnny... Decades later you guys with any memory cells might recall that our former buddy, and favorite, our own CIA agent (on the unofficial payroll since the 50s--on the official payroll since around 1967) in the Panamanian Presidency was named Manuel "Pineappleface" Noriega..Our man till he got uppity and became the only person in history to have been indicted in a US Court for actions alleged to have happened soley in another country--where the writ of US law does not extend---and only time the US military has invaded an ally and killed hundreds of that allied country's citizens to arrest a single person...idicted for drug charges--but held as a "Prisoner-of-war".. John Vanlandingham Sleezattle, WA, USA Vive le Prole-le-ralliat www.rallyrace.net/jvab CALL +1 206 431-9696 Remember! Pacific Standard Time is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time. |
Stinkfinger Lipschitz Mega Moderator Location: Uranus Join Date: 02/17/2008 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 325 |
Aaron Gibson Senior Moderator Location: South Burlington, VT Join Date: 08/27/2012 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 83 Rally Car: Cars are lame, I have a motorcycle |
I've always loved you..... now put on that maids outfit....... Damn, wrong forum again, sorry. Anyway, it's been interesting to watch all the drama unfold. I've been around the rally world since 99 and all the "New" developments, seem all to familiar to me. Enter rich guy with big pile of cash and big ideas...... two years later, gone without a trace. On one hand, I feel bad hating on a guy trying to improve a sport we all obviously love but shake my head wondering WTF they're thinking. Not 2 months ago, the RA fan bois had a pretty unified front but lately, the armor seems to be washing away. In reality, I think OBI Wa....... NASA is our only hope JVL, I've enjoyed your posts over the years, you've made me laugh many times. |
"oh! you're the one!" Ultra Moderator Location: Hazel Dell, WA Join Date: 02/22/2008 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 1,390 Rally Car: 1974 Dodge Colt, under construction |
oh, there were a handful I wanted to like, just none of them were his 
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Don Kennedy Senior Moderator Location: Reading, PA Join Date: 10/05/2006 Age: Fossilized Posts: 227 Rally Car: Impreza |
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