# cattle truck; garbage truck; painted bus *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 11 Feb 1999* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### John Bishop *11 Feb 1999, 08:52* The painted bus sounds like Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters (see _The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test_), or some other '60s bus (I remeber seeing those painted buses and VW minibuses). It was common enough to become a cliche. If anyone's read that book, or one of the other late Beat or early Hippie books, there may be such a sequence of vehicles. -John Bishop ---