I guess you Yankee guys missed out on the "sword" era didn't you? They were
sort of going out of fashion when you appeared. It's no wonder you ended up
evolving differently with funny screw threads, weak electricity and washing
machines with no heaters. Although that could also be put down to a serious
lack of Marmite in the diet. Try repairing your broadsword with US standard
threads and a 110v soldering iron, huh!
Andrew (banished in exile to Palo Alto CA USA)
'60 Healey 3000 Mk.I
'96 Land-Rover 4000
> From mgs-owner@triumph.cs.utah.edu Mon Oct 2 03:19:48 1995
> Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 02:34:36 -0700 (PDT)
> From: David Simpson <davids@CyberGate.COM>
> To: mgs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Driving on the left?
> In-Reply-To: <9509291225.AA20390@cmb.biosci.wayne.edu>
> Reply-To: David Simpson <davids@CyberGate.COM>
> Content-Length: 892
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>
> On Fri, 29 Sep 1995, Will Zehring wrote:
>
> > This probably dates, as does almost everything in England, to the umpteenth
> > century and to which side of the carriage you alighted, as the saying goes.
>
>
> I heard that the reason the British drive on the left is left over from
> horsey days, when one wanted one's sword arm available to present one's
> trusty sword to opposite-direction highwaymen, blackguards, Robin Hood,
> (Why isn't he called "Robin Bonnet"?), or any other undesirables one
> might come up against. Any one from across the water care to comment?
> BTW, I go to London quite frequently, and being from from America, as
> most Americans are, it's very sporty just walking about (oops, I mean
> 'around') without getting hit from the blind side; the traffic is always
> coming from the 'wrong' direction!. Also BTW, I absolutely love the place!
>
> Dave Simpson
> davids@cybergate.com
>
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