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Wednesday, February 16 2005, @ 7:44 AM (-0800 GMT)

Gill,

Your "treatise" below on "hiwaymen" and there "ilk" is really interesting. I had never thought of horse mounted swordmen riding on the left side of the road so that they could meet oncoming villianous types with their swords at the ready in their right hands. Very good point! Very good indeed! Quite clever those Englishmen!

In regards the stagecoach driver sitting on the right side of the seat, and the guy riding shotgun on the left, I'm going to have to find an old copy of the movie "Stagecoach" with John Wayne in it and see whats up. Was Andy Devine in that movie?

The fact that most people are right-handed, and mount their horse on the left side, kinda gives credence to the idea that the right side was not a good place to be, lest you "step in it." Doesn't THAT make sense?

Jim

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Speak for yourself! My left hand is plenty strong enough!

YEAH FOR LEFT HANDED PEOPLE! We get something good with the way things are made!

(from a left-handed person)

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Red Bug

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Tom's VR6

Hmm, so it was the French drivers who needed to whip horses that made the USA drivers change from the right-hand driving seat to the left hand horse's back. No comment. ;-)

Maybe we shouild be posting this in alt.stagecoach or something.

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Dave Hall

be careful, L E F T is a F O U R-letter word! but, according to psychiatrists, left-handed people are the only ones in their "right minds." (Right-handed people are left-minded). Does that mean perverse or just that they drink more beer?

jim (lefty from way back when Adolf first started thinking about the beetle).

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Jim

the door handle, that's all :-) For me, in a LHD car, it seems odd to have the left (weaker) hand on the wheel while you change gear.

******* Just proves once again it's all a matter of what you're used to. My Sportster (& most all bikes in the US - especially since '76) has right-side foot brakes. I got an eariler Sportster once & coming to a stop I was telling myself "left-foot brake, left-foot brake, left-foot brake.." & damned if I didn't downshift it instead! Could *not* get used to it *at all*. ~ Paul aka "Tha Driver"

Easy on the Giggle Cream!

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ThaDriver

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