off the near side

[wzehring@cmb.biosci.wayne.edu (Will Zehring)]

>     Hmmm....I have always thought the "near side" was the side nearest the 
>     driver, which in jolly old England, of course, is the Right side of 
>     the vehicle. And the "off side" would natually be the other side, the 
>     passenger side, and the Left side of a Home model MG.
>    

Well, yes, I suppose I could have gotten it backwards.  

Will "someone somewhere told me it was Friday" Zehring