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1. Nearly Off.......or Off'ly Near, Old Chap! (score: 1): Author: Jerome Keller <jkeller@cc-mail.pica.army.mil>; Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 08:45:12 -0400; Thanks to Ray Gibbons who wrote: You get onto a horse on the near (left) side. If you try to get on the right side, the horse will throw you *off*. So the right side is the off side, in England or th; /html/mgs/1995-10/msg00011.html (7,923 bytes)
2. Re: Nearly Off.......or Off'ly Near, Old Chap! (score: 1): Author: Chip Old <fold@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us>; Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 00:09:12 -0400 (EDT); Not everywhere. That's the English way, and for the most part the European way, but in many parts of the world it is customary to mount from the right hand side. In other places it is customary to m; /html/mgs/1995-10/msg00028.html (9,314 bytes)
3. Re: Nearly Off.......or Off'ly Near, Old Chap! (score: 1): Author: Jerome Keller <jkeller@cc-mail.pica.army.mil>; Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 08:18:02 -0400; I yield, I yield....on all points. Thanks, Chip, guess I should have read those old manuals more closely. Jerry Keller (P.S. Good to see you still have your hand in, Chip. I suppose you had written a; /html/mgs/1995-10/msg00044.html (9,999 bytes)
4. Re: Nearly Off.......or Off'ly Near, Old Chap! (score: 1): Author: "W. Ray Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>; Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 12:20:35 -0400 (EDT); To be serious for a minute, I think offside and nearside became synonymous with right and left before cars were invented, so nearside is left and offside right regardless of which side the steering w; /html/mgs/1995-10/msg00058.html (9,045 bytes)
5. Re: Nearly Off.......or Off'ly Near, Old Chap! (score: 1): Author: Chip Old <fold@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us>; Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 22:18:50 -0400 (EDT); Don't give up so easily. You're assuming that _I_ read them closely! :-) Got tired of it, mainly, then got sidetracked by computers, horses, an old house, so no longer had time for it. Sigh. I can't; /html/mgs/1995-10/msg00072.html (8,207 bytes)
6. Re: Nearly Off.......or Off'ly Near, Old Chap! (score: 1): Author: Chip Old <fold@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us>; Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 22:35:26 -0400 (EDT); That was mercifully short. Now on to the _real_ Ray Gibbons... And as we all know, thanks to the superb control of the parts situation afforded by the early adoption of the industry-standard "nearly; /html/mgs/1995-10/msg00073.html (9,397 bytes)

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