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   From: robban@clubtelco.com   
      
   On 13/08/13 1:24 AM, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy wrote:   
   > Robert Bannister  wrote in   
   > news:b6gfu1Fs6s0U1@mid.individual.net:   
   >   
   >> On 5/08/13 11:41 PM, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy wrote:   
   >>> Robert Bannister  wrote in   
   >>> news:b638tqF2q2eU3@mid.individual.net:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On 3/08/13 4:30 AM, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy wrote:   
   >>>>> throopw@sheol.org (Wayne Throop) wrote in   
   >>>>> news:1375467304@sheol.org:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> : "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)"    
   >>>>>> : I think most of them are even standardized as to where the   
   >>>>>> : brake is (on a lever at near-floor level, next to the   
   >>>>>> : accelerator, so that you have a very hard time   
   >>>>>> : simultaneously hitting brake and accelerator at the same   
   >>>>>> : time; you have to take your foot off the accelerator to   
   >>>>>> : use the brake).   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> You do?  Er... one does?  I had supposed most folks had a   
   >>>>>> left foot. Possibly I have been misinformed.  Near as I   
   >>>>>> knew, it was almost a cliche that folks (expecially when   
   >>>>>> driving a car with automatic transmission, but in other   
   >>>>>> circumstances too) discover for themselves the keep one foot   
   >>>>>> on the brake and one on the gas technique.  Subtrope, old   
   >>>>>> folks driving down the road with foot on the brake, burning   
   >>>>>> up their brake linings/pads.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>> Doesn't work too well on a manual transmission.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> On older cars that had a larger accelerator pedal you could do   
   >>>> it using your right foot over both.   
   >>>   
   >>> ITYM left foot, but that seems to be completely different from   
   >>> having one foot on each pedal. Huh?   
   >>   
   >> We sit on a different side of the car from you guys. We drive   
   >> with our right foot and keep our right hand ready with a sword   
   >> to defend against passing highwaymen.   
   >>   
   > You always were an ass-backwards nation.   
   >   
      
   But you see why we don't need anyone to ride shotgun. Sword in hand, we   
   drive, our lady safe at our side. Cads used pistols instead of swords.   
      
   --   
   Robert Bannister   
      
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