From: Joerg van den Hoff <j.van_den_hoff@fzd.de>
To: "Ulf Wiger (TN/EAB)" <ulf.wiger@ericsson.com>
Cc: Caml-list List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] If OCaml were a car
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:56:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070821105651.GB12487@marco.fz-rossendorf.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50EF7C1F8DC43749AC0018FB9574D996171ED3@esealmw115.eemea.ericsson.se>
and there was a time, when french cars had the direction indicator on
the right of the steering wheel and the column gear shift on the left.
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 10:50:52PM +0200, Ulf Wiger (TN/EAB) wrote:
>
> David Allsopp wrote:
> >
> > > I would think this is only a joke from an american person
> > > about french cars?
> > > On which side do they drive in USA, and on which in french?
> > > So the controls are on the other side.
> >
> > Erm, I think you'll find that the French, Americans (and
> > Germans) all drive on the same side of the road?
>
> I would assume that this is a leftover from the time when
> Citroën dashboards bore little resemblance to those of
> other cars.
>
> (Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Citroen_CX_dashboard.JPG)
>
> The Citroëns were of course (and still are) superior cars. ;-)
>
> BR,
> Ulf W
> (proud owner of two Citroën XM)
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-21 10:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-18 19:21 Richard Jones
2007-08-18 20:24 ` [Caml-list] " Jeff Meister
2007-08-18 21:32 ` Michael Vanier
2007-08-19 11:50 ` Daniel Bünzli
2007-08-19 11:59 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-08-22 5:50 ` Luca de Alfaro
2007-08-22 8:13 ` Jon Harrop
2007-08-22 9:20 ` Jacques Garrigue
2007-08-24 2:54 ` Nathaniel Gray
2007-08-25 19:45 ` Oliver Bandel
2007-08-19 14:43 ` John Carr
2007-08-19 16:22 ` brogoff
2007-08-19 17:07 ` Richard Jones
2007-08-19 17:19 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2007-08-22 6:04 ` Luca de Alfaro
2007-08-19 20:51 ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-08-21 8:05 ` David Allsopp
2007-08-21 18:33 ` Richard Jones
2007-08-19 20:30 ` Tom
2007-08-19 21:45 ` skaller
2007-08-20 3:37 ` Jon Harrop
2007-08-20 6:26 ` skaller
2007-08-20 10:00 ` Joerg van den Hoff
2007-08-21 12:03 ` Florian Hars
2007-08-20 6:54 ` skaller
2007-08-20 19:54 ` Oliver Bandel
2007-08-20 20:27 ` David Allsopp
2007-08-20 20:50 ` Ulf Wiger (TN/EAB)
2007-08-21 10:56 ` Joerg van den Hoff [this message]
2007-08-20 21:13 ` Oliver Bandel
2007-08-21 0:47 ` skaller
2007-08-21 9:51 ` Oliver Bandel
2007-08-21 10:30 ` skaller
2007-08-21 18:57 ` Richard Jones
2007-08-22 2:49 ` skaller
2007-08-22 11:33 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2007-08-21 14:46 ` Business Adoption of Ocaml [was Re: [Caml-list] If OCaml were a car] Robert Fischer
2007-08-21 15:09 ` Brian Hurt
2007-08-21 15:48 ` [Caml-list] If OCaml were a car brogoff
2007-08-19 18:15 [caml-list] " Mike Lin
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