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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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  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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