[Healeys] Left is right

[I Erbs]

My thoughts won't wake my wife......

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:36 AM, dwflagg at juno.com <dwflagg at juno.com> wrote:

> Have you considered a late night talk show.????? :)
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------
> From: <robertduquette at sympatico.ca>
> To: Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net>
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Left is right
> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:59:30 +0000
>
> So they left on the left.
>
> Robert Duquette
>
> > From: Editorgary at aol.com
> >
> > At the risk of prolonging this topic overlong, I remember hearing a
> puzzler
> > on Car Talk Radio a few years ago.
> >
> > Seems that the archaeologists had discovered the site of a prehistoric
> > quarry sight in Britain using infrared photography or some such. From the
> > photographs they were able to conclude that even in prehistory, Brits had
> driven
> > on the left. The puzzler was: How did they know that?
> >
> > The answer, once you hear it is obvious. They noted that at the point
> where
> > the quarry entrance/exit had been, the earth was more compacted on the
> > right side of the entrance than on the left. Obviously wagons, tumbrels,
> or
> > whatever they were using to haul the stones arrived empty and left full,
> so
> when
> > they came in and when they went out, they always drove to the left.
> >
> > So, Brits have been driving on the left side of the road for longer than
> > recorded history.
> >
> > Imagine that.
> >
> > Best
> > Gary
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