Bruno, If you have ever jumped onto the platform at the back of a Routemaster as it started leaving the bus stop or jumped off the platform as the bus slowed down to go round a corner, you'd understand why "on" and "off" were entirely appropriate prepositions. Sadly, the Routemaster is considered to have come to the end of its working life - for some politically correct reason or other.
"Along the Queen's great Highway I drive my merry load At 20 miles-per-hour in the middle of the road. We like to drive in convoys - we're most gregarious: The big six-wheeler scarlet-painted London transport diesel-engined 97-horsepower omnibus" http://www.iankitching.me.uk/humour/hippo/transp.html Chris Mason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruno Sugliani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, 26 June, 2006 10:11 PM Subject: Re: English (was Mainframe Limericks <snip> > You get in and out of a car, yet you get on and off a bus. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
