I Like Numbers

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GNTLGNT

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Heh-heh... too easy. ;;D
...I AM the 8th dwarf...Easy....
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Grandpa

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New Japanese cars come in right-hand steering wheel versions. That's because Japan is another country with left-sided driving.

When I lived on Okinawa for a year, it was right-sided driving, but the cars were a mixture of left- and right-hand steering wheels. My gray Toyota had a right-side steering wheel. Then the year that we lived there, on July 31, 1978, the streets were changed from right-side to left-side driving. Overnight. True story. The main tunes you heard from cars on August 1st was the screeching of tires.
 

danie

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New Japanese cars come in right-hand steering wheel versions. That's because Japan is another country with left-sided driving.

When I lived on Okinawa for a year, it was right-sided driving, but the cars were a mixture of left- and right-hand steering wheels. My gray Toyota had a right-side steering wheel. Then the year that we lived there, on July 31, 1978, the streets were changed from right-side to left-side driving. Overnight. True story. The main tunes you heard from cars on August 1st was the screeching of tires.
Cool story. So if I take my RX-8 to Japan, I'll be able to drive there, no problem?
 

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The DIL is a math teacher. She taught for a while in a rougher school. She didn't allow cussing in her class, but she suggested that they could say such things as "mother function."

Why is 10 afraid of 7? Because 7 8 9 and 10 is next.

I like numbers. They're really the same as words, with a mixture of the rational and irrational. It's just a matter of finding the right formula for the best expression.
 

Grandpa

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Cool story. So if I take my RX-8 to Japan, I'll be able to drive there, no problem?

Japan proper, I can't say (Okinawa is to Japan as Hawaii is to the US), but I should think so. I would also check on the cost of transporting a car to Japan. I think you'd be a lot better served with renting an RX-8 while you're there. ;)

I remember sometime after Honda opened its Ohio factory, it ran an ad featuring a right-sided car that it made in America that it exported to Japan.
 

danie

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Japan proper, I can't say (Okinawa is to Japan as Hawaii is to the US), but I should think so. I would also check on the cost of transporting a car to Japan. I think you'd be a lot better served with renting an RX-8 while you're there. ;)

I remember sometime after Honda opened its Ohio factory, it ran an ad featuring a right-sided car that it made in America that it exported to Japan.
I'm not really going to Japan, but am planning to go to England sometime.
I guess I'll have to rent a car there.