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[JimH]

One of our volunteer translators asked what "On the bus" means.  This is my reply.

Jim

"On the bus" means literally, "You are riding on a bus (autobus?)."  But it is a slang expression that means "You're with it." or "You're with the program."  or "You're all set."  Maybe, "You're commited to riding with MC now".  

It has roots in a Tom Wolfe novel from the 1960's, called "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test".  It centered around the author, Ken Kesey, who said "You're either on the bus or you're off the bus.", meaning, you're either committed to the bus or you're not.

Here's the bus.

[mojave]

Jim, your link doesn't have the closing parenthesis within the url tags.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Further_(bus)

[JimH]

Thanks.  I fixed it.  In IE, it worked anyway.