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Title: What does "On the bus" mean?
Post by: JimH on September 08, 2014, 09:45:16 am

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. (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ken_Kesey)", meaning, you're either committed to the bus or you're not.

Here's the bus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Further_(bus)).

Title: Re: What does "On the bus" mean?
Post by: mojave on September 08, 2014, 10:34:26 am

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

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

Title: Re: What does "On the bus" mean?
Post by: JimH on September 08, 2014, 10:43:02 am

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