On 20/09/2011 18:51, Arthur Figgis wrote:
On 20/09/2011 10:36, bob wrote:
On Sep 19, 10:52 pm,
wrote:
On 19/09/2011 18:05, Matthew Dickinson wrote:
Merseytravel have followed the trend for marine-named smartcards by
introducing the Walrus card
http://www.walruscard.com/index.asp
Cool. Are they going to have a Cod card or a Haddock card for Scotland,
I wonder?
I'm assuming Cardiff would have a Whale card.
I wonder how they came up with the term Oystercard to begin with,
however?
I belief the official idea was some sort of association with
containing pearls. Of course Hong Kong has the octopus card too.
World is your Oyster?
"Pearl" is Sydney.
Pearl's a singer...
--
Graeme Wall
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