"Mizter T" wrote in message ...

On Sep 19, 8:42 pm, "Robin" wrote:

London should have had the Jellied Eel card of course.

But could never have happened:

a. not something the Islington political class eat*; and
b. not multicultural - indeed quite culturally insensitive.

Sigh... welcome to the comments section of Britain's best selling mid-
market paper.


*There was the wonderful (no doubt apocryphal) story of Peter Mandelson
going into a chippie to try to boost his older Labour credential and
asking for haddock, chips and "some of that guacamole" - mistaking the
mushy peas for avocado dip.

If we were to want to talk about vaguely transport related apocryphal
sayings, then how that which was (and still is) widely misattributed
to Maggie about men over 26/30 on buses being failures in life.

What other classic misattribitions or apocryphal stories are there in
the railway (or public transport) world?

I know of somebody who refers to the working classes as "bus poor"

--
Graham.

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