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Colin Rosenstiel · April 12th 08, 09:39 PM posted to uk.transport.london

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(Arthur Figgis) wrote:

Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
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(Ian Jelf) wrote:

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Colin Rosenstiel writes
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(Mizter T) wrote:

On 11 Apr, 00:13, (Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:
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Perhaps a more relevant example to this thread would be that
other
inverse square law of motion - the walking speed of a group of
people is inversely proportional to the square of the number of
people in it. :-)
I'm sure Mr Jelf has his techniques!
I was wondering if he'd heard of it. :-)
He's not only heard of it, he's done a lot of practical research on
the matter, including work in Oxford and Cambridge. (Who says we
tour guide types aren't academic??!!!)

Some of my friends are Cambridge tour guides. :-)

Some of us have had great fun showing tourists the rooms where
insert name of royalty lived,

Oh yes, I had supervisions in one of them, though before Prince Charles
lived in it.

Hitler's planned British HQ, the
cathedral on Trumpington Street...

However, our preferred one is the house two doors away once lived in by
the present Archbishop of Canterbury. We couldn't even interest an estate
agent selling it in that one once!

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Colin Rosenstiel