In message , at 21:52:26 on Mon, 19 Sep
2011, " remarked:

Anyway, will Walrus cards be compatible at places that accept
Oystercards, or vice-versa?

The Walrus and the Carpenter ate oysters, of course.
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On Sep 19, 9:52*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

Anyway, will Walrus cards be compatible at places that accept
Oystercards, or vice-versa?

I certainly hope that I can use my Walrus card on the Goo Goo
G'Jubilee Line.

In article ,
says...

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 wonder how they came up with the term Oystercard to begin with, however?

Anyway, will Walrus cards be compatible at places that accept
Oystercards, or vice-versa?

What about Kipper cards for smokers?

No, a salmon(d) card!

And salmon pink is probably about the only colour it could be without
upsetting one football team or another.

Scotland's national team played in salmon pink and purple in the 1990s,
although ISTR some of their fans weren't too keen
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On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:41:54 +0100, "Richard J."
wrote:

Mizter T wrote on 19 September 2011 20:27:28 ...

On Sep 19, 6:38 pm, Basil wrote:

On 2011\09\19 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

That's actually a Beatles theme!

London should have had the Jellied Eel card of course.

What's wrong with Oyster? As observed by Senior Museum of London
archaeologist Julian Bowsher: "Oysters were in fact the staple diet of
the poor, right up to the Victorian period, and certainly we find oyster
shells by the thousand on nearly every archaeological site we do."

And they don't become "foreign" when you can't hear the bells of St
Mary le Bow.

In article , "Robin"
wrote:


No, a salmon(d) card!

And salmon pink is probably about the only colour it could be without
upsetting one football team or another.

Scotland's national team played in salmon pink and purple in the 1990s,
although ISTR some of their fans weren't too keen

I'm trying to remember if they were sponsored by a certain transport
conglomerate.

Sam

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...

Anyway, will Walrus cards be compatible at places that accept Oystercards,
or vice-versa?

The Liverpool card is an ITSO card, and therfore won't be compatible with
Oyster, although DfT want TfL to make Oyster ITSO compatible as well.

Paul S

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.

Robin

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 08:42:44PM +0100, 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.

How is it "culturally insensitive"?

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On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:52:04 +0100
David Cantrell wrote:
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 08:42:44PM +0100, 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.

How is it "culturally insensitive"?

Because its English. Didn't you know that the union flag apparently upsets
ethnics too? English or even British culture isn't worth spit as far as the
liberal elite are concerned.

B2003