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Marine themed smartcards
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? |