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Marine themed smartcards
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." -- Richard J. (to email me, swap 'uk' and 'yon' in address) |
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Marine themed smartcards
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. |
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