On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 08:23:01 -0000, Robin wrote:

"With coaches every 10 minutes, 24 hours a day you will never have to
wait too long to get to Oxford or London in complete comfort"

snip

The home page http://www.oxfordtube.com/index.php actually has ""With
buses **from** every 10 minutes, 24 hours a day ......" (emphasis
added).

Their copywriters will thank you for confirming the success of their
drafting so as to get you to miss the "from". But you may possibly take
some comfort from the fact that AIUI that trick only works with people
who read English well. So it doesn't work with visitors who (like me)
have to tackle any language other than our native tongue pretty much
word by word.

I used copy and paste from the flash at their front page. Here is a
screenshot: http://imgur.com/l40dy .

Beeing Norwegian, English isn't my primary language, either.

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jhk

In message , at 12:37:48 on
Sat, 17 Mar 2012, Jarle H Knudsen remarked:
The home page http://www.oxfordtube.com/index.php actually has ""With
buses **from** every 10 minutes, 24 hours a day ......" (emphasis
added).

It doesn't.

Their copywriters will thank you for confirming the success of their
drafting so as to get you to miss the "from". But you may possibly take
some comfort from the fact that AIUI that trick only works with people
who read English well. So it doesn't work with visitors who (like me)
have to tackle any language other than our native tongue pretty much
word by word.

I used copy and paste from the flash at their front page. Here is a
screenshot: http://imgur.com/l40dy .

I agree. It says simply "With coaches every 10 minutes, 24 hours a day
you will never have to wait long..."

And even with *from 10 minutes* that's an exaggeration compared to the
timetable, which has at best "Every 10-15 mins" from 0800 to 1950 (and
fewer at other times of day).
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Roland Perry

I used copy and paste from the flash at their front page. Here is a
screenshot: http://imgur.com/l40dy .


The words I quoted were from the non-Flash page. There's a screengrab
at
http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/a..._not_Flash.jpg

I do indeed see the words you and others quoted if I enable Flash.

Looks to me as if someone converted the older text to Flash and lost the
crucial (for advertising standards purposes) "from".


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Robin
reply to address is (meant to be) valid

On Mar 17, 8:23*am, "Robin" wrote:

"With coaches every 10 minutes, 24 hours a day you will never have to
wait too long to get to Oxford or London in complete comfort"

snip

The home page http://www.oxfordtube.com/index.php*actually has
"With buses **from** every 10 minutes, 24 hours a day ......"
(emphasis added).

No, it doesn't. (And they call them coaches, not buses.) It says what
Jarle quoted above.

No, it doesn't. (And they call them coaches, not buses.) It says what
Jarle quoted above.

Pl see the reply to JHK just posted.
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Robin
reply to address is (meant to be) valid

On Mar 17, 1:24*pm, "Robin" wrote:
No, it doesn't. (And they call them coaches, not buses.) It says what
Jarle quoted above.

Pl see the reply to JHK just posted.

My apologies Robin - it didn't even cross my mind that there'd be
separate flash and non-flash versions of the page, let alone the text
on each being different.

Jarle H Knudsen wrote:
However, the timetable at http://www.oxfordtube.com/tubetimes.php shows a
much lower frequency, at times a low as hourly.

The silliest bit is where they have a big red box with the words
'Every 60 mins until', when they could have just put '0210'!

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Neil Sunderland
Braunton, Devon

Please observe the Reply-To address

On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:08:51 +0000, Mizter T
wrote:

Well, the brand is no more at least - it's back to just being called the
X90.

X90 webpages:
http://www.oxfordbus.co.uk/main.php?page_id=261

www.flickr.com/photos/59115230@N06/6831486238/

From the Oxford Bus Co's front page:
http://www.oxfordbus.co.uk/
"Monday 5th March sees the launch of the new look X90 Oxford-London
service. Connect with the capital in 100 minutes (depending on traffic).
X90 is fast and frequent and takes you direct to London serving Baker
Street, Marble Arch and Victoria."



It's also one of three routes where you can use an ITSO card for an
intra-Greater London journey.

On this bus the Oxford Key card is valid for journeys from Victoria to
Hillingdon.

(The other two are the 409 and 420 run by Metrobus.)

Espresso Bongo
Is no longo.

Espresso Bongo
Is no longo.