"Larry Lard" wrote in message
oups.com...

Personally I'm really looking forward to sharing London's
transport 'system' with half a million extra people, for a month.

And who would they be? The hotels are normally pretty full in the summer,
and they won't be any fuller, since the inflated hotel prices will deter any
normal holidaymakers from coming here.

--
John Rowland - Spamtrapped
Transport Plans for the London Area, updated 2001
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acro...69/tpftla.html
A man's vehicle is a symbol of his manhood.
That's why my vehicle's the Piccadilly Line -
It's the size of a county and it comes every two and a half minutes

"Kat" wrote in message
...
Steve Dulieu wrote:

Well we got em, here's to a nice quiet life on the underground...

I'd drink to that but I'm just off to work...

You've got 7 years to save up for a portable TV so you can watch the
Olympics when you're standing on the picket line!

--
John Rowland - Spamtrapped
Transport Plans for the London Area, updated 2001
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acro...69/tpftla.html
A man's vehicle is a symbol of his manhood.
That's why my vehicle's the Piccadilly Line -
It's the size of a county and it comes every two and a half minutes

Adrian wrote to uk.transport.london on Wed, 6 Jul 2005:

Mrs Redboots ) gurgled happily, sounding much
like they were saying :

To say nothing of overall health improved as more people take up sport?

I don't buy that at all. Who ever took up sport (other than a brief trip or
two to the gym) as a result of watching the World Cup/Olympics/Wimbledon?

I know a very great many people who took up ice-skating as a direct
result of the world championships coming to the UK in 1995. And that
didn't even involve building new ice-rinks, as a temporary ice surface
was used. We (the skating community) are all hoping they will come to
London in 2008.

Why will the fact it's London rather than Paris make a difference in that
respect?

Because they will have the sports facilities on their doorsteps, not 2.5
hours away by Eurostar.

All so we can have another seven years of the kind of chaos Wembley's
redevelopment is causing, with the end result being another Millenium Doom.

No, the Dome is being used for the Olympics, so they tell me! But a new
50-metre swimming-pool, new athletics stadium, the Dome actually being
used.... no way will it be a white elephant!

The good side is that Tony hasn't got a cat in hell's come the next
election. Ooops. He's already said he's not standing again. Hiho. We'll
have to take it out on Ken instead. Ooops. He's already said he's not
standing again.

Frankly, if they've done one good thing over the past n years, it's been
to support the bid!
--
"Mrs Redboots"
http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/
Website updated 23 May 2005

Adrian wrote to uk.transport.london on Thu, 7 Jul 2005:

James Farrar ) gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying :

My understanding is that there'll be a special Olympic Lottery. You're
welcome not to participate.

I will participate in the Olympic Lottery as fully as I currrently
participate in the National Lottery.

Yeah, me too! Who wants to pay a voluntary tax???
--
"Mrs Redboots"
http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/
Website updated 23 May 2005

Mizter T wrote to uk.transport.london on Wed, 6 Jul 2005:

Mrs Redboots wrote:
umpston wrote to uk.transport.london on Wed, 6 Jul 2005:

And it was bloody brilliant!! Bring it on!

AMEN!! I, for one, am utterly delighted. Whether we actually enjoy
living here while it's happening is one thing - but I do think it will,
overall, be an excellent thing for London, and contribute enormously to
quality of life in that part of the capital after the event.
--

I'm also jubilant that London will host the Olympics. And I look
forward to enjoying the summer of 2012, getting involved in the
numerous events that'll happen and being a spectator at as many of the
events as I can.

The games will not make London crumble, they will make London stronger.

Absolutely! Anyway, it's a long way away, all these grumpy old men
might be living somewhere else by then....
--
"Mrs Redboots"
http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/
Website updated 23 May 2005

Mrs Redboots ) gurgled happily, sounding
much like they were saying :

I don't buy that at all. Who ever took up sport (other than a brief
trip or two to the gym) as a result of watching the World
Cup/Olympics/Wimbledon?

I know a very great many people who took up ice-skating as a direct
result of the world championships coming to the UK in 1995.

And it was as a result of the championships being *here* (I'll take your
word - I don't remember them at all), not as a result of T&D winning
everything in sight all over the world?

Why will the fact it's London rather than Paris make a difference in
that respect?

Because they will have the sports facilities on their doorsteps, not
2.5 hours away by Eurostar.

IF they live in East London.

In article ,
(CMOT TMPV) wrote:

Once upon a time -- around about 7/6/05 08:05 --
possibly wrote:

....

As a Merkin,

We can see that from your date format - we make that
7th June. Why do Merkins put it like that? - D/M/Y or
Y/M/D seem a logical progression, M/D/Y doesn't. It's
like quoting a time as 6hrs 40 secs 10 mins.

---

Peter Beale

Adrian wrote to uk.transport.london on Thu, 7 Jul 2005:

I know a very great many people who took up ice-skating as a direct
result of the world championships coming to the UK in 1995.

And it was as a result of the championships being *here* (I'll take your
word - I don't remember them at all), not as a result of T&D winning
everything in sight all over the world?

Indeed - T&D were long retired by then (they were really big in the
early 1980s, and then made some kind of comeback in the late 80s, but by
1995 they were concentrating on professional skating).

Why will the fact it's London rather than Paris make a difference in
that respect?

Because they will have the sports facilities on their doorsteps, not
2.5 hours away by Eurostar.

IF they live in East London.

True, but there will be improved transport links to East London! Make
it easier to get to Lea Valley Ice Rink.....
--
"Mrs Redboots"
http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/
Website updated 23 May 2005

"Peter Beale" wrote in message
.. .
In article ,
(CMOT TMPV) wrote:

We can see that from your date format - we make that
7th June. Why do Merkins put it like that? - D/M/Y or
Y/M/D seem a logical progression, M/D/Y doesn't. It's
like quoting a time as 6hrs 40 secs 10 mins.

Yes, I've never understood the logic of the American convention of not
putting the DMY in ascending (or decending) order of significance: either
DMY or YMD. The latter, while much less common, has the advantage that a
date stored as a text string in this format will sort into ascending order
of date.

Since I'm aware of the potential for confusion, I never write a date as
1/2/2005 because I know it could be interpreted as 1 Feb or Jan 2. Instead I
always write it as 1 Jan 2005 to avoid ambiguity. I suspect that more
Europeans know about the American convention being different (and the need
to avoid ambiguity) than the converse.

"Mrs Redboots" wrote in message
...
Mizter T wrote to uk.transport.london on Wed, 6 Jul 2005:

Mrs Redboots wrote:
umpston wrote to uk.transport.london on Wed, 6 Jul 2005:

And it was bloody brilliant!! Bring it on!

AMEN!! I, for one, am utterly delighted. Whether we actually enjoy
living here while it's happening is one thing - but I do think it will,
overall, be an excellent thing for London, and contribute enormously to
quality of life in that part of the capital after the event.
--

I'm also jubilant that London will host the Olympics. And I look
forward to enjoying the summer of 2012, getting involved in the
numerous events that'll happen and being a spectator at as many of the
events as I can.

The games will not make London crumble, they will make London stronger.

Absolutely! Anyway, it's a long way away, all these grumpy old men
might be living somewhere else by then....
--
"Mrs Redboots"

This one most certainly will!
Dave G