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Mike Cawood, HND BIT wrote:
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/...559786,00.html Some people should have been strangled at birth. Mike. "Are there any lakes in the Lake District?" might seem silly, but "how many lakes are there?" is a fairly common trick question. [one, Bassenthwaite] -- Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK |
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On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Mark Goodge wrote:
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 17:22:16 -0000, Nick Pedley put finger to keyboard and typed: "Do those boatrides take you on the river?" Well, they could be on a lake. If the question were being asked at, say, Little Venice, it wouldn't be so stupid at all. http://www.canalmuseum.org.uk/boat-trip.htm tom -- Ensure a star-man is never constructed! |
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On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Mizter T wrote:
out-of-work thespian The term is, i believe, 'resting'! tom -- Ensure a star-man is never constructed! |
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On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 22:46:19 +0000, Ian Jelf
wrote: In message , Chris Johns writes On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Nick Pedley wrote: As some of you may be aware I work on that big white wheel in central London and part of the job includes answering questions as best as we can. Trouble is that some of them are, well, tricky*..... "What side of the river is Westminster Bridge?" "Why don't you put a clock up on a big tower so people can see the time?" "It's one o'clock. Why did the bell only ring once?" "I never knew Paris was so close to London that we could see the Eiffel Tower from the top of the wheel!" "Do those boatrides take you on the river?" I wonder how many times the tourist information centre in Leeds gets asked "how do I get to the castle?" That used to come up as a Tourist Board exam question every few years. I'll bet no-one answers the question "Where are the 39 steps? bang!" which ISTR being offered on a similar list of strange queries some time ago. |
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On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:27:23 GMT, Olof Lagerkvist wrote:
"What side of the river is Westminster Bridge?" I've had that about London Bridge. Hm, but if they asked for the station with that name and not the bridge itself? Also, I've often heard the area around the station referred to as London Bridge. As in, "London Bridge isn't a very nice area" or "Guy's Hospital is in London Bridge". So it's a perfectly valid question, and the answer is the south side. |
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"Colin Rosenstiel" wrote in message
... In article , (Paul Terry) wrote: In message , Tim Roll-Pickering writes Jonathan Morton wrote: The one about the May Day demonstration is permissible. After all, so-called "May Day" isn't usually on the first of the month - and at the Universities May Week is in June. Is it? I've never noticed a "May Week" at any of the universities I've been at. AFAIR, only Cambridge has a "May Week" - originally in May, before the exams, but now in June after exams. Even there, some colleges prefer "June event" to the more traditional "May ball". The Oxford equivalent is the Commem. ball. May week can sometimes start in May, if Easter is early enough. It can also get perilously close to June. Could you give us an example of a year when May Week begins in May, please, Colin? In the table at http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/so/so_ch02.pdf, the earliest date for the Friday at the end of Full Term (the Friday of the May Races) is June 10th. You talk of Easter being "early enough". The earliest date on which Easter can fall is March 22nd, but that doesn't occur within the period of my current list (between 1875 and 2124). A March 23rd Easter will occur in 2008, and Full Term that year will end on Friday 13th June. Looking back I see that the Wednesday at the start of the May Races in 1958, 1969, 1975, and in 1980 was 4th June. If we go back to 1953, the Wednesday was 3rd June (the day after the Coronation), and the 1952 May Races are also recorded as starting on 3rd June (which would have been the Tuesday). 1951 was another relatively early Easter (March 25th) and the Mays started on June 7th. To add additional confusion, May Week lasts a fortnight, with the first week being the week including the May Races (and the end of Full Term), and the following week with the May Balls. -- David Biddulph |
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asdf wrote:
On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:27:23 GMT, Olof Lagerkvist wrote: "What side of the river is Westminster Bridge?" I've had that about London Bridge. Hm, but if they asked for the station with that name and not the bridge itself? Also, I've often heard the area around the station referred to as London Bridge. As in, "London Bridge isn't a very nice area" or "Guy's Hospital is in London Bridge". So it's a perfectly valid question, and the answer is the south side. The area isn't really called London Bridge - the area is the Borough, just as Victoria isn't a place per se - it's Belgravia, Pimlico or Westminster. I do however find someone saying they live "in London Bridge" somewhat absurd, as if they actually live within the bridge itself (though perhaps in the future they will! - see [1]). Anyway rant over! I do often use these locations as a nearby reference point - e.g. "I'm in Guy's Hospital, near London Bridge, recovering from having been beaten up by the massed ranks of usenauts for being an awkward annoying know-it-all." [1] http://tinyurl.com/y6jugc |
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Tom Anderson wrote:
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Mizter T wrote: out-of-work thespian The term is, i believe, 'resting'! Konstantin Stanislavski, another resting actor, had the right idea - he used his time to write the de-facto textbooks on acting. Rather spoiled it for any other resting actors who might've wanted to pull that trick again though! (I do, of course, jest somewhat.) |
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In article , invalid@invalid
invalid (asdf) wrote: On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:27:23 GMT, Olof Lagerkvist wrote: "What side of the river is Westminster Bridge?" I've had that about London Bridge. Hm, but if they asked for the station with that name and not the bridge itself? Also, I've often heard the area around the station referred to as London Bridge. As in, "London Bridge isn't a very nice area" or "Guy's Hospital is in London Bridge". So it's a perfectly valid question, and the answer is the south side. At London Bridge, maybe. But definitely not of Westminster Bridge! -- Colin Rosenstiel |
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