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Can anyone think of any London Underground stations with the letters T,
O, S, E and R in their names (apart from Cannon Street)? -- message by Robin May, but you can call me Mr Smith. Hello. I'm one of those "roaring fascists of the left wing". Then and than are different words! |
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Paul Weaver wrote the following in:
On Sat, 08 Nov 2003 23:05:10 +0000, Robin May wrote: Can anyone think of any London Underground stations with the letters T, O, S, E and R in their names (apart from Cannon Street)? walThamStOw cEntRal Thanks! -- message by Robin May, but you can call me Mr Smith. Hello. I'm one of those "roaring fascists of the left wing". Then and than are different words! |
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Robin May wrote:
Can anyone think of any London Underground stations with the letters T, O, S, E and R in their names (apart from Cannon Street)? Heathrow Terminals 1,2,3 Hounslow Central Osterley Northfields Earl's Court Gloucester Road Cockfosters - and that's just the Piccadilly line! -- Richard J. (to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address) |
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On Sat, 08 Nov 2003 23:05:10 +0000, Robin May wrote:
Can anyone think of any London Underground stations with the letters T, O, S, E and R in their names (apart from Cannon Street)? walThamStOw cEntRal |
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Brent Cross
"Robin May" wrote in message . 1.4... Paul Weaver wrote the following in: On Sat, 08 Nov 2003 23:05:10 +0000, Robin May wrote: Can anyone think of any London Underground stations with the letters T, O, S, E and R in their names (apart from Cannon Street)? walThamStOw cEntRal Thanks! -- message by Robin May, but you can call me Mr Smith. Hello. I'm one of those "roaring fascists of the left wing". Then and than are different words! |
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Robin May writes:
Can anyone think of any London Underground stations with the letters T, O, S, E and R in their names (apart from Cannon Street)? Old STREet |
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JRS: In article ,
seen in news:uk.transport.london, Robin May om posted at Sat, 8 Nov 2003 23:05:10 :- Can anyone think of any London Underground stations with the letters T, O, S, E and R in their names (apart from Cannon Street)? Check firstly all with "Street". Cockfosters Goodge Street Hounslow Central Northfields Stonebridge Park High Street Kensington Ravenscourt Park Totteridge & Whetstone New Cross Gate Bond Street Mornington Crescent Brent Cross etc. There'll be a lot more if their real names include "Station"; and, if "Underground" is also included ... . If I had a list of all stations, I could easily use DOS find to successively pass only those letters, after conversion to lower case. -- © John Stockton, Surrey, UK. Turnpike v4.00 MIME. © Web URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/ - w. FAQish topics, links, acronyms PAS EXE etc : URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/programs/ - see 00index.htm Dates - miscdate.htm moredate.htm js-dates.htm pas-time.htm critdate.htm etc. |
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T.O.S.E.R? U trying to say something?
"Robin May" wrote in message . 1.4... Can anyone think of any London Underground stations with the letters T, O, S, E and R in their names (apart from Cannon Street)? -- message by Robin May, but you can call me Mr Smith. Hello. I'm one of those "roaring fascists of the left wing". Then and than are different words! |
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"Rob" wrote the following in:
T.O.S.E.R? U trying to say something? No, but you are correct in your observation that I am looking for tube stations with letters from the word tosser in them. -- message by Robin May, but you can call me Mr Smith. Hello. I'm one of those "roaring fascists of the left wing". Then and than are different words! |
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"Robin May" wrote in message . 1.4... "Rob" wrote the following in: T.O.S.E.R? U trying to say something? No, but you are correct in your observation that I am looking for tube stations with letters from the word tosser in them. -- message by Robin May, but you can call me Mr Smith. Hello. I'm one of those "roaring fascists of the left wing". Then and than are different words! There are a lot of stations that have the letters TOSER in them but only a few that contain TOSSER (with two S's) BRENT CROSS COCKFOSTERS EUSTON SQUARE NEW CROSS GATE HIGH STREET KENSINGTON Can anyone find the two stations which contain the letters "******S"? Peter Smyth |
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"Peter Smyth" wrote the following in:
There are a lot of stations that have the letters TOSER in them but only a few that contain TOSSER (with two S's) Aha, but in photoshop you only need one S. I now need to get out with the camera and try taking some photos of the various station signs. -- message by Robin May, but you can call me Mr Smith. Hello. I'm one of those "roaring fascists of the left wing". Then and than are different words! |
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JRS: In article , seen in
news:uk.transport.london, Dr John Stockton posted at Sun, 9 Nov 2003 15:05:37 :- There'll be a lot more if their real names include "Station"; and, if "Underground" is also included ... . If I had a list of all stations, I could easily use DOS find to successively pass only those letters, after conversion to lower case. Result : Bond Street Brent Cross Cannon Street Cockfosters Earls Court Euston Square Gloucester Road Goodge Street Great Portland Street Harrow & Wealdstone High Street Kensington Hounslow Central Liverpool Street Mornington Crescent New Cross Gate * Northfields Old Street Osterley Preston Road Ravenscourt Park Shoreditch * Silvertown & City Airport * Stanmore Stonebridge Park Totteridge & Whetstone Walthamstow Central West Brompton West Harrow Westbourne Park List from Column A of http://3lib.ukonline.co.uk/pocketinfo/data/tube.csv St changed to Street except where Saint Rd changed to Road Processed by DOS find /i "s" $1 | find /i "t" | find /i "o" | find /i "e" | find /i "r" I have not checked that all are on the Tube map as real Underground stations; beware of those starred. -- © John Stockton, Surrey, UK. DOS 3.3, 6.20; Win98. © Web URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/ - FAQqish topics, acronyms & links. PAS EXE TXT ZIP via URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/programs/00index.htm My DOS URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/batfiles.htm - also batprogs.htm. |
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On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 12:04:09 -0000, "Horace" wrote:
Brent Cross "Robin May" wrote in message .1.4... Paul Weaver wrote the following in: On Sat, 08 Nov 2003 23:05:10 +0000, Robin May wrote: Can anyone think of any London Underground stations with the letters T, O, S, E and R in their names (apart from Cannon Street)? walThamStOw cEntRal Thanks! -- message by Robin May, but you can call me Mr Smith. Hello. I'm one of those "roaring fascists of the left wing". Then and than are different words! Preston Road |
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"Robin May" wrote in message
.4... I now need to get out with the camera and try taking some photos of the various station signs. If you're trying to make a composite image of a tube sign that says "TOSSER", you need to consider the size and spacing. For best results, find a combination of 6-letter station names which contain TOSER between them. MORDEN and EUSTON are probably the easiest to get to from most places. LEYTON and RUISLIP would also do (since "i"s are very narrow, Ruislip will be spaced like a six letter word.) -- 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 |
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On 11 Nov 2003 00:11:18 GMT, Robin May
wrote: I now need to get out with the camera and try taking some photos of the various station signs. I assumed that's what you were thinking of. Would drawing it 'by hand' not be sufficient? I've mocked up tube station signs (for various reasons) before in Photoshop with a red circle, a blue bar and the right font in white. (The 'old' Johnston font is commercially available, and is what many of the station roundels are done with. 'New' Johnston is not at all available outside of LU/TfL as far as I can see...) Sam -- Sam Holloway, Cambridge |
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"John Rowland" wrote the
following in: "Robin May" wrote in message .4... I now need to get out with the camera and try taking some photos of the various station signs. If you're trying to make a composite image of a tube sign that says "TOSSER", you need to consider the size and spacing. For best results, find a combination of 6-letter station names which contain TOSER between them. I'd been thinking about that. I thought I'd definitely need to get one station with all the necessary letters because colour, size and lettering would vary slightly between stations. I'd assumed though that once I'd gone to such a station I could play around with resizing the letters and the finished word to make it fit the sign. Would other factors prevent this from being effective? I might have a bit of trouble with getting a nice looking match between the resolution of the original photo and the resized lettering but if the difference isn't too great or I resize the finished picture (lowering the resolution) I thought this wouldn't be too much of a problem. -- message by Robin May, but you can call me Mr Smith. Hello. I'm one of those "roaring fascists of the left wing". Then and than are different words! |
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Sam Holloway wrote the following in:
On 11 Nov 2003 00:11:18 GMT, Robin May wrote: I now need to get out with the camera and try taking some photos of the various station signs. I assumed that's what you were thinking of. Would drawing it 'by hand' not be sufficient? I've mocked up tube station signs (for various reasons) before in Photoshop with a red circle, a blue bar and the right font in white. (The 'old' Johnston font is commercially available, and is what many of the station roundels are done with. 'New' Johnston is not at all available outside of LU/TfL as far as I can see...) I have got a mock up, but it's not quite as real as I'd like: http://personal.lse.ac.uk/mayr/tubetossergif.gif That's the small version, but the bigger version looks a bit dodgy. -- message by Robin May, but you can call me Mr Smith. Hello. I'm one of those "roaring fascists of the left wing". Then and than are different words! |
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"Robin May" wrote in message
.4... Sam Holloway wrote the following in: On 11 Nov 2003 00:11:18 GMT, Robin May wrote: I now need to get out with the camera and try taking some photos of the various station signs. I assumed that's what you were thinking of. Would drawing it 'by hand' not be sufficient? I've mocked up tube station signs (for various reasons) before in Photoshop with a red circle, a blue bar and the right font in white. (The 'old' Johnston font is commercially available, and is what many of the station roundels are done with. 'New' Johnston is not at all available outside of LU/TfL as far as I can see...) I have got a mock up, but it's not quite as real as I'd like: http://personal.lse.ac.uk/mayr/tubetossergif.gif That's the small version, but the bigger version looks a bit dodgy. If you want fonts, then dafonts seems to offer a reasonable free one: http://www.dafont.com/en/search.php?nq=1&q=london+tube Angus |
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On 11 Nov 2003 16:27:39 GMT, Robin May
wrote: Sam Holloway wrote the following in: I assumed that's what you were thinking of. Would drawing it 'by hand' not be sufficient? I've mocked up tube station signs (for various reasons) before in Photoshop with a red circle, a blue bar and the right font in white. (The 'old' Johnston font is commercially available, and is what many of the station roundels are done with. 'New' Johnston is not at all available outside of LU/TfL as far as I can see...) I have got a mock up, but it's not quite as real as I'd like: http://personal.lse.ac.uk/mayr/tubetossergif.gif That's the small version, but the bigger version looks a bit dodgy. Here's my attempt from my template. (File will be available for the next few days...) http://www.samholloway.co.uk/tosser.gif (if this was a cunning joke to get someone to post an URL that makes them sound stupid, you've just won) :-) The colours are directly taken from colours on TfL's website so they should match well. If that's good enough for your needs, then by all means download and use it (and if you need a different size or format, let me know), otherwise I look forward to seeing the photo-montage version! Sam -- Sam Holloway, Cambridge |
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Sam Holloway wrote the following in:
Here's my attempt from my template. (File will be available for the next few days...) http://www.samholloway.co.uk/tosser.gif Ooh, that's very very good. Thank you very much. (if this was a cunning joke to get someone to post an URL that makes them sound stupid, you've just won) :-) Nah, I beat you by posting one myself first! The colours are directly taken from colours on TfL's website so they should match well. If that's good enough for your needs, then by all means download and use it (and if you need a different size or format, let me know), otherwise I look forward to seeing the photo-montage version! It's definitely very real and proper looking, but I think I'll still give the photo-montage a go. After all, I've got a list of all these suitable stations now and it'd be a shame not to see what it'll look like if I do try it. -- message by Robin May, but you can call me Mr Smith. Hello. I'm one of those "roaring fascists of the left wing". Then and than are different words! |
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"Sam Holloway" wrote in message
... Here's my attempt from my template. (File will be available for the next few days...) http://www.samholloway.co.uk/tosser.gif I don't want to criticise, oh okay, I do... I think the red circle is too thin. -- 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 |
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Peter Smyth:
Can anyone find the two stations which contain the letters "******S"? Easy, even without computer assistance, if you guess to look at stations starting with K or W. Kew Gardens, Westbourne Park. -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible" | -- Lord Kelvin |
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On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 01:49:55 -0000, "John Rowland"
wrote: "Sam Holloway" wrote in message .. . Here's my attempt from my template. (File will be available for the next few days...) http://www.samholloway.co.uk/tosser.gif I don't want to criticise, oh okay, I do... I think the red circle is too thin. Yes, I agree. While I attempted to accurately match the colours and font, I didn't have sufficient time to tweak the geometry of the circle and bar. (The template was required for a meeting at short notice - ok, not required, just looked nice on the presentation handouts.) :-) If I get a chance, I'll give it a tweak. Sam -- Sam Holloway, Cambridge |
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On 11 Nov 2003 22:21:25 GMT, Robin May
wrote: Sam Holloway wrote the following in: Here's my attempt from my template. (File will be available for the next few days...) snippage It's definitely very real and proper looking, but I think I'll still give the photo-montage a go. After all, I've got a list of all these suitable stations now and it'd be a shame not to see what it'll look like if I do try it. Definitely - I'd like to see how the photo montage comes out. Some years ago I wanted the image of a roundel with my name in it, but then again I'm fortunate in that my surname appears in full in one station name, so in the end I just got a photo taken with me leaning against the 'Road' part to obscure it. Very cheesy. Sam -- Sam Holloway, Cambridge |
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In message , Sam Holloway
writes Some years ago I wanted the image of a roundel with my name in it, but then again I'm fortunate in that my surname appears in full in one station name, so in the end I just got a photo taken with me leaning against the 'Road' part to obscure it. Very cheesy. You could have your pic taken outside the prison too.... -- Kat Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea - Robert A. Heinlein |
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In article ,
Kat wrote: In message , Sam Holloway writes Some years ago I wanted the image of a roundel with my name in it, but then again I'm fortunate in that my surname appears in full in one station name, so in the end I just got a photo taken with me leaning against the 'Road' part to obscure it. Very cheesy. You could have your pic taken outside the prison too.... For that, the cheesiness factor depends, in part, on what Sam is short for. -- Good night little fishey-wishes.... I've counted you, so no sneaky eating each other. -- FW (should I worry?) |
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On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:02:07 +0000 (UTC), Mike Bristow
wrote: In article , Kat wrote: In message , Sam Holloway writes Some years ago I wanted the image of a roundel with my name in it, but then again I'm fortunate in that my surname appears in full in one station name, so in the end I just got a photo taken with me leaning against the 'Road' part to obscure it. Very cheesy. You could have your pic taken outside the prison too.... For that, the cheesiness factor depends, in part, on what Sam is short for. Good point grin. I'm a Samuel. :-) Sam -- Sam Holloway, Cambridge |
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JRS: In article , seen in
news:uk.transport.london, Mark Brader posted at Wed, 12 Nov 2003 05:56:53 :- Easy, even without computer assistance, if you guess to look at stations starting with K or W. Kew Gardens, Westbourne Park. Have you considered the significance of Stamford Brook & Wimbledon Park? -- © John Stockton, Surrey, UK. Turnpike v4.00 MIME. © Web URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/ - FAQish topics, acronyms, & links. For more on our news hierarchy news:uk.*, see newsgroups news:uk.answers and news:uk.net.news.*, and URL:http://www.usenet.org.uk/. |
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Sam Holloway wrote:
On 11 Nov 2003 22:21:25 GMT, Robin May wrote: Sam Holloway wrote the following in: Here's my attempt from my template. (File will be available for the next few days...) snippage It's definitely very real and proper looking, but I think I'll still give the photo-montage a go. After all, I've got a list of all these suitable stations now and it'd be a shame not to see what it'll look like if I do try it. Definitely - I'd like to see how the photo montage comes out. Some years ago I wanted the image of a roundel with my name in it, but then again I'm fortunate in that my surname appears in full in one station name, so in the end I just got a photo taken with me leaning against the 'Road' part to obscure it. Very cheesy. Whoever you are making the TOSSER sign for, couldn't you just do the same as the above by standing in front of the ARSENAL sign instead? :-) dave |
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"Dave Newt" wrote in message ... Sam Holloway wrote: On 11 Nov 2003 22:21:25 GMT, Robin May wrote: Sam Holloway wrote the following in: Here's my attempt from my template. (File will be available for the next few days...) snippage It's definitely very real and proper looking, but I think I'll still give the photo-montage a go. After all, I've got a list of all these suitable stations now and it'd be a shame not to see what it'll look like if I do try it. Definitely - I'd like to see how the photo montage comes out. Some years ago I wanted the image of a roundel with my name in it, but then again I'm fortunate in that my surname appears in full in one station name, so in the end I just got a photo taken with me leaning against the 'Road' part to obscure it. Very cheesy. Whoever you are making the TOSSER sign for, couldn't you just do the same as the above by standing in front of the ARSENAL sign instead? :-) Good game at the weekend, wern't it...;-) -- Cheers, Steve. If The Good Lord had meant for us to be fiscally prudent, He would not have given us the platinum credit card... Change colour to PC Plod's lights to reply. |
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