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This week, with the opening of the "new, improved" St Pancras Station and the transfer of Eurostar services thereto, I do wish people would learn to pronounce the name of the place properly rather than calling it "St Pancreas".
It's rather like the number of gentlemen who receive medical treatment for their "prostrate".
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Oft hat ein Seufzer, deiner Harf' entflossen,
Ein süßer, heiliger Akkord von dir
Den Himmel beßrer Zeiten mir erschlossen,
Du holde Kunst, ich danke dir dafür!
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This week, with the opening of the "new, improved" St Pancras Station and the transfer of Eurostar services thereto, I do wish people would learn to pronounce the name of the place properly rather than calling it "St Pancreas".
Perhaps they're being influenced by the other "body part" termini - Liverpool Street and Marylebone. |
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When Philip Larkin, he of the Brynmor Jones Library at Hull, actually met Brynmor Jones at a do there he said it felt a bit like going to St Pancras Station and bumping into St Pancras in the ticket office.
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This week, with the opening of the "new, improved" St Pancras Station and the transfer of Eurostar services thereto, I do wish people would learn to pronounce the name of the place properly rather than calling it "St Pancreas".
It's rather like the number of gentlemen who receive medical treatment for their "prostrate".
I quite often had treatment for prostrate trouble in my youth - usually on a Friday night; and I'd awake to discover I'd had a historyectomy - at least as far as the events of the previous few hours were concerned. I drink much less now, I'm glad to say. As regards the Eurostar I must admit I was tempted, on reading Tuesday's BBC headline 'Last ever Eurostar from Waterloo departs 1812', to ask them if they couldn't make it 1815. |
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I had an email from Eurostar the other day proudly announcing that they'd worked out the journey time from my home address to their new terminal, and I could now get there in 38 minutes. They didn't seem to have noticed that about 20 minutes into the journey described I would pass through Waterloo.  |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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BBC News front page: "Cliff Michelmore back on TV to host 1967 devolution special" Following the link reveals: "Cliff Michelmore returns to our screens to present the evening of programmes on Devaluation" Is the entire BBC News website written by sixth formers on work experience?!!!  |
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« Reply #336 on: 12:07:44, 22-11-2007 » |
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Caption on BBC South Today weather forecast this morning: "Becoming dryer" |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #337 on: 12:33:32, 22-11-2007 » |
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A Becoming Dryer  Well, I thought it was vaguely attractive. [martle, no making associations between me and the bike-man] Tommo |
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Made by Thompson & son, at the Violin & c. the West end of St. Paul's Churchyard, LONDON
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« Reply #338 on: 12:36:44, 22-11-2007 » |
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I have a nasty feeling where that one's going, Tommo. (Metaphorically, I'd better add.)
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Green. Always green.
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« Reply #340 on: 13:24:06, 22-11-2007 » |
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It was alright in principle, but as soon as you ran out of flex, you came down to earth with a bang. And if the dust bag burst you had twice as much sweeping to do.
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Click me -> About meor me -> my handmade storeNo, I'm not a complete idiot. I'm only a halfwit. In fact I'm actually a catfish. |
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« Reply #342 on: 13:30:38, 23-11-2007 » |
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And after posting that, Mum-in-law tells me that one snowy winter, she did come down the hill on the vacuum cleaner! I shall have to be more careful about what I say, and to whom.
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Click me -> About meor me -> my handmade storeNo, I'm not a complete idiot. I'm only a halfwit. In fact I'm actually a catfish. |
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« Reply #343 on: 14:51:19, 24-11-2007 » |
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Some further observations by way of context will perhaps not be go or come amiss.
Perhaps that should be punctuated as "will perhaps not be, go, or come amiss." Unless Member Grew is following the legal style in which case the initial capital and terminal full point should be omitted. |
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Click me -> About meor me -> my handmade storeNo, I'm not a complete idiot. I'm only a halfwit. In fact I'm actually a catfish. |
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Some further observations by way of context will perhaps not be go or come amiss.
Perhaps that should be punctuated as "will perhaps not be, go, or come amiss." Unless Member Grew is following the legal style in which case the initial capital and terminal full point should be omitted. "For a variety of reasons into which we shall not here very much go we are frequently misunderstood and this is one more small example."
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