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[pip]

Incidentally, The Bank of England is in a street in London named Threadneedle Street. It was named this after the erm... Seamstresses who worked in that street. Before it got that name it had a much more vulgar nickname, which I won't be able to post on this forum.

PM ME. PM ME!

I just looked it up on Wikipedia. You sure you'd want to know it? You might live to regret it. It starts with 'G', is made of two words, one of them an expletive. That's all I will say here.

Wow. Only the english could name a street that

 

[Penfold]

Just looked it up for myself!

 

[The Mad Collector]

It was quite a common street name and existed in several towns and cities including Bristol, Hereford, Norwich, Newcastle upon Tyne, Oxford, Shrewsbury, Worcester and York. They are mainly renamed Grape Lane or something similar

 

[deldaisy]

here tis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threadneedle_Street

 

[pip]

here tis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threadneedle_Street

Don't follow dels link if you're sensitive or prudish in any way.

 

[DaveC]

Just read it. Feels like being whisked back to Sweeney Todd times.

 

[deldaisy]

Well gee Pip... I posted that so that everone didn't have to hunt for it... and you DO have to search for the word....

Cabbages!

The cabbages was never a problem for me. It didn't occur to me that you don't drive for days past the SAME crop up there. We do here. When I was a child we lived in grain country. Stations thousands of miles in area and EVERY single one of them grew wheat! Then when I was 16 I moved up north and you drove for hours towards the coast through beef country. Brahams everywhere. You drove accordingly. Then the sorgum fields or the sunflower fields. Then when you hit the coast it was hours and hours or sugar cane fields. Damn boring driving when the cane is ready and it feels like you are driving along corridors for hours. No scenery at all. Do the same trip a week after the harvest and you see mountains and sea and EVERYTHING! Something to remember if you come as a tourist to Australia. And yes the areas have giant bulls in concrete or giant pineapples, or crossed canes of sugar cane over the council chambers.

Funny how you take things for granted.

 

[Quatermass]

Cabbages!

ARRRRGGGHHHHH!!!!

*Cue cliffhanger screech from Doctor Who*

Thank you very much, deldaisy. Now I'll never look at brassica the same way again!

(Yes, I am joking, but I'm sure that IRL, if you saw that, finding clean underwear would immediately jump to number one on the list...)

 

[Anonymous]

Okay, I got one for which I feel a bit stupid...I concerns some of the merchandise. The UU scarf to be precisely:
Does it have tassels?

 

[Tonyblack]

Okay, I got one for which I feel a bit stupid...I concerns some of the merchandise. The UU scarf to be precisely:
Does it have tassels?

Not the ones I've seen. It's made very much like a modern university scarf.

 

[Anonymous]

Ah, thanks (tassels would have been a extra plus XD I love tassels. I'll order it anyway, most likely)

Another question:

Is there any short story in which the bursar turns into a piano cause Stibbons couldn't take back a comment about Mimikry in time?

A big part of my brain tells me it's a real story...

 

[Tonyblack]

Ah, thanks (tassels would have been a extra plus XD I love tassels. I'll order it anyway, most likely)

Another question:

Is there any short story in which the bursar turns into a piano cause Stibbons couldn't take back a comment about Mimikry in time?

A big part of my brain tells me it's a real story...

It's not ringing any bells with me.

 

[Anonymous]

Ah, thanks (tassels would have been a extra plus XD I love tassels. I'll order it anyway, most likely)

Another question:

Is there any short story in which the bursar turns into a piano cause Stibbons couldn't take back a comment about Mimikry in time?

A big part of my brain tells me it's a real story...

It's not ringing any bells with me.

Where the heck did I read it? And...did I read it at all...Gods, I HATE it when that happens

 

[Tonyblack]

Maybe one of the science books? I haven't read them all.

 

[DaveC]

Don't think it is one of the Sciences...

 

[Bouncy Castle]

........bursar turns into a piano cause Stibbons .......

The Bursar probably thought he was a piano.

 

[Anonymous]

........bursar turns into a piano cause Stibbons .......

The Bursar probably thought he was a piano.

Possible...but where the heck did I read that?! (that's eating away my sanity atm, seriously)

 

[archerinwood]

susan

Susan is said to be clever and logical, and yet she then goes on to say that her only grandfather is Lezek. Now surely this is something seriously contradicting her logicality.

 

[Tonyblack]

Re: susan

Susan is said to be clever and logical, and yet she then goes on to say that her only grandfather is Lezek. Now surely this is something seriously contradicting her logicality.

Not really. Susan had met Death when she was very small. Her parents decided that seeing him wasn't good for her. She seems to have gotten her logic from them. So they kept her away and hoped she'd forget about Death.

She managed to push him to the back of her mind and it was only later events that triggered those memories. This is isn't uncommon. We can forget about things for years and then, suddenly, something will cause us to remember them again.

 

[deldaisy]

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