Day Trip to Oxford + Chunnel to Paris
May 5th, 2006, 05:19 AM
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Yes, Guy has it spot on.
Again, Big Ben is annoying but a lost cause. Even British people get that one wrong.
Don't let's even get started on "Union Jack" as opposed to "Union Flag" ;-)
Again, Big Ben is annoying but a lost cause. Even British people get that one wrong.
Don't let's even get started on "Union Jack" as opposed to "Union Flag" ;-)
May 5th, 2006, 07:31 AM
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I've heard many a UK folk call New York the Big Apple and it doesn't bother me a twit. Or LA for Los Angeles - what's the difference?
And why do Brits have GB on their cars for the country instead of UK? who cares?
Ot the West End in London when really it's not in the west end of London a'tall.
And why do Brits have GB on their cars for the country instead of UK? who cares?
Ot the West End in London when really it's not in the west end of London a'tall.
May 5th, 2006, 08:28 AM
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I was in Oxford when I was twelve. Isn't there some kind of Lewis Carroll museum there? I remember Oxford as having pretty gardens, and living on fish and chips and digestives - but that's a 12-year old for you!
PalQ, I think the analogy of "Chunnel" and "Big Apple" is a good one - New Yorkers don't call the city "the Big Apple", only tourism campaigns and tourists do. (And the occasional political speech!) Kind of like calling Paris "Gay Paree". However in Boston, the SE Expressway redesign is still called The Big Dig. Or maybe that's just a media thing too...
PalQ, I think the analogy of "Chunnel" and "Big Apple" is a good one - New Yorkers don't call the city "the Big Apple", only tourism campaigns and tourists do. (And the occasional political speech!) Kind of like calling Paris "Gay Paree". However in Boston, the SE Expressway redesign is still called The Big Dig. Or maybe that's just a media thing too...
May 8th, 2006, 12:50 PM
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That's true Patrick - here in NYC we sure have a bunch!
Boston's is a *really* big dig - an entire city's worth of elevated highway put underground... The turnpike authority even had a website for a while called bigdig.com; now it redirects to http://www.masspike.com/bigdig/. Click on Project Background for a glimpse at the headaches... (I don't think the website mentions the 6 contractors who were just arrested for fraud related to faulty concrete LOL)
This project turned out to be so much larger than anticipated, so late, and so overbudget that NYC shelved a similar concept when it was still in the barest of planning stages. Ouch!
Boston's is a *really* big dig - an entire city's worth of elevated highway put underground... The turnpike authority even had a website for a while called bigdig.com; now it redirects to http://www.masspike.com/bigdig/. Click on Project Background for a glimpse at the headaches... (I don't think the website mentions the 6 contractors who were just arrested for fraud related to faulty concrete LOL)
This project turned out to be so much larger than anticipated, so late, and so overbudget that NYC shelved a similar concept when it was still in the barest of planning stages. Ouch!
