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06-01.-2005, 08:21 AM
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Recumbent causes rider to miss train...
On account of having to field a BBC Radio Berkshire interviewer
outside the station who obviously had nothing better to do than ask me about my bike and my headtorch. Guy -- "then came ye chavves, theyre cartes girded wyth candels blue, and theyre beastes wyth straynge horn-lyke thyngs onn theyre arses that theyre fartes be herde from myles around." Chaucer, the Sheppey Tales |
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06-01.-2005, 08:58 AM
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Re: Recumbent causes rider to miss train...
Just zis Guy, you know? wrote:
> On account of having to field a BBC Radio Berkshire interviewer > outside the station who obviously had nothing better to do than ask me > about my bike and my headtorch. It takes two to make an interview... obviously you had little better to do also! ;-) Pete. |
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06-01.-2005, 09:35 AM
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Re: Recumbent causes rider to miss train...
"Just zis Guy, you know?" wrote:
> > On account of having to field a BBC Radio Berkshire interviewer > outside the station who obviously had nothing better to do than ask me > about my bike and my headtorch. Yes, heard lt. Just a few seconds though You must cut your timings tight to miss your train. I did like the lady who said she took her bike on the train in order to use it at both ends of her journey and her comment on the sometimes less than positive attitude by some train staff. John B |
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06-01.-2005, 09:51 AM
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Re: Recumbent causes rider to miss train...
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 23:35:44 +0000, JohnB <nospam@here.com> wrote in
message <41DC79D1.D6A4B5A4@here.com>: >You must cut your timings tight to miss your train. I'm usually on the platform before the train arrives. Usually. Guy -- "then came ye chavves, theyre cartes girded wyth candels blue, and theyre beastes wyth straynge horn-lyke thyngs onn theyre arses that theyre fartes be herde from myles around." Chaucer, the Sheppey Tales |
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06-01.-2005, 08:58 PM
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Re: Recumbent causes rider to miss train...
Just zis Guy, you know? wrote:
> > I'm usually on the platform before the train arrives. Usually. > Is that a comment on your punctuality or the trains? Tony |
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06-01.-2005, 09:02 PM
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Re: Recumbent causes rider to miss train...
Tony Raven wrote:
> > Just zis Guy, you know? wrote: > > > > I'm usually on the platform before the train arrives. Usually. > > > > Is that a comment on your punctuality or the trains? Point of order. You cannot use punctuality and trains in the same sentence. John B |
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06-01.-2005, 09:15 PM
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Re: Recumbent causes rider to miss train...
JohnB wrote:
> Tony Raven wrote: > >>Just zis Guy, you know? wrote: >> >>>I'm usually on the platform before the train arrives. Usually. >>> >> >>Is that a comment on your punctuality or the trains? > > > Point of order. > You cannot use punctuality and trains in the same sentence. Surely the sentence, "Virgin Trains failed to meet its punctuality targets." is grammatically correct. Colin |
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06-01.-2005, 09:19 PM
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Re: Recumbent causes rider to miss train...
JohnB wrote:
> Tony Raven wrote: > >>Just zis Guy, you know? wrote: >> >>>I'm usually on the platform before the train arrives. Usually. >>> >> >>Is that a comment on your punctuality or the trains? > > > Point of order. > You cannot use punctuality and trains in the same sentence. > > John B Mr Chairman, my learned colleague has just himself demonstrated that you can indeed use punctuality and trains in the same sentence and I move that his Point of Order be dismissed. Tony |
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06-01.-2005, 09:49 PM
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Re: Recumbent causes rider to miss train...
Colin Blackburn wrote:
> Surely the sentence, "Virgin Trains failed to meet its punctuality > targets." is grammatically correct. True, but it's something of a tautology. Just saying "Virgin Trains" tells you all you need to know... ;-/ Pete. -- Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK net p.j.clinch@dundee.ac.uk http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/ |
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06-01.-2005, 11:24 PM
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Re: Recumbent causes rider to miss train...
in message <crj6it$pcb$1@heffalump.dur.ac.uk>, Colin Blackburn
('colin.blackburn@durham.ac.uk') wrote: > JohnB wrote: >> Tony Raven wrote: >> >>>Just zis Guy, you know? wrote: >>> >>>>I'm usually on the platform before the train arrives. Usually. >>> >>>Is that a comment on your punctuality or the trains? >> >> Point of order. >> You cannot use punctuality and trains in the same sentence. > > Surely the sentence, "Virgin Trains failed to meet its punctuality > targets." is grammatically correct. Yes, but it's a tautology. -- simon@jasmine.org.uk (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/ my other car is #<Subr-Car: #5d480> ;; This joke is not funny in emacs. |
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08-01.-2005, 03:00 AM
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Re: Recumbent causes rider to miss train...
"Simon Brooke" <simon@jasmine.org.uk> wrote in message
news:loqva2-vpl.ln1@gododdin.internal.jasmine.org.uk... > in message <crj6it$pcb$1@heffalump.dur.ac.uk>, Colin Blackburn > ('colin.blackburn@durham.ac.uk') wrote: > > > JohnB wrote: > >> Tony Raven wrote: > >> > >>>Just zis Guy, you know? wrote: > >>> > >>>>I'm usually on the platform before the train arrives. Usually. > >>> > >>>Is that a comment on your punctuality or the trains? > >> > >> Point of order. > >> You cannot use punctuality and trains in the same sentence. > > > > Surely the sentence, "Virgin Trains failed to meet its punctuality > > targets." is grammatically correct. > > Yes, but it's a tautology. > news:uk.railway is thataway ====>> and <<=== news:uk.grammar should be thataway :-) -- MatSav |
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08-01.-2005, 08:07 PM
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Re: Recumbent causes rider to miss train...
MatSav wrote:
> > news:uk.railway is thataway ====>> > > and > > <<=== news:uk.grammar should be thataway :-) Which way for news:uk.netcop? -- Dave... Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. - H. G. Wells |
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08-01.-2005, 09:50 PM
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Re: Recumbent causes rider to miss train...
On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 10:58:26 +0000, Tony Raven <junk@raven-family.com>
wrote in message <344jugF475iijU3@individual.net>: >> I'm usually on the platform before the train arrives. Usually. >Is that a comment on your punctuality or the trains? It's the result of the new timetable - my train is now four minutes earlier in the mornings, and my morning routine has not yet caught up - it means leaving the house slightly before, rather than slightly after, a quarter to eight. Guy -- "then came ye chavves, theyre cartes girded wyth candels blue, and theyre beastes wyth straynge horn-lyke thyngs onn theyre arses that theyre fartes be herde from myles around." Chaucer, the Sheppey Tales |
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09-01.-2005, 12:44 AM
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Re: Recumbent causes rider to miss train...
On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 11:50:00 +0000, "Just zis Guy, you know?"
<uce@ftc.gov> wrote: > >It's the result of the new timetable - my train is now four minutes >earlier in the mornings, and my morning routine has not yet caught up >- it means leaving the house slightly before, rather than slightly >after, a quarter to eight. Similar problem here. Train now leaves at 7:55 not 8:05. Have yet to catch it. Have spent twenty minutes waiting for next train every time so far. Also been rather late for work. |
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09-01.-2005, 01:11 AM
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Re: Recumbent causes rider to miss train...
On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 14:44:08 +0000, Al C-F
<aloysius_cholmondeley_featherstonehawe@hotmail.com> wrote in message <vasvt0tkafe1kv4jaenilgk5c1vjmdkvun@4ax.com>: >>It's the result of the new timetable - my train is now four minutes >>earlier in the mornings, and my morning routine has not yet caught up >>- it means leaving the house slightly before, rather than slightly >>after, a quarter to eight. >Similar problem here. Train now leaves at 7:55 not 8:05. Have yet to >catch it. Have spent twenty minutes waiting for next train every time >so far. It's not so bad for me - there's a 7:58 from platform 8 (which is coincidentally both the time and the platform of the old train) but it stops at every lamp-post so I prefer the slightly earlier one which is direct. And one of these days I'll get a Brompton so I can catch the 8ish from Platform 4 which is an express. Guy -- "then came ye chavves, theyre cartes girded wyth candels blue, and theyre beastes wyth straynge horn-lyke thyngs onn theyre arses that theyre fartes be herde from myles around." Chaucer, the Sheppey Tales |
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