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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!pagesat!netsys!news.cerf.net!network.ucsd.edu!ucsbcsl!mcl!ubigpig
  2. From: ubigpig@mcl.ucsb.edu (Jeremy Dodd)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
  4. Subject: Re: discrepency in Guide
  5. Message-ID: <ubigpig.727663708@mcl>
  6. Date: 22 Jan 93 00:48:28 GMT
  7. References: <C11Hp1.HFF@sdf.lonestar.org> <1993Jan18.145242.7120@ugle.unit.no> <1jgbrtINNbmd@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
  8. Sender: root@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu
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  11. In <1jgbrtINNbmd@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> ensalada@cats.ucsc.edu (Kevin Charles Rubio) writes:
  12.  
  13. >From what I can recall seeing video of London, theirs have no borders,
  14. >and the white stripes run horizontally to the pedestrian.  Is that right,
  15. >or am I confusing it with the Tokyo style?  Oh dear, now I sound like some
  16. >crosswalk enthusiast.
  17.  
  18. Check out the cover of "Abbey Road" by the Beatles.  There's a crosswalk (zebra
  19. crossing) oin that picture.
  20.  
  21. Incidentally, the radio program states that man goes on to be killed "at the
  22. next PEDESTRIAN crossing."  Odd, that.
  23.                         -=<(JD)>=-
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