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- From: P.A.Foulkes@bradford.ac.uk (Pete Foulkes)
- Newsgroups: rec.railroad,uk.misc
- Subject: Re: Small Gods Annotations
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.144244.10642@bradford.ac.uk>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 14:42:44 GMT
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- In article <728033204snx@warren.demon.co.uk> leveret@warren.demon.co.uk writes:
- >Daniel@scs.leeds.ac.uk (where *has* he been?) writes:
- >>|>
- >>|> British Rail (last winter I think) were having difficulty getting
- >>|> trains to run on time and they blamed it on the snow. They
- >>|> were then quizzed as to why their snow-ploughs couldn't deal with it.
- >>|> They replied that it was "the wrong sort of snow". (perhaps this story
- >>|> was leaves first, I can't remember). Again "the wrong sort of X" is
- >>|> now part of the idiom.
- >>
- >
- >And I have *never*, *ever* heard of your "wrong kind of leaves" story.
- >Please suppy a reference for it.
- >
-
- My recollection is that it wasn't the "wrong kind of leaves" it
- was just "leaves on the track".
-
- Of course you don't expect a shock fall of leaves on the track
- in Autumn. :-)
-
-
- Peter.
-