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- From: nigelm@ohm.york.ac.uk (Nigel Metheringham)
- Newsgroups: rec.railroad,uk.misc
- Subject: Re: Small Gods Annotations
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.150150.23466@ohm.york.ac.uk>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 15:01:50 GMT
- References: <728033204snx@warren.demon.co.uk> <1993Jan26.144244.10642@bradford.ac.uk>
- Organization: Electronics Department, University of York, UK
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- In <1993Jan26.144244.10642@bradford.ac.uk> P.A.Foulkes@bradford.ac.uk (Pete Foulkes) writes:
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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. :-)
-
- My impression was that BR as usual were complaining about leaves on
- the track, and then everyone who thought themselves any form of
- satirist started turning this into "the wrong kind of leaves".
-
- I certainly heard The News Quiz (R4) or similar make this sort of
- funny, and I believe that many of the tabloid headline writers
- couldn't resist it!
-
- Nigel.
-
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