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Mizter T · December 19th 06, 03:40 PM posted to uk.transport.london

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Mizter T wrote:

Fig wrote:
So...change it. That is what Wikipedia is for!

No need to - you've misunderstood what Mike Harrison was saying.
Re-read his comments and you'll see that he doesn't disagree with the
Wikipedia entry, quite the opposite in fact - he states that the
Wikipedia entry rightfully notes that RTs are often mistakenly called
Routemasters...

Thanks for picking that up for me - My name's Harvey, though, and I
said that Wikipedia "ruefully" (but rightly!) noted that RTs etc....
never mind...

Arrrgh - the curse of using Google Groups to post to usenet strikes
again! I called you Mike Harrison as your email address is displayed as
" (i.e. incomplete and with the dots) in
Google Groups - it's an anti-spam measure, though the full address can
be displayed but one has to complete a "captcha" first [1]. For some
reason I had it in my head that you were a Mike Harrison, having read
many of your other posts. I suspect the fact that I know a Mike
Harrison led me to mistakenly attribute that moniker to you as well. My
most humble apologies!

And yes I did see that you said Wikipedia "ruefully" noted the common
confusion - having read the Wikipedia entry I must admit I didn't
really get the sense that it was a rueful note, which in a way is just
as well as Wikipedia isn't supposed to have an opinion! Nonetheless any
one persons reading of the meaning of any given text can of course be
different. I was however careful not to put quotation marks around what
what I said you had stated in your earlier post given that I wasn't
quoting you exactly - perhaps I should've just quoted you exactly!

Anyway I shall be careful not to misrepresent you in the future, not
least by using your correct name ;-)

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha