Marine themed smartcards
 

Merseytravel have followed the trend for marine-named smartcards by
introducing the Walrus card

http://www.walruscard.com/index.asp

Marine themed smartcards
 

On 2011\09\19 18:05, Matthew Dickinson wrote:
Merseytravel have followed the trend for marine-named smartcards by
introducing the Walrus card

http://www.walruscard.com/index.asp

That's actually a Beatles theme!

Marine themed smartcards
 

On Sep 19, 6:38*pm, Basil Jet wrote:

On 2011\09\19 18:05, Matthew Dickinson wrote:

Merseytravel have followed the trend for marine-named smartcards by
introducing the Walrus card

http://www.walruscard.com/index.asp

That's actually a Beatles theme!

London should have had the Jellied Eel card of course.

Marine themed smartcards
 

London should have had the Jellied Eel card of course.

But could never have happened:

a. not something the Islington political class eat*; and
b. not multicultural - indeed quite culturally insensitive.

*There was the wonderful (no doubt apocryphal) story of Peter Mandelson
going into a chippie to try to boost his older Labour credential and
asking for haddock, chips and "some of that guacamole" - mistaking the
mushy peas for avocado dip.
--
Robin
PM may be sent to rbw0{at}hotmail{dot}com

Marine themed smartcards
 

On Sep 19, 8:27*pm, Mizter T wrote:

On Sep 19, 6:38*pm, Basil Jet wrote:

On 2011\09\19 18:05, Matthew Dickinson wrote:

Merseytravel have followed the trend for marine-named smartcards by
introducing the Walrus card

http://www.walruscard.com/index.asp

That's actually a Beatles theme!

London should have had the Jellied Eel card of course.

The Cockel Card scans rather better though.

Marine themed smartcards
 

On Sep 19, 8:42*pm, Mizter T wrote:
On Sep 19, 8:27*pm, Mizter T wrote:

On Sep 19, 6:38*pm, Basil Jet wrote:

On 2011\09\19 18:05, Matthew Dickinson wrote:

Merseytravel have followed the trend for marine-named smartcards by
introducing the Walrus card

http://www.walruscard.com/index.asp

That's actually a Beatles theme!

London should have had the Jellied Eel card of course.

The Cockel Card scans rather better though.

Needs a bit of mussel, though.

Marine themed smartcards
 

On Sep 19, 8:42*pm, "Robin" wrote:

London should have had the Jellied Eel card of course.

But could never have happened:

a. * *not something the Islington political class eat*; and
b. * *not multicultural - indeed quite culturally insensitive.

Sigh... welcome to the comments section of Britain's best selling mid-
market paper.


*There was the wonderful (no doubt apocryphal) story of Peter Mandelson
going into a chippie to try to boost his older Labour credential and
asking for haddock, chips and "some of that guacamole" - mistaking the
mushy peas for avocado dip.

If we were to want to talk about vaguely transport related apocryphal
sayings, then how that which was (and still is) widely misattributed
to Maggie about men over 26/30 on buses being failures in life.

What other classic misattribitions or apocryphal stories are there in
the railway (or public transport) world?

Marine themed smartcards
 

Mizter T wrote on 19 September 2011 20:27:28 ...

On Sep 19, 6:38 pm, Basil wrote:

On 2011\09\19 18:05, Matthew Dickinson wrote:

Merseytravel have followed the trend for marine-named smartcards by
introducing the Walrus card

http://www.walruscard.com/index.asp

That's actually a Beatles theme!

London should have had the Jellied Eel card of course.

What's wrong with Oyster? As observed by Senior Museum of London
archaeologist Julian Bowsher: "Oysters were in fact the staple diet of
the poor, right up to the Victorian period, and certainly we find oyster
shells by the thousand on nearly every archaeological site we do."
--
Richard J.
(to email me, swap 'uk' and 'yon' in address)

Marine themed smartcards
 

On 2011\09\19 20:42, Mizter T wrote:

On Sep 19, 8:27 pm, Mizter wrote:

On Sep 19, 6:38 pm, Basil wrote:

On 2011\09\19 18:05, Matthew Dickinson wrote:

Merseytravel have followed the trend for marine-named smartcards by
introducing the Walrus card

http://www.walruscard.com/index.asp

That's actually a Beatles theme!

London should have had the Jellied Eel card of course.

The Cockel Card scans rather better though.

You know what that would be instantly nicknamed though...

Marine themed smartcards
 

On 19/09/2011 18:05, Matthew Dickinson wrote:
Merseytravel have followed the trend for marine-named smartcards by
introducing the Walrus card

http://www.walruscard.com/index.asp

Cool. Are they going to have a Cod card or a Haddock card for Scotland,
I wonder?

I wonder how they came up with the term Oystercard to begin with, however?

Anyway, will Walrus cards be compatible at places that accept
Oystercards, or vice-versa?