On 14/06/2015 11:18, Paul Corfield wrote:
On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 08:56:57 +0000 (UTC), Recliner
wrote:

But we have the Boris Bus, Boris Bike, and would-be
Boris Island, but no Ken Fare, Ken Train, Ken Card, Ken Tram, etc.

I've heard "Kengestion charge"

All that proves is that Boris is a bigger egomaniac than Ken was and
he was no shrinking violet.

Or that "Barclays cycle hire" is too much or a mouthful, and "New Bus
for (4?) London or is it New Routemaster?" is too confused.

And it's not new; speed limits are here to stay and the Pillbox Affair
is now pretty much forgotten, but the ghost of Baron Hore-Belisha still
lives on in the form of street furniture.

--
Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK

There is one person who is closely associated with London, but has never uttered the phrases "Boris Bike" or "Boris Bus". That person is Boris Johnson.

Steve Lewis wrote:
There is one person who is closely associated with London, but has never
uttered the phrases "Boris Bike" or "Boris Bus". That person is Boris Johnson.

Yes, it's other people who come up with these descriptions, not Boris
himself. One does get the impression that he doesn't object to them,
though.

On 14/06/2015 17:09, Recliner wrote:

Steve Lewis wrote:
There is one person who is closely associated with London, but has never
uttered the phrases "Boris Bike" or "Boris Bus". That person is Boris Johnson.

Yes, it's other people who come up with these descriptions, not Boris
himself. One does get the impression that he doesn't object to them,
though.


Of course he doesn't!

I wonder whether the value of the new sponsorship for the cycle hire
scheme was in any way affected by the knowledge that they're widely
referred to as 'Boris Bikes', and not 'Barclays Bikes' as was, or now
'Santander Cycles'.

(I vaguely wonder if that was a factor in Barclays pulling their
sponsorship - that, and the fact it emanated from the toxic Bob Diamond
era of the bank. That said, Barclays are also not renewing their long
standing Premier League sponsorship as of 2016, so perhaps it's just a
strategic change of direction. Interesting that the new cycle hire
sponsor is also a bank though.)

On 2015-06-14 15:10:08 +0000, Arthur Figgis said:

I've heard "Kengestion charge"

"Kengestion tax", please

All that proves is that Boris is a bigger egomaniac than Ken was and
he was no shrinking violet.

Or that "Barclays cycle hire" is too much or a mouthful, and "New Bus
for (4?) London or is it New Routemaster?" is too confused.

Not to mention that the Spanish armada has sailed in, and so it's now
Santander Cycles. It'd perhaps be better if they thought of a catchier
generic name for it.

Neil
--
Neil Williams
Put my first name before the @ to reply.

On 14/06/2015 18:32, Neil Williams wrote:
On 2015-06-14 15:10:08 +0000, Arthur Figgis said:

I've heard "Kengestion charge"

"Kengestion tax", please

All that proves is that Boris is a bigger egomaniac than Ken was and
he was no shrinking violet.

Or that "Barclays cycle hire" is too much or a mouthful, and "New Bus
for (4?) London or is it New Routemaster?" is too confused.

Not to mention that the Spanish armada has sailed in, and so it's now
Santander Cycles. It'd perhaps be better if they thought of a catchier
generic name for it.

The inevitable "New Bikes for London" wouldn't be much better.


--
Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK

On 14/06/2015 18:50, Arthur Figgis wrote:

On 14/06/2015 18:32, Neil Williams wrote:
[...]
All that proves is that Boris is a bigger egomaniac than Ken was and
he was no shrinking violet.

Or that "Barclays cycle hire" is too much or a mouthful, and "New Bus
for (4?) London or is it New Routemaster?" is too confused.

Not to mention that the Spanish armada has sailed in, and so it's now
Santander Cycles. It'd perhaps be better if they thought of a catchier
generic name for it.

The inevitable "New Bikes for London" wouldn't be much better.

Of course if you want to invite sponsorship, you don't think up a catchy
generic name - the sponsor wants it to be theirs.

In article , (Mizter T) wrote:

Of course if you want to invite sponsorship, you don't think up a
catchy generic name - the sponsor wants it to be theirs.

That worked so well for Barclays, didn't it?

--
Colin Rosenstiel

On 2015\06\14 20:28, wrote:
In article , (Mizter T) wrote:

Of course if you want to invite sponsorship, you don't think up a
catchy generic name - the sponsor wants it to be theirs.

That worked so well for Barclays, didn't it?

If they'd written "Barclaybikes" on the side instead of just "Barclays"
I think it would have caught on.

On 15/06/2015 22:50, Basil Jet wrote:

On 2015\06\14 20:28, wrote:
In article , (Mizter T)
wrote:

Of course if you want to invite sponsorship, you don't think up a
catchy generic name - the sponsor wants it to be theirs.

That worked so well for Barclays, didn't it?

If they'd written "Barclaybikes" on the side instead of just "Barclays"
I think it would have caught on.


I heard some people calling them Barclays bikes - they would have done
well to actually call it that rather than "Barclays Cycle Hire".

Initially I wasn't an enormous fan of calling them 'Boris bikes', but I
was stuffed if I was going to name check Barclays, certainly at the time
the sponsorship was announced.