On Tue, 13 May 2008, MIG wrote:

On May 13, 1:42*am, Ernst S Blofeld
wrote:
MIG wrote:
I was referring to a headline which happened to be all in capitals,
not the story in the link.

Might have been handy to point that out from the outset! As it happens,
the story as available online does not capitalise overground even in the
headline so there is some hope.

If punters have to spot a capitalised or non-capitalised version of
the same word to make the distinction between totally different
railway routes, it demonstrates the silliness of the name.

Better write to FGW, then. Reading and Slough must be renamed forthwith!

tom

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When you mentioned INSERT-MIND-INPUT ... did they look at you like this?

On 13 May, 11:08, Tom Anderson wrote:
On Tue, 13 May 2008, MIG wrote:
On May 13, 1:42*am, Ernst S Blofeld
wrote:
MIG wrote:
I was referring to a headline which happened to be all in capitals,
not the story in the link.

Might have been handy to point that out from the outset! As it happens,
the story as available online does not capitalise overground even in the
headline so there is some hope.

If punters have to spot a capitalised or non-capitalised version of
the same word to make the distinction between totally different
railway routes, it demonstrates the silliness of the name.

Better write to FGW, then. Reading and Slough must be renamed forthwith!

Uh? Has someone chosen to call a new franchise Reading which is
totally separate from railway routes commonly known as reading?

"MIG" wrote in message
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On 13 May, 11:08, Tom Anderson wrote:
On Tue, 13 May 2008, MIG wrote:
On May 13, 1:42 am, Ernst S Blofeld
wrote:
MIG wrote:

Better write to FGW, then. Reading and Slough must be renamed forthwith!

Uh? Has someone chosen to call a new franchise Reading which is
totally separate from railway routes commonly known as reading?

There is the (very old) story of the foreign visitor who wanted to catch a
train from Paddington to Bristol.
He walked down the platform looking for a seat, and the sign on the coach
said 'For Reading Passengers Only'

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..
..

So he went back to the bookstall and bought a newspaper.

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Peter