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Posted by Max Roberts on Tue Jan 23 06:17:08 2007 http://www.dfes.gov.uk/londonchallenge/pdfs/LondonChallengeTubemap.pdfSuitably toe curling concept. They want to watch these silly name station maps, or they will end up debasing the currency (even more). Are the schools actually near the correct station names. Haberdashers' Aske's was definitely not at Whitechapel when I was there, or have they moved it since I last looked. And why do some of the stations have person-names? Janet Street Porter???? I guess that the schools not listed have nothing to celebrate about! |
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Posted by Max Roberts on Tue Jan 23 06:19:53 2007, in response to Very silly Underground map, posted by Max Roberts on Tue Jan 23 06:17:08 2007. Sorry, quick correction, Why is Haberdashers' Aske's at Shadwell? |
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Posted by David of Broadway on Tue Jan 23 06:24:59 2007, in response to Very silly Underground map, posted by Max Roberts on Tue Jan 23 06:17:08 2007. I don't know if Yesodey Hatorah School for Girls is actually near Euston Square, but it seems like an odd location for a Jewish school. |
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Posted by Max Roberts on Tue Jan 23 06:32:49 2007, in response to Re: Very silly Underground map, posted by David of Broadway on Tue Jan 23 06:24:59 2007. Some of the locations are correct, some are wrong, which to an obsessive like me smacks of incompetence. Either get them all right, or none of them right. There must be more shcools in London than Underground stations. |
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Posted by Rail Blue on Tue Jan 23 06:44:10 2007, in response to Re: Very silly Underground map, posted by Max Roberts on Tue Jan 23 06:19:53 2007. Why is Haberdashers' Aske's at Shadwell?Well, at least, with it being Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College, they're on the right line... |
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Posted by JohnL on Tue Jan 23 06:44:25 2007, in response to Very silly Underground map, posted by Max Roberts on Tue Jan 23 06:17:08 2007. I think it’s good: if the government can parody the Tube map, so can anyone else. They have legitimized an art form.Though I agree with you and DoB about the competence of this parody. |
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Posted by Rail Blue on Tue Jan 23 06:46:17 2007, in response to Very silly Underground map, posted by Max Roberts on Tue Jan 23 06:17:08 2007. Oh, and I somehow don't think the locals would appreciate the relocation of Battersea Tech to Covent Garden... |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Tue Jan 23 07:40:33 2007, in response to Very silly Underground map, posted by Max Roberts on Tue Jan 23 06:17:08 2007. linked |
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Posted by soton si on Tue Jan 23 07:43:19 2007, in response to Very silly Underground map, posted by Max Roberts on Tue Jan 23 06:17:08 2007. Seven King's High School at Chancery Lane?My old neck of the woods, in the nether reaches of the met line at very odd. Leanne Melbourne, Sejal Batavia - who are they (they definitely aren't schools)? and Park High School (instead of Chalfont & Latimer) - I have no idea where that is, and that was my closest tube station when I came to choose schools! Unless they merged Chesham Park School and Chesham High School, which of course, are much nearer Chesham tube (Chesham High is the grammar school, Chesham Park is the secondary modern or whatever they are called - no one uses a special name for them). I love the way that neither of the two Challoner's schools (Grammar schools, one for boys, just up the road from Amersham station and one for girls, about 5-6 minutes walk from Chalfont station) aren't on there - it's probably because they can't be seen to have schools that select on ability, could they (they do however seem to have schools that sound as if they select on wealth, which is much less socialist, but which Labour have never tried to abolish) |
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Posted by Max Roberts on Tue Jan 23 07:48:48 2007, in response to Very silly Underground map, posted by Max Roberts on Tue Jan 23 06:17:08 2007. Here is a bit more, thanks to Mecca Ibrahim for emailing me this (my editorial comment added):"Transport for London (TfL) has produced a special map, based on the tube map .TfL has replaced the stations with some of the capital's successful schools, inspirational teachers, excellent GCSE students and successful Londoners who went to state schools, including Rio Ferdinand, Sir Michael Caine, Emma Thompson and Mayor of London Ken Livingstone [WHAT A ****ING EGO THAT MAN HAS!!!]. Andrew Adonis, Minister for London Schools, unveiled the map at a celebratory event on 11 January attended by some of the students and teachers featured on it." Maybe this sort of thing can be parodied (and put an end to once and for all) by putting criminals on the map near their home stations. Cray Twins, Jack the Ripper, Denis Nielsen, Jonathan Aitken, Dame Shirly Porter, Ted Knight, endless fun for everyone seeing just how much low life London has been responsible for over the years. |
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Posted by JohnL on Tue Jan 23 08:11:40 2007, in response to Re: Very silly Underground map, posted by Max Roberts on Tue Jan 23 07:48:48 2007. …Mayor of London Ken Livingstone [WHAT A ****ING EGO THAT MAN HAS!!!].And this is news? It was huge back in the day when he ran the GLC, and it has only increased since. Maybe this sort of thing can be parodied (and put an end to once and for all) by putting criminals on the map near their home stations. Not enough space around Westminster… |
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Posted by Rail Blue on Tue Jan 23 08:19:45 2007, in response to Re: Very silly Underground map, posted by soton si on Tue Jan 23 07:43:19 2007. My old neck of the woods, in the nether reaches of the met line at very odd. Leanne Melbourne, Sejal Batavia - who are they (they definitely aren't schools)?Gox knows... all I know is that Sejal Batavia is a hapax. Oh, and I believe Southwark station won some ghastly televised "talent" contest, and Highgate station had something to do with cartography. And I wonder why Vauxhall's been renamed after a North Vietnamese general (I suppose it's no worse than the Newt's dallyings with the FARC). Is there some theme to these names that I'm missing? Maybe Eastcote station is a clue - it's eponym is some Kosavar kid who won an award for creative writing. and Park High School (instead of Chalfont & Latimer) - I have no idea where that is, and that was my closest tube station when I came to choose schools! Unless they merged Chesham Park School and Chesham High School, which of course, are much nearer Chesham tube (Chesham High is the grammar school, Chesham Park is the secondary modern or whatever they are called - no one uses a special name for them). Apparently, there's a Park High School in Stanmore. I love the way that neither of the two Challoner's schools (Grammar schools, one for boys, just up the road from Amersham station and one for girls, about 5-6 minutes walk from Chalfont station) aren't on there - it's probably because they can't be seen to have schools that select on ability, could they I reckon it's part that and part their being outside Tooting Bec station's province. (they do however seem to have schools that sound as if they select on wealth, which is much less socialist, but which Labour have never tried to abolish) You're right, but if Labour had the sense to become that intellectually honest, we'd miss the fun of seeing them squirm on Newsnight every time one of their kids hits the age of 11. |
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Posted by Rail Blue on Tue Jan 23 10:26:40 2007, in response to Re: Very silly Underground map, posted by Max Roberts on Tue Jan 23 07:48:48 2007. Transport for London (TfL) has produced a special map, based on the tube map .Is that "special" as in "special school"? Andrew Adonis, Minister for London Schools, unveiled the map at a celebratory event on 11 January attended by some of the students and teachers featured on it. Lord Adonis, however, was ineligible to appear on the map. He was educated at Kingham Hill School (IND, SEL, mixed) and Keble College, Oxford. I suppose we can commend the London Borough of Camden's Social Services Department for making such an enlightened decision for young Andy, and only wonder if his government would allow them to repeat this act of social responsibility. Maybe this sort of thing can be parodied (and put an end to once and for all) by putting criminals on the map near their home stations. Cray Twins, Jack the Ripper, Denis Nielsen, Jonathan Aitken, Dame Shirly Porter, Ted Knight, endless fun for everyone seeing just how much low life London has been responsible for over the years. Quite a fun idea... here are 28 stations: Bank BCCI Bethnal Green Kray Twins Camden Town Anthony Hardy Canary Wharf Paul Reichman Earl's Court Colin Ireland Edgware Road (Bakerloo Line) John Lloyd Edgware Road (sub-surface lines) George Smith Fulham Broadway Michael Lupo Hammersmith (District & Piccadilly Lines) Jack the Stripper Hammersmith (Hammersmith & City Line) Jack the Stripper Heron Quays Robert Maxwell Highgate Dennis Nilsen Hyde Park Corner Dame Shirley Porter Kennington Thomas Cream Knightsbridge Mohamed Fayed Ladbroke Grove John Christie Lambeth North Ted Knight Limehouse Gregor MacGregor London Bridge Ken Livingstone Neasden Graham Young Sloane Square Abu Nidal South Kensington John Haigh Stepney Green George Chapman Stockwell Kenneth Erskine Tottenham Court Road Robert Mawdsley Wapping Rupert Murdoch Westminster Jonathan Aitken Whitechapel Jack the Ripper Any ideas for the other 280 or so? |
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Posted by Max Roberts on Tue Jan 23 11:08:48 2007, in response to Re: Very silly Underground map, posted by Rail Blue on Tue Jan 23 10:26:40 2007. Looking good so far, its a shame that I throw away old copies of Private Eye. Other names we might look out for:Businesses, if they had a London office Enron UK DeLorian Motors Football clubs: any dodgy deals, bungs, bribes? Any organisation involved with tobacco or junk food Any organisation involved in arms dealing Turkish embassy: Victoria/Hyde Park corner Plenty of possible politicians Jeffrey Archer Anyone currently being investigated for cash for peerage Profumo Historical figures Was Crippen from London? Ronnie Biggs and friends should be trackable. Charles Tyson Yerkes had some dubious background So did the London & Globe, origonal sponsors of the Bakerloo Line And other sleazy people: Lindi St Clair David Sullivan, the porn merchant And terrorist attacks and incidents IRA: Hyde Park or Regents Park, 1982, Bishopsgate, 1993, etc. And sometimes the police are under fire. For example, Stephen Lawrence visited Lewisham in the day he was murdered. If you believe in conspiracies then you could put "Metropolitan Police" there, or maybe they should go to New Cross because of the "New Cross fire". On the other hand, this doesn't justify the brutal murder of PC Blakelock in Tottenham, but again we don't even have a definite suspect. Can't accuse the police of being biased in their cluelessness. Suburbs are harder. The Chalfont Strangler has been pretty quiet lately. |
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Posted by Rail Blue on Tue Jan 23 12:17:33 2007, in response to Re: Very silly Underground map, posted by Max Roberts on Tue Jan 23 11:08:48 2007. Businesses, if they had a London officeThe difficulty there is that it would result in a lot of dodgy names for about half a dozen stations. Plenty of possible politicians Again, concentrated. Was Crippen from London? He was American, but he lived about halfway between Kentish Town and Caledonian Road stations (and died, like many criminals, about halfway between Caledonian Road and Caledonian Road & Barnsbury stations). Ronnie Biggs and friends should be trackable. That should sort out most of the East End. Charles Tyson Yerkes had some dubious background I'd suggest Aldwych as the standing memorial to Yerkesian stupidity, but some prat closed it. Perhaps Yerkes should have Southgate, which was deprived of Underground service for 30 years because of his blocking the Morgan Tubes. Suburbs are harder. The Chalfont Strangler has been pretty quiet lately. There's always Durgesh Mehta, the Chalfont Carousel Fraudster. |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Tue Jan 23 13:50:33 2007, in response to Very silly Underground map, posted by Max Roberts on Tue Jan 23 06:17:08 2007. Graham Chapman needs to put a stop to that right now.:) |
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Posted by Max Roberts on Wed Jan 24 05:52:51 2007, in response to Re: Very silly Underground map, posted by Rail Blue on Tue Jan 23 12:17:33 2007. Of course, if we widen the scope to charlatains and general shafting of Londoners, we could make this one work.Watford - Nick Leeson Oakwood - Tesco Mill Hill East - Abandonment of Northern Line extensions Morden - Northern Line Sutton extension Stratford - Olympic Games North Greenwich - obvious Park Royal - Withdrawal of Routemaster buses And don't forget that MPs live somewhere, and represent somewhere Angel - Tony Blair Finchley Central - Margaret Thatcher Woodford or Walthamstow - Norman Tebbit |
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Posted by Alargule on Wed Jan 24 06:40:48 2007, in response to Very silly Underground map, posted by Max Roberts on Tue Jan 23 06:17:08 2007. http://www.dfes.gov.uk/londonchallenge/pdfs/LondonChallengeTubemap.pdf |
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Posted by Rail Blue on Wed Jan 24 07:16:51 2007, in response to Re: Very silly Underground map, posted by Alargule on Wed Jan 24 06:40:48 2007. REPOST |
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Posted by Max Roberts on Tue Mar 27 11:18:39 2007, in response to Very silly Underground map, posted by Max Roberts on Tue Jan 23 06:17:08 2007. Too recent! |
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Posted by Max Roberts on Tue Mar 27 11:29:35 2007, in response to Re: Very silly Underground map, posted by Max Roberts on Tue Mar 27 11:18:39 2007. Sorry, wrong thread. |
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Posted by Rail Blue on Tue Mar 27 14:19:41 2007, in response to Re: Very silly Underground map, posted by Max Roberts on Tue Mar 27 11:18:39 2007. But still very silly. |
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Posted by JohnL on Tue Mar 27 14:32:32 2007, in response to Re: Very silly Underground map, posted by Rail Blue on Tue Mar 27 14:19:41 2007. How do you think the “help” felt?“No, not that silly map thread, the other silly map thread…” |
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Posted by Rail Blue on Tue Mar 27 15:34:05 2007, in response to Re: Very silly Underground map, posted by JohnL on Tue Mar 27 14:32:32 2007. Ministry of silly maps? |
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Posted by JohnL on Tue Mar 27 15:45:29 2007, in response to Re: Very silly Underground map, posted by Rail Blue on Tue Mar 27 15:34:05 2007. Isn’t it part of the Ministry |
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