[LMB] authors goofs that bug me

[Philip Johnson]

JenL wrote:
> On 10/3/07, Michael R N Dolbear <little.egret at mrdolbear.freeserve.co.uk>
> wrote:
>>
>>> There is, also, thanks to a failure of imagination by council planners,
>> a
>> lack of initiative on the part of the A-Z Maps group, and great big ones
>> on
>> the part of some wag, a Police Station in Britain that is now officially
>> No. 1, Letsby Avenue.
>>
>> That I did check and was unable to find. I thus think it is an Urban
>> Legend.
>>
>> Anyone who thinks it real, quote the postcode.
> 
> 
> http://archive.thisisworcestershire.co.uk/2000/12/27/342904.html
> No idea how accurate this link is, but it claims that there was a bid to
> name a street "near" a police station "Letsby Avenue", but that it was
> turned down.
> 
> jen

When I was a mere schoolboy (these 55 years ago) we fell of our chairs 
laughing at :-

Q: Where does the policeman live.

A: 999 Letsby Avenue

(USAians substitue 911 for 999)

Phil the Badger
-- 
Never do for yourself what you can con an expert into doing for you.	 
Naismith: "On War"