[LMB] authors goofs that bug me
Mark A. Mandel
thnidu at yahoo.com
Sat Oct 6 20:57:15 BST 2007
Doctor Nightfall <musko_no_kaji at hotmail.com> writ:
> 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.
Michael R N Dolbear <little.egret at mrdolbear.freeserve.co.uk> answered:
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.
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It took me several readings to pick up the point of that. It really needs to be abbreviated to work:
Letsby Ave. => "let's be(h)ave"
m a m
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