atw: Re: Jargon Alert

Oh, when did you make the Town Hall to Liverpool trip?
I can give yo a life time of school travel anecdotes.

Like I left home a snob and arrived at school a Westie.

Red rattlers forever... And apple cores out the door at Summer Hill
overpass.

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* =C0 20080417-1713_Thu, Peter Martin (peterm_5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) =
=E9crivit:

> at a given station?   God knows how hard it is for =
non-English-speaking=3D
>  tourists to make out some of the live announcements as it is, but=20
> even I=3D

The title of my (yet to be published) book of experiences on the Sydney
suburban railways is "Stinking Dusty Claws". Back in the days when the =
most
recent of new Australian railway employees were charged with the
responsibility of making the announcements, I could never understand =
this
message, which was passed just before the train left the station. A bit
later, I heard "Stanley Docks Clocks", then "Stankle Docks Locks", and
thought it was a form of advertising.

Finally, the penny dropped: "Stand clear, doors closing"
spoken in a variety of accents, over a faulty PA system, by someone who =
was
sick and tired of making the announcement hundreds of times per day.

 There was always something to amuse during the Town Hall to Liverpool =
trip.

Reg
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