We need a new Public Information Film. Complete with voiceover and cut-price graphics.
I suggest David Hansen plays the Railway Station sneak cyclist, complete with dodgy fake 'tache, flat cap and large, beige overcoat. The camera pans in to discover him loitering with intent (*) on a railway platform. The overcoat cunningly conceals..... a folded Brompton BICYCLE waiting to besmirch the legs of young secretaries innocently travelling to work with its filthy chain oil.
We need a new Public Information Film. Complete with voiceover and cut-price graphics.
I suggest David Hansen plays the Railway Station sneak cyclist, complete with dodgy fake 'tache, flat cap and large, beige overcoat. The camera pans in to discover him loitering with intent (*) on a railway platform. The overcoat cunningly conceals..... a folded Brompton BICYCLE waiting to besmirch the legs of young secretaries innocently travelling to work with its filthy chain oil.
Further auditions to take place on uk.rec.cycling
(*) Loitering with intent to board a train.
I could make it. I just picked up two awards for my "films" :
We need a new Public Information Film. Complete with voiceover and cut-price graphics.
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I suggest David Hansen plays the Railway Station sneak cyclist, complete with dodgy fake 'tache, flat cap and large, beige overcoat. The camera pans in to discover him loitering with intent (*) on a railway platform. The overcoat cunningly conceals..... a folded Brompton BICYCLE waiting to besmirch the legs of young secretaries innocently travelling to work with its filthy chain oil.
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Further auditiont to take place on uk.rec.cycling
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(*) Loitering with intent to board a train.
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Point of information: The chain of a folded BROMPTON is enclosed by the cycle frame and can't easily besmirch anything.
Col. Walter Wallcarpeting OBE, MAD & Bar Barking Essex
Tony has landed a role. He plays a Concerned Member of the Public, always on the Watchful Lookout for the fifth column Cyclist. He is ready to make a Citizens Arrest at any moment. Watchfulness is his word as he boards the Barking train
In article <[email hidden]>, Helen Deborah Vecht <[email hidden]> writes
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Point of information: The chain of a folded BROMPTON is enclosed by the cycle frame and can't easily besmirch anything.
However, it is easy for people to trip over or bang their knees against a folded Brompton, and not just on trains. A waiter in Patisserie Valerie on the King's Road walked into mine as I waited at the ice cream counter, and I think he would have hit me if he hadn't been in so much pain. I mumbled my apologies, grabbed my cone and left hurriedly. -- congokid Eating out in London? Read my tips... http://congokid.com
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In article <[email hidden]>, Helen Deborah Vecht <[email hidden]> writes
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Point of information: The chain of a folded BROMPTON is enclosed by the cycle frame and can't easily besmirch anything.
However, it is easy for people to trip over or bang their knees against a folded Brompton, and not just on trains. A waiter in Patisserie Valerie on the King's Road walked into mine as I waited at the ice cream counter, and I think he would have hit me if he hadn't been in so much pain. I mumbled my apologies, grabbed my cone and left hurriedly.
What if it had been a shopping bag with a few dozen eggs in it?
In article <[email hidden]>, Helen Deborah Vecht <[email hidden]> writes
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Point of information: The chain of a folded BROMPTON is enclosed by the cycle frame and can't easily besmirch anything.
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However, it is easy for people to trip over or bang their knees against a folded Brompton, and not just on trains. A waiter in Patisserie Valerie on the King's Road walked into mine as I waited at the ice cream counter, and I think he would have hit me if he hadn't been in so much pain. I mumbled my apologies, grabbed my cone and left hurriedly.
I didn't say a folded BROMPTON were not a heavy awkward lump, cos it are one of they.
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:26:37 +0000 someone who may be John Hearns <[email hidden]> wrote this:-
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I suggest David Hansen plays the Railway Station sneak cyclist, complete with dodgy fake 'tache, flat cap and large, beige overcoat.
I do have a deerstalker hat, if that is of any use.
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The camera pans in to discover him loitering with intent (*) on a railway platform. The overcoat cunningly conceals..... a folded Brompton BICYCLE waiting to besmirch the legs of young secretaries innocently travelling to work with its filthy chain oil.
How do you know that young secretaries don't like rubbing their legs over the softness of the bike:-)
In article <[email hidden]>, Helen Deborah Vecht <[email hidden]> writes
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I didn't say a folded BROMPTON were not a heavy awkward lump, cos it are one of they.
And mine is beyond my abilities right now as on Saturday I somehow strained a ligament (picking up a cup of coffee) in the same shoulder I hit during my collision with a sign post two weeks ago.
I've been in agony and almost immobile since, though this morning A&E prescribed some heavy duty pain killers and anti-inflammatories, which seem to be providing some relief.
At least I wasn't quite as bad as the patient in the cubicle next to me, who came in suffering back pain. I overhead the doctor ask him to first remove his shirt, which he did after some painful sounding movements. Then she asked him to remove his shoes and trousers. The shoes eventually came off after a struggle, but from what I heard, apparently the patient wasn't wearing underpants. -- congokid Eating out in London? Read my tips... http://congokid.com
