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Andrew Chadwick
Guest
On 2004-06-16 11:43 +0000, Colin Blackburn wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:30:11 +0100, Robert Bruce
><[email protected]> wrote:
>> I note that the BBC is continuing its project of dumbing down to the
>> level of BSkyB by employing journalists who are unaware of this.
>
> I suspect a Cyclox press release uses the term. online BBC stories are
> little more than pasted in press releases. They have to fill the space
> somehow.
From the Cyclox press release I received, cut and pasted:
# CYCLOX (the Cycling Campaign for Oxford), OxPA (Oxford Pedestrians'
# Association) and OxFoE (Oxford Friends of the Earth) did a COMMUTER
# CHALLENGE from the Bingo Hall on the corner of Cowley and Magdalen Roads
# to Oxford railway station at 8.15 a.m. today.
Copies might be available to pedants who feel the need and ask nicely.
No, I'm not a member and had nothing to do with the challenge.
My eyebrows raise at "did a commuter challenge", but "challenged one
another and a couple of other guys to ..." sounds unwieldy.
--
Andrew Chadwick
You never hear a Cricket crowd chanting "who's the ******* in the hat?"
> On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:30:11 +0100, Robert Bruce
><[email protected]> wrote:
>> I note that the BBC is continuing its project of dumbing down to the
>> level of BSkyB by employing journalists who are unaware of this.
>
> I suspect a Cyclox press release uses the term. online BBC stories are
> little more than pasted in press releases. They have to fill the space
> somehow.
From the Cyclox press release I received, cut and pasted:
# CYCLOX (the Cycling Campaign for Oxford), OxPA (Oxford Pedestrians'
# Association) and OxFoE (Oxford Friends of the Earth) did a COMMUTER
# CHALLENGE from the Bingo Hall on the corner of Cowley and Magdalen Roads
# to Oxford railway station at 8.15 a.m. today.
Copies might be available to pedants who feel the need and ask nicely.
No, I'm not a member and had nothing to do with the challenge.
My eyebrows raise at "did a commuter challenge", but "challenged one
another and a couple of other guys to ..." sounds unwieldy.
--
Andrew Chadwick
You never hear a Cricket crowd chanting "who's the ******* in the hat?"