Platform 9 3/4 (11 comments)
Platform 9 3/4
Wednesday, October 07, 2009 - 01:35 AM
Sheldon reader Rudi N. sent in this great pic from King's Cross railway station. I admire that the management folks behind the station had a strong enough sense of joy to make this happen.
The luggage cart disappearing into the wall is the coup de grace.
tudza
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Re: Platform 9 3/4 (Score: 1)
posted Wednesday, October 07, 2009 - 01:59 AM (
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If we're lucky, they walled up JK in there.
iArthur
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Re: Platform 9 3/4 (Score: 1)
posted Wednesday, October 07, 2009 - 03:57 AM (
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Darn, somebody already snapped up the strip! This strip is me when I went to London this summer with a friend - the one thing I *really* wanted to see was platform 9 3/4! Because of renos it was moved to the space between platforms 10 and 11 :D
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Boom de yada, boom de yada
_JM_
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posted Wednesday, October 07, 2009 - 04:48 AM (
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And there is a statue of Paddington Bear at Paddington Station. I like that the statue is nude as would have been easy to forget he didn't have his duffel coat when he arrived there from deepest Peru.
jjules
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Re: Platform 9 3/4 (Score: 1)
posted Wednesday, October 07, 2009 - 07:18 AM (
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I love that Sheldon and Arthur are so excited that they started talking like Flaco.
(This was kind of like me the first time I went to London. I didn't care about Paddington, and it was way before J.K.Rowling, but I couldn't believe I was actually walking down Baker Street.)
stlemur
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Re: Platform 9 3/4 (Score: 1)
posted Wednesday, October 07, 2009 - 10:49 AM (
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The cart used not to be there, but people kept plowing into the wall trying to run through it and knocking themselves out.
stlemur
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posted Wednesday, October 07, 2009 - 10:50 AM (
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And also: I live in Cardiff. Everything in town is a Doctor Who or Torchwood or Sarah Jane Adventures filming location. It's mind-warping in a good way!
Ramsden
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Re: Platform 9 3/4 (Score: 1)
posted Wednesday, October 07, 2009 - 07:43 PM (
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In Response to stlemur (#49578):
I don't think that the cart is going to stop the more determined sugar-fuelled child from concussing themselves on that wall. Just an observation from having interacted with children. If anything, I think it would likely inspire them to try HARDER.
cwatkins
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Re: Platform 9 3/4 (Score: 1)
posted Thursday, October 08, 2009 - 09:22 AM (
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Awesome. I loved the rising excitement, culminating in a squee chorus, and Flaco's little arms vibrating madly. :)
Toronto
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posted Thursday, October 08, 2009 - 08:26 PM (
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The cabbie may have "the knowledge" but I think he went around that traffic circle the wrong way. In the UK they drive on the left so would go clockwise around roundabouts.
Ramsden
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Re: Platform 9 3/4 (Score: 1)
posted Saturday, October 10, 2009 - 07:23 AM (
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In Response to Toronto (#49597):
Technically you're spot on. We are supposed to go clockwise around roundabouts. HOWEVER... taxi drivers are renowned tossers and think they own the road, and I can easily see one going whatever way they like around a roundabout. I've actually seen some who drive straight over mini roundabouts.
Re: Platform 9 3/4 (Score: 1)
posted Saturday, October 10, 2009 - 08:37 AM (
#49613)
In Response to iArthur (#49574):
Because of renos it was moved to the space between platforms 10 and 11 :D
Somehow I fail to see a problem with this.
Also: damn you for your signature!
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