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irwell
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| Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 10:54 pm
Post subject: Tooting. |
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Harvey Van Sickle
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| Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 11:06 pm
Post subject: Re: Tooting. |
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On 02 Nov 2005, irwell wrote
Greater London; south of Wandsworth.
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Stewart Gordon
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Mike Lyle
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| Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 11:33 pm
Post subject: Re: Tooting. |
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irwell wrote:
I don't know. When you find out, please tell me. So good are the road
signs in London that I found myself there a few weeks ago, and had to
guess my way out.
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the Omrud
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| Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 12:00 am
Post subject: Re: Tooting. |
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irwell <hook@yahoo.com> spake thusly:
A couple of miles from Tooting Bec.
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Weatherlawyer
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| Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 12:06 am
Post subject: Re: Tooting. |
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Harvey Van Sickle wrote:
| Quote: | On 02 Nov 2005, irwell wrote
Where is Tooting?
Greater London; south of Wandsworth.
What are wands worth? |
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Adrian Bailey
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Philip Eden
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| Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 2:21 am
Post subject: Re: Tooting. |
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"Weatherlawyer" <Weatherlawyer@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Harvey Van Sickle wrote:
On 02 Nov 2005, irwell wrote
Where is Tooting?
Greater London; south of Wandsworth.
What are wands worth?
Much Marcle |
Where is the marcle legal tender?
pe |
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Skitt
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| Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 2:45 am
Post subject: Re: Tooting. |
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the Omrud wrote:
| Quote: | irwell spake thusly:
Where is Tooting?
A couple of miles from Tooting Bec.
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You're darn tooting!
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Skitt (in Hayward, California)
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irwell
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| Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 4:10 am
Post subject: Re: Tooting. |
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On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 16:13:11 +0000, Stewart Gordon
<smjg_1998@yahoo.com> wrote:
The London Tooting is well known, the one on Mars is fairly
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batdorf
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| Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 5:24 am
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"Weatherlawyer" <Weatherlawyer@hotmail.com> escribió en el mensaje
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| Quote: | What are wands worth?
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The Anneka Rice'll depend on how much Angus Deaton's goin' on when the
jellied eel's Manned...
HumphreyB |
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Tony Cooper
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| Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 5:42 am
Post subject: Re: Tooting. |
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On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 17:00:17 GMT, the Omrud <usenet.omrud@gmail.com>
wrote:
| Quote: | irwell <hook@yahoo.com> spake thusly:
Where is Tooting?
A couple of miles from Tooting Bec.
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Some time ago, my son dated an English girl who worked here for a time
as a nanny. When she went back to England, my son went over to see
her. She lived in XXXX Tooting. The XXXX was Upper or Lower or East
or something. Not just Tooting.
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Mike Lyle
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| Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 5:55 am
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Philip Eden wrote:
| Quote: | "Weatherlawyer" <Weatherlawyer@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Harvey Van Sickle wrote:
On 02 Nov 2005, irwell wrote
Where is Tooting?
Greater London; south of Wandsworth.
What are wands worth?
Much Marcle
Where is the marcle legal tender?
Little hadham, but they've gone over to the Somerset mark. A |
traditionalist local tells me it herts.
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the Omrud
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| Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 6:03 am
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Tony Cooper <tony_cooper213@earthlink.net> spake thusly:
| Quote: | On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 17:00:17 GMT, the Omrud <usenet.omrud@gmail.com
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irwell <hook@yahoo.com> spake thusly:
Where is Tooting?
A couple of miles from Tooting Bec.
Some time ago, my son dated an English girl who worked here for a time
as a nanny. When she went back to England, my son went over to see
her. She lived in XXXX Tooting. The XXXX was Upper or Lower or East
or something. Not just Tooting.
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I can't find any XXXX Tooting, but it is not unknown for Londoners to
change the name of their district in conversation to refer to a more
salubrious adjoining region. So Battersea might be referred to as
"South Chelsea". East Tooting could be Streatham in disguise.
Of course, Tooting was the home of Wolfie "Citizen" Smith, of the
Tooting Popular Front. Come to think of it, I wonder if Ali G got
his idea of Staines from Citizen Smith.
And to help place Tooting, we can also mention that it's close to
Wimbledon (so Tooting could itself be described as "East Wimbledon").
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Tony Cooper
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| Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 8:09 am
Post subject: Re: Tooting. |
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On 2 Nov 2005 19:29:37 -0800, "William" <william@lowerknowle.com>
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| Quote: | Tony Cooper wrote:
A website produces:
Tooting lies south-west from Clapham, and south-east from Wandsworth :
it comprehends Upper and Lower Tooting. Upper Tooting is a hamlet of
Streatham : Lower Tooting, or Tooting Graveney, is a separate parish,
whose area is 680 acres ; the population in 1831 was 2,063. The
principal street of Upper Tooting lies along the Horsham and Worthing
road : Lower Tooting is partly on, partly to the left of the road. The
parish church of Lower Tooting has been rebuilt within the last ten
years, and is a handsome building : there is a chapel-of-ease at Upper
Tooting, or rather on Balham Hill, close to it; and there are some
dissenting places of worship. The living of Lower Tooting is a
rectory, of the clear yearly value of £374, with a glebe-house. There
are two national schools, an endowed parochial school, and an
infant-school.
But that was in 1842. I've not heard Upper or Lower Tooting in modern
usage. Tooting Graveney is still used, but more as a sub-area of
Tooting proper. I don't think you'll see it on road-signs.
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"Since 1842" is just the wink of an eye in England. Why would you
discard a perfectly good town name like Upper Tooting? Good Lord, one
can't go anywhere in England without someone saying that this rosebush
has been flowering since Henry II, and that stone fence is where
Charles II sat and shook a stone out of his boot on his return from
France.
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Tony Cooper
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