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"You'll never catch me, coppers!"

As somebody who "punted" while I was there one summer, all I can say is.. shut them all down. That is something I have zero desire to do again. Unless someone else punts while I sit back and chug wine.

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"You'll never catch me, coppers!"

better watch oout for the time vortex though

Its not that hard. Do like we do in New Orleans with the lame carriage rides. All of them take off in one spot, and you need a license (like a cab medallion).

Why don't they just rent out panoes?

I had no idea that aggressive touting was prevalent outside of West African taxi stands until now.

I was in Cambridge about ten years ago, and those guys who run the punting businesses? they are incessant. You walk by and a dozen of them in a row will look right at you, smile, and say only 'PUNTING?'

I said no to the first three, what makes the fourth through tenth think i'm going to say yes?

Anyone care to translate the article into english. I can usually follow along but that was one hell of a dense mass of Brit-speak.

Ha, I live in Cambridge and I have plans for a shirt that has "No I don't want to go farking punting" printed on it.

"There's little we can so about polite touting," he said.

Is this...is this the Cambridge version of "Principal caught sayof"?

"It would be an indication that the company is reputable, reasonably-priced and doesn't tell tourists a load of lies."

Practically incomprehensible.

pjc51: Russ1642: Anyone care to translate the article into english. I can usually follow along but that was one hell of a dense mass of Brit-speak.

Punts = flat bottomed boats propelled by poles, popular on the river Cam in Cambridge.

Touts = the people who hang out near the river trying to persuade tourists to rent the boats, and sometimes the services of a guide to do the punting for them.

There are lots of them and they get quite annoying as they're agressive in approaching potential customers. This is especially true in a couple of choke points in the centre of the city (Bridge Street and Silver Street) where you have no choice but to walk by half a dozen or so of them. To combat this, the local council is proposing a certification scheme for boat rental companies so they'd get more publicity in exchange for refraining from aggressive promotion of their services.

they're beyond aggressive. i had one follow me and my girlfriend a whole block cajoling us and getting in our way.

pjc51: deffuse: Ha, I live in Cambridge and I have plans for a shirt that has "No I don't want to go farking punting" printed on it.

I always found they were pretty good at identifying the locals and leaving them alone, but I hear things have stepped up a gear in the 4 years since I lived there.

During the first week of any term, there seems to be 100's of touts now. It's crazy. Combine them with all the new students who seem to have brought their parents for a look-see and town/market square/the backs is the most frustrating place to navigate.

Well done Subby!

You're obviously a fart smella...er....I mean, a smart fella...

Russ1642: Anyone care to translate the article into english. I can usually follow along but that was one hell of a dense mass of Brit-speak.

Eh wot then? You've pranged your kite right in the pranged his kite right in the how's your father. Hairy blighter, dicky-birdied, feathered back on your Sammy, took a waspy, and flipped over on your Betty Harper's and caught your can in the Bertie?

No Worries, seems the whole things a big runny-gazzo about a spot of bother the quality is having being tom and jerryed by a pack of jack-a-nape punters what is trying to get them to shell out for a bit of splash and slide down the ol' wide and brown

I wonder if there is a webcam on Cambridge's famous River Cam? A Cambridge Cam Cam?

I found one focused on the Bridge of Sighs and six other webcams aimed at five other monuments and a bird box (what kind of bird has a purple cap? It's not a cardinal. Cardinals are scarlet.).

http://www.webcampedia.com/europe/united-kingdom/england/cambridge/

There's another at the Cambridge sailing club, but the view is short of spectucular:

http://www.world-cams.be/webcam/598/cambridge-sailing-club-cam-2

The Cam Cam Cam leaves something to be desired, but the idea seems obvious to me.

Cambridge was originally Grantebridge, but the pronunciation degenerated, and then they renamed the river as well, which was formerly the Granta. If you've ever wondered why the literary magazine was called the Granta, now you know.

Maud Dib: We here in Austin, Texas have our own version of a spoonerism.

I give you the creative stylings of Alice Kennedy Spooner.


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Since overpopulation could go to germ warfare, and slight miscalculations, not 75% mortality of the human race where records were kept 1340 to 1360 but possibly maybe since no one has been Neanderthal lately, possibly next an extinct species like T. rex, a larger dinosaur, Tyrannosaurus rex.


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Holy shiznit. Talk about indecipherable trolling.