Wills and Kate-Canada or California?- confusing for the BBC

[vinteuil]

Manchester and Greater Manchester are two different things.

'Johnson at once felt himself rouzed; and answered, "Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea." '
Boswell: Life of Johnson

[Mr Pee]

'Johnson at once felt himself rouzed; and answered, "Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea." '
Boswell: Life of Johnson

[MrGongGong]

I've been to Basingstoke. The most important thing to know is that there are several ways of leaving. All of them work.

I've played the Anvil as well ! (in both versions !)
i seem to remember spending a week in Basingstoke with the LMP on a project years ago but its all safely erased now

[mercia]

Well, then, when I am lying awake at night, and the pale moonlight streams through the latticed casement, strange fancies crowd upon my poor mad brain, and I sometimes think that if we could hit upon some word for you to use whenever I am about to relapse—some word that teems with hidden meaning—like "Basingstoke"—it might recall me to my saner self

Ruddigore

[Dave2002]

Is Basingstoke the far South equivalent of Slough? I saw a train going there the other day, and it seemed to be full of people!

[amateur51]

There seems to be a distinct lack of quality control over all aspects of the corporation at the moment.Perhaps they're all to busy worrying about their ludicrously expensive and pointless move to Manchester.

That must be a bit like your frequent use of it's for its and the misuse of to in the above, Mr Pee

[mercia]

Slough

Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now,
There isn't grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death!

[pilamenon]

Do his friends call him "Wills", or is it just the media being over-familiar?

[Mr Pee]

That must be a bit like your frequent use of it's for its and the misuse of to in the above, Mr Pee

OK, I may be guilty of the odd grammatical error and finger slip, but at least I know the difference between Canada and California. And anyway, my errors are restricted to the erudite and sophisticated viewers of these messageboards, not the great unwashed who view the BBC.

[MrGongGong]

your errers arnt us goood as moin