'Iconic' What does it mean? What is it being made to mean?

[MrGongGong]

If I go to the station and ask for
"A return ticket please"
and they say
"where to ?"

Surely the correct answer is "Here , of course " ?

[ahinton]

All of which rather misses the point I made.

It doesn't actually - at least not if I understood correctly your point about the term "customer" undermining the customer, service/goods provider and the quality of what is supplied, the concept of which of course I understannd fully in principle but whose application in this context doesn't stand up to scrutiny as long as one recognises that "customer" status does not and is not meant to supplant the context in which the transactions concerned take place, hence it being perfectly possible to be a customer AND a patient, passenger and the rest.

[ahinton]

I don't think I've ever done that (actually you can't with a plane ticket, can you?).

You can if you buy it in the name of the person travelling; just stop and think for a moment how many employers do this for their employees and agents do it for their clients, just as they and others do with train tickets and the rest.

[ahinton]

Please complete the phrase in 5 words. The best entry wins the prize

...(hopeful) shareholder in Britain plc.

OK, I realise that this is the only response so far, but I nevertheless look forward to an opportunity to receive said prize, provided, of course, that it's not an HMRC investigation...

[Flosshilde]

If I go to the station and ask for
"A return ticket please"
and they say
"where to ?"

Surely the correct answer is "Here , of course " ?

No - a return ticket takes you there and back, so the correct answer would be 'there'.

[Flosshilde]

It doesn't actually - at least not if I understood correctly your point about the term "customer" undermining the customer, service/goods provider and the quality of what is supplied, the concept of which of course I understannd fully in principle but whose application in this context doesn't stand up to scrutiny as long as one recognises that "customer" status does not and is not meant to supplant the context in which the transactions concerned take place, hence it being perfectly possible to be a customer AND a patient, passenger and the rest.

Goodness - almost Proustian

[teamsaint]

No - a return ticket takes you there and back, so the correct answer would be 'there'.

"here and there" would cover it, then.

[mangerton]

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If I go to the station and ask for
"A return ticket please"
and they say
"where to ?"

Surely the correct answer is "Here , of course " ?

Tommy Cooper, c 1965.

Similarly, man on the phone.... "Is that the local swimming pool?"

"Depends where you're calling from."

[mangerton]

...(hopeful) shareholder in Britain plc.

OK, I realise that this is the only response so far, but I nevertheless look forward to an opportunity to receive said prize, provided, of course, that it's not an HMRC investigation...

The men in black suits will be round at nine sharp on Monday morning!

[ahinton]

Goodness - almost Proustian

As in À la recherche du customers perdus, peut-être?...

[Serial_Apologist]

As in À la recherche du customers perdus, peut-être?...

Tickety boo...