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Have a butchers at this…
April 18, 2013
Love these very London badges celebrating the art of Cockney Rhyming Slang. The first set pictured Rosy Lee, Ruby Murray, and Vera Lynn – mean (for us Londoners) Tea, Curry & Gin. The second set Adam & Eve, Duck & Dive, Rabbit & Pork mean believe, hide and talk. There
Marmite Maggie…
April 17, 2013
What a clever (and very British) ad for a feature on Thatcher’s life in the Guardian. (to explain to those who don’t quite get it: Marmite (a very British spread used on bread or toast) is sold with the campaign “Love it or Hate it” – as most people have
150 years of keeping London moving…
April 09, 2013
London Transport have produced some pretty cool posters to celebrate 150 years of the Tube – I think my favorite is the people on the escalator, such an everyday experience in London that you forget how many different generations and types of people have shared that ride. Happy 150 years
If the world was one city….
April 04, 2013
This has me fascinated. If you moved the world’s population (6.9 billion people) into one place and moved them to the same city, how big would that city be? It depends on density, as is shown by the six cities above. Sometimes simple graphics show so much. From Flowing Data
Right proper English…
February 11, 2013
Growing up in England these were all normal phrases that I heard every day and didn’t think much about. Now they make me smile. Thank you to Roderick Field for bringing back