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... think back to the verse
Well it's obvious, isn't it...
'short skirt' leads to Mini, a la Mary Quant and also namesake of the contemporaneous car designed by Sir Alec Issigonis, whose parentage was part Greek, part German and who as a British subject was evacuated to Malta in his early life...Malta was once governed by the Knights Templar whose symbol, the maltese cross, remains a symbol of the island. The answer to the question 'How do you make a maltese cross?' is, as every schoolchild knows, 'stamp on his foot!'...and where else would you go for stamps if not Stanley Gibbons philataleists on the Strand:... just down the road from Charing Cross rail staion. and that's you're tag right there!: the only Crossrail site under construction with a Robert Burns connection.
but I won't be tagging this because I don't actually cycle overground anymore and I can't shoe-tag because I only wear Spandels and anyway I can't get out to tag this until the end of the week because it's not my side of town, bothered?, meh! and rhowe's probably on the way there as I speak...
so yeah, thanks Oat44 for the occasional easy one because it keeps BToB rolling.
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Right then, true to the verse, I'll claim it and be thankful!
Old:
Kris Wines , York Way
New:
Clue: Short skirt
London looks so cold! But how I miss it!
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Cold compaired to here. The middle of summer really is a drag.......
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Ha, I didnt even notice.
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Wicked! Looking forward to it being up again. Used to hang out there a lot back in the day. I learnt to skid in that area. Plus races through the tunnel at 2am always fun.
Photographer friend of mine has a shot from inside just after the fire, I'll dig it out if he has it on his site.
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Well done hms, I liked your interpreatation of the 'short skirt' clue!
What linked the tags was a Robert Burns connection, being Burns day yesterday and all that. Google 'Robert Burns short skirt' and you see why I was trying to make it more cryptic ;-)The name Cutty Sark comes from one of Robert Burns' most famous poems, Tam O Shanter, a cautionary tale about a drunkenness and perving. In it, husband/drunk Tam is caught peeping at a young witch (Nannie) dancing in a skimpy underskirt (a cutty sark). She chases Tam as he rides away on his horse (Maggie) and in the pursuit she pulls off the horse's tail.
The last lines:
No, wha this tale o' truth shall read,
Ilk man and mother's son take heed;
Whene'er to drink you are inclin'd,
Or cutty-sarks run in your mind,
Think! ye may buy joys o'er dear -
Remember Tam o' Shanter's mare.Nannie, the figurehead of the ship *just *visible in the picture, is usually seen holding a horse's tail, though it's currently in storage while the restoration work continues.
http://www.robertburns.org.uk/Assets/Poems_Songs/tamoshanter.htm
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Well it's obvious, isn't it...
'short skirt' leads to Mini, a la Mary Quant and also namesake of the contemporaneous car designed by Sir Alec Issigonis, whose parentage was part Greek, part German and who as a British subject was evacuated to Malta in his early life...Malta was once governed by the Knights Templar whose symbol, the maltese cross, remains a symbol of the island. The answer to the question 'How do you make a maltese cross?' is, as every schoolchild knows, 'stamp on his foot!'...and where else would you go for stamps if not Stanley Gibbons philataleists on the Strand:... just down the road from Charing Cross rail staion. and that's you're tag right there!: the only Crossrail site under construction with a Robert Burns connection.
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Old, herring gull statue, Narrow street, Limehouse.
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New: As Ice cube might say: "Goddamn they roofless!"
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