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Thread #156785   Message #3698692
Posted By: MGM·Lion
31-Mar-15 - 12:33 PM
Thread Name: BS: Richard III
Subject: RE: BS: Richard III
'Nor do we have 'Meter Maids', that description was a figment of Macca's imagination! We have Traffic Wardens who hand out tickets, not citations, and they patrol on foot (occasionally on a bicycle).'
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Not entirely a figment, or an invention of P McCartney's own -- "Meter Maid" was an idiomatically accepted, somewhat facetious, tabloid-press-style nickname for a female traffic warden, which was Macca's reference.

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