BS: London has relocated...

Subject: BS: London has relocated...
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 03 Feb 12 - 02:31 PM

Oh dear...

CNN

Subject: RE: BS: London has relocated...
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 03 Feb 12 - 02:39 PM

I live in Norfolk, and we definitely don't want nasty old London up here thank you! I notice a 'town' called Cornwall is also marked. I remember seeing that they'd labelled South America 'South Africa'. Good grief!

Subject: RE: BS: London has relocated...
From: GUEST,999
Date: 03 Feb 12 - 02:57 PM

This is all well and good, but how will it affect traffic?

Came across a map years ago (made in a certain country in North America that ain't Canada) in which Prince Edward Island was colour-coded as being part of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton (part of Nova Scotia) was colour-coded as being PEI. I phoned them and they changed it for the following year, including an island in the Great Lakes that they put on the American side of the border. And they assured me they had no intention of taking over Canada by effecting small map changes and hoping we'd all forget.

Subject: RE: BS: London has relocated...
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 03 Feb 12 - 03:01 PM

They used to say that Americans like waging international war as it enables them to learn a bit of geography.

Subject: RE: BS: London has relocated...
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 03 Feb 12 - 03:28 PM

"Leading US news channel"?

I've never watched it.

Subject: RE: BS: London has relocated...
From: Bill D
Date: 03 Feb 12 - 03:28 PM

Just you wait, Norfolk...continental drift will get you yet! (It took Brazil away from Africa, didn't it?)

Subject: RE: BS: London has relocated...
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 03 Feb 12 - 05:15 PM

I worked in the Library & Information area of an Australian Govt. agency & once received an email from an American research organisation asking for information about - well, they said Australia, but it was really Austrian information they needed.

When I wrote back suggesting she tried the equivalent agency in Austria
I received back a friendly reply thanking me & saying to contact her if ever I needed any information from them!

Subject: RE: BS: London has relocated...
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 03 Feb 12 - 05:53 PM

I think they actually meant that Londoners have relocated to Norfolk, which is true - it's full of PR executives, film directors, actors, fashion designers etc, with holiday homes. There'll be a congestion charge in Mundesley next.

Subject: RE: BS: London has relocated...
From: Paul Burke
Date: 03 Feb 12 - 06:54 PM

Looks Ok to me, it's sarf of Watford Gap

Subject: RE: BS: London has relocated...
From: GUEST,Lizzie Cornish
Date: 03 Feb 12 - 07:08 PM

I wish I lived in Norfolk, on the Broads..heaven..

Subject: RE: BS: London has relocated...
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 03 Feb 12 - 07:30 PM

Although the blunder cited was pretty funny, it was corrected fairly quickly.

Our local "big university" made grand announcements about creation of a new department dedicated to teaching how to start a business some years back.

A TV ad published at the time ran for more than three years, before someone pointed out to them that they had spelled it

        "The School of Enterpernuership"

Nobody knows how long it might have run if someone hadn't told them.

(I mentioned it to the then-wife the first time I saw it, the first week the ad ran; but she didn't get it so I figured it wasn't worth telling them right away.)

John

Subject: RE: BS: London has relocated...
From: Don Firth
Date: 03 Feb 12 - 07:35 PM

Moving London any distance at all must have taken one helluva lorry!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: London has relocated...
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 03 Feb 12 - 10:22 PM

And it's going to add about four hours round-trip to a lot of people's daily commute.

Subject: RE: BS: London has relocated...
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 03 Feb 12 - 10:40 PM

Oops! Sorry about that mistake--and glad I didn't make it! I make enough mistakes!

Subject: RE: BS: London has relocated...
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 04 Feb 12 - 12:13 PM

Rusty, that lot wouldn't be seen dead in Mundesley, they're all in Burnham-up-Market and Castle Rising. We went to look round Holt fairly recently, and we ended up giggling, everything in the shops costs hundreds of pounds there. You MUST wear a waxed jacket at the very least to show your face in North Norfolk.

Subject: RE: BS: London has relocated...
From: Joe_F
Date: 04 Feb 12 - 09:12 PM

Bill D: Right. All you have to do is be patient. As recently as (I think it was) 14,000 years ago, there was no English Channel and the Thames flowed into the Rhine. Ireland was joined to Britain in two places, and the Irish Sea was an inland lake.

Subject: RE: BS: London has relocated...
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 05 Feb 12 - 04:27 AM

If they've moved London to Norfolk, that'll make it a lot easier for the rest of us to get to the continent.

Subject: RE: BS: London has relocated...
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 05 Feb 12 - 05:49 AM

Conversely, Dave, it'll make it so much easier for the 'continent' to get to us!

Subject: RE: BS: London has relocated...
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 05 Feb 12 - 03:29 PM

That as well, Eliza. Especially as my daughter is currently in Paris.

Subject: RE: BS: London has relocated...
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 05 Feb 12 - 05:20 PM

Yes, Dave, it would be rather good. At the moment we in Norfolk have to get ourselves down to London in order to find a plane or train abroad. (Norwich to Amsterdam by air is very expensive) I like travelling, but we are a bit far flung up here!

Subject: RE: BS: London has relocated...
From: Gurney
Date: 05 Feb 12 - 09:31 PM

Some people sited it in Ontario years ago.

I borrowed a biography of a seaman from the library. The cover linings were a world map. New Zealand wasn't on it.
Perhaps he never came here?

Subject: RE: BS: London has relocated...
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 06 Feb 12 - 01:23 PM

I've visited London, Ontario, and very lovely it was too! And the people were delightful.