a few questions

[flowery_twat]

1. To Londoners: Anyone got contacts in the posh foodie world? My very dear friend Diana is moving to London this summer (her partner got a lectureship at UCL) - she's a sommelier/wine buyer with many years experience in the industry in Boston and she needs a job. Any suggestions much appreciated

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[traveller]

2. I would hazard the bet that the average reader of a Certain Age would know regardless, but below a Certain Age it would depend on whether or not that reader lived in a place with the kinds of mass transit that use turnstiles. the average college undergrad? since most of them can't find their own home state on a map, I tend to doubt that they would know a turnstile if it reared up and bit them on the nose, but you have caught me on a bit of a cynical day. ;)

PS HI LINNEY ♥♥♥

[flowery_twat]

I noticed. :-)

*tickles you*

[traveller]

wot are you writing, precious, that you are worried about being misunderstood? swmbo is right, there is only one correct word for what that thing is, and I don't think you should try to rephrase it. IMHO, of course.

yaye, tickles! *rolls around*

[flowery_twat]

Experimental items. Any possibility of ambiguity/confusion is a huge problem and to be avoided. 'ticket gate' isn't a perfect synonym, but it works just perfectly with the verb 'jump', so it's a better choice. Don't worry - I'm not compromising my artistic expression - I'm trying to create 90 sentences of the form [the noun verbed the adjective noun], with a whole heap of restrictions on the grammatical properties of each element. Wheeeeee! :-)

[swmbo]

turnstile makes sense (I can't imagine what else you'd CALL it).

swmbo's moving company is always swmbo + bff and husband + random people she can recruit. So I can not help you there!

[flowery_twat]

Ok - I just needed to make sure there wasn't some other American word for it that I couldn't recall. Ta.

As for moving - I'm never, ever doing it myself ever again. Especially not in late July! Gah!

[flowery_twat]

Yeah. Your icon kind of sums it up. :-)

[writteninstars]

"Turnstile" makes sense to me and I don't even live in a city with that sort of mass transit. I'm pretty sure I knew what one was even in my youth.

Like swmbo, moving= me + Justin + my brothers and a truck. So, I am no help to you there.

Happy Wednesday to you as well! (And typing "Wednesday" just then reminded me of watching the Memphis news the other night and seeing that Coyote Ugly is opening on Beale Street today, "Wednsday", according to their sign. It's the sign of the apocalypse for more reasons than one.

[flowery_twat]

*sign* of the apocalypse indeed. *grin*

Good news on turnstile then, thanks.

[writteninstars]

Exactly. ::amuses self and twat if no one else::

[ludditerobot]

I'd say that it would make more sense to those in bigger cities, especially those with mass transit by train, but those of us in the sticks would recognize that from Money Train and the like.

[flowery_twat]

No clue what 'Money Train' is, but thanks. :-)