What was this women saying to me?

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This morning as I waited for the C2 on Regent Street a woman approached me and asked if the C2 went to 'Icelick'. She spelled it 'Islick'. I've been wondering where the hell she was trying to get to, can anyone work this out? Was it a joke? She asked the bus driver too, then got off the bus when he couldn't work it out either.

― alix (alix), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

Chiswick?

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

Maybe. Poor her, if that's the case. The C2 goes to Parliament Hill, which is definitely not Chiswick.

― alix (alix), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

Islington?

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

Islip

― My Son Calls Another Man Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

That would be pretty weird seeing as that's where I'm from. It was my first thought. Maybe she meant Ruislip.

― alix (alix), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

that's what i thought of as well, diddy isthmus

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps I should have said 'Get the Victoria line from Oxford Circus to Victoria, cross the road, get on the vastly overpriced Oxford Tube, alight at Gloucester Green in Oxford, walk down George Street to Hythe Bridge Street to the station, get on a train going to Bicester, but watch out, the last on departs at 6.53 and there's no service on Sundays.

― alix (alix), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

And said it as fast as possible.
With a mouth full of crackers.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

my friend always tells the story of an american asking for a ticket to "ten enn ayy" when he meant "IONA". he won't stop.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

She had a perturbingly spherical head. Very curved forehead.

― alix (alix), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't she merely uttering a spoonerism for CHIKLIS?

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

Iceland? But there's no Iceland in central London, I don't think.

Icerink!! The icerink near Marble Arch!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

There's an icerink?!

― alix (alix), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

Well, I'm pretty sure there was a few months ago.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

"vastly overpriced Oxford Tube"

Oddly, Stagecoach has discontinued the Megabus buses from Oxford to London, but are still running the service - on the Tube buses. So you can now get from Oxford to London from as little as one pound...and then get shocked by the fact that a return ticket from Bicester to Oxford is five.

(get me out of here! somewhere where I can walk to civilisation would be nice...)

― carson dial (carson dial), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

Oh, it closed on the 16th January.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

Last time I went to Oxford I missed the megabus and had to get the ox tube. On the way back i was in time for the megabus and was surprised to find that physically there is no megabus and I was meant to get on the Oxford tube bus and use my megabus booking on it. I felt quite smug that everyone else had paid a tenner whilst I'd only paid £1.

― alix (alix), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

Yeh but why'd you want to go to Bicester anyway?

― alix (alix), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

She had a perturbingly spherical head. Very curved forehead.

Then its easy. She was an ice-cream scoop. She was asking the way to her tub.

I'm surprised you even needed to ask.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

She was probably a spy.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

Hot damn, Hobart, I think you're right! You've cracked it again!

I have to go home now. I'll see if she's still on Regent Street. Probably got her head stuck into some mint choc chip as we speak.

― alix (alix), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

Yeh but why'd you want to go to Bicester anyway?

To go gliding

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

Back in my Cambridge days, students who got exasperated by trying to explain to foreign tourists that the university was all around them, so we couldn't answer their "Which way is the university?" question just got in the habit of saying "Down there, turn left, second on your right" to all such enquiries. You could have tried that. This wouldn't have been terribly convincing if she meant Ruislip, I admit.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

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