SHARK ATAK! Not in Mayfair! No, really!

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Upon reading the London biography last night I WAS AMAZED and FULL OF GLEE when I found that you could find SHARKS in Whitechapel and Wooly MAMMOFFS round Kings X! Ace! I now want to start a FORRAGING exploration team.

What else do you know about London/city of your own personal choice? Are there MASTADONS in Queens? Can you find crocodiles in Brussels? You can in Islington! What fun facts do you know? Are they URBAN MYTHS or do they exist? What about LOCAL GHOSTS? WHAT ABOUT LOCAL GHOSTS OF SHARKS???

I wish Walking With Beasts was set in BriXton!

― Sarah, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This may sound like a dumb question but how old are the things that one finds in American cities? Do the finds tend to dry up around LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRARIE era?

― Sarah, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I just want to know wierd stuff about cities, can we include ODD CITY dialect? For example my favourite is currently "you're aaahving a TURKISH"!

― Sarah, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

is that Turkish Bath = Laugh? see also you're 'avin a STEFFI (graf) and also 'avin a GIRAFFE! which beast leads us nicely into...

... oh well i bought London for RickyT for his burfday and he has not read it yet. i may have to swipe it from him, but then i have swiped The Isles and not gotten v. far. i just got bored with the Romans! Sarah i do think we should all go the Natural History Museum, beasts a plenty there and now it is Free hurrah!

― katie, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

also i do remember that once Prof. Dadie Rylands donated his First Folio edition of Shakespeare to our College. this book is from about 1604 or summat. we had a kind of handing-over ceremony thing and one of the students was an American - he said "that book's older than my entire country!" i kind of take the age of London for granted i think. i love seeing those blue plaques informing me that this is where Newgate once stood and this is where Blake lived, etc! it makes me smile.

― katie, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

London actually built as new town in 1962. Blue plaques placed there by God to test our faith.

― N., Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

London history is cool. Apparently, we have all those pesky gaps between train and platform at Bank because the train has to go around the Bank of England's underground gold vaults. Ooh!

― Will, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Will, the gold has since been removed! One of my chums used to work for the Bank of England and he was telling me all about it, they moved it in the end cos all the bullion was about 6 feet away from the passengers on one of the platforms!

― chris, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh no! I wonder if that chisel shop takes refunds? ;-)

― Will, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well there's a very nice shark sticking out of the roof of the home of noted Oxford personality Bill Heine.

― Headington Pothole Complainant, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

do you see that going on the Oxford TUbe bus (WHY they call it a tube is beyond me it is clearly a BUS)? i thought i saw it once but then thought that my eyes must have been making it up!

― katie, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, you can indeed see it on the Oxford Tube. Me likee.

London: The Biography is excellent, Tom got it for me for my birthday and whilst I had not previously been much of a fan of Peter Ackroyd's stuff it is a well researched and very accessible tome. That said, I suggest you don't try to necessarily read it as a narrative, rather dip into and grab the chapters which interest you first. I found I covered the whole book better when I started to do that - and I keep going back to it. (Esp Underground rivers & stuff).

― Pete, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought this thread was going to be about SHAKATAK.

― Edna Welthorpe, Mrs, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Happily, the book just came off reserve yesterday and I've checked it out to read. Looks quite fun!

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

SHAQ ATTACK!

― ethan, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I prefer the SHAQ DIESEL.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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