spooky stuff
Aug. 7th, 2008 06:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The latest New Scientist "Feedback" column has the gen:
CONNOISSEURS of 1970s UK police soap operas will remember the refrain "Let's be 'avin' you" when an arrest was about to be made. Matthew Falder brings to our attention what he describes as an example not of nominative determinism, but of locational determinism - the existence of a police facility on Letsby Avenue in the Yorkshire town of Sheffield.
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Date: 2008-08-08 10:10 pm (UTC)"How about discovering that Jack Warner was the brother of Elsie and Doris Waters?"
Oh, I knew that. No problem with it.