spooky stuff
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realthogThe 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: 2008-08-09 12:54 am (UTC)If you'd both follow the link to the New Scientist squib, you'd find that "Evening all" was the catchphrase of the very long-running BBC police series Dixon of Dock Green.
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Date: 2008-08-09 12:55 am (UTC)As by now, K, your husband has doubtless crisply pointed out to you!