Paperboxes

kobe: 6th May 2005 - 19:12 GMT

for a phone-cam, those colors are tops. look at that red and green. im starting to fancy these little phone-posts of ubiquitous stuff. they are always really interesting and on point.....

elaine: 6th May 2005 - 19:21 GMT

ro - bots... i see robots. i am seeing robots a lot, doctor...

Jamie: 9th May 2005 - 11:22 GMT

This weekend in PE1:

JamJar: 13th May 2005 - 10:06 GMT

PE1 sounds like a british postcodenerd reference, Peterborough. Are postcodes more intelligable than all these international zip codes, their structure seems a bit more human readable to me.

elaine: 13th May 2005 - 10:56 GMT

i think peter is making a joke, no? we have had a flurry of communication on this very subject recently on these very pages, from the history of the post code, chislehurst caves etc to what does ZIP stand for...

elaine: 13th May 2005 - 11:43 GMT

note to peter: another thing you could consider collecting... cockney rhyming slang, alive and well BTW. as well as being a useful recepticle for jam, nails and goldfish, the jamjar is so much and accepted word for car that i even knew this website and did not have to google it

www.jamjar.com/default.aspx?bhcp=1

Peter: 13th May 2005 - 13:27 GMT

from: ask.yahoo.com/ask/20010309.html

"...The ZIP in ZIP code is actually an acronym for "Zoning Improvement Plan..."

also: yay cockney rhyming slang!

Jamie: 13th May 2005 - 14:11 GMT

Wow Zoning Improvement Plan is cockney rhyming slang for Tin Can. Freaky!

elaine: 13th May 2005 - 14:43 GMT

i like modern made up ones, like someone started 'lilian gish' for pish, and pish is scottish and not london, so that's really mongrelly, and ones with a bit of history like the full monty which never rhymed but is to do with the demob suit you got from (montagu) burton's after WW2, and is now american for naked, since the film of that name

Peter: 13th May 2005 - 16:06 GMT

here, "full monty" was only used around the time of that show/film... but you hear it now and then, similar in meaning to "the whole kit n' caboodle" or the "whole hog".

elaine: 13th May 2005 - 16:36 GMT

yeah, that is what it really means, and it is about getting your suit, presumably including a waistcoat, at a time of rationing - still a bit disappointing it turns out and not as handsome as uniform