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Researcher 185550 Posted Oct 31, 2003
Got me scratching my head on both counts 'fraid.
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Coniraya Posted Oct 31, 2003
Yes, the central reservation is the strip between two carriageways.
I did read recently were the expression 'a night on the tiles' comes from, but it has escaped. It does mean going out, getting rather merry and coming in very late.
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Researcher 185550 Posted Oct 31, 2003
The tiles perhaps being those of the dance floor.
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Coniraya Posted Oct 31, 2003
You can really bore yourself silly by selecting one of the tours or webcams on the M25:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/travel/features/m25_tours.shtml
Pity it isn't set to Don't Fear the Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult!
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Researcher 185550 Posted Oct 31, 2003
Tours of the M25!
I'm not going to stop giggling for days.
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Hypatia Posted Oct 31, 2003
Ah! A median strip. 
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Researcher 185550 Posted Oct 31, 2003
Makes sense either way.
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Hypatia Posted Oct 31, 2003
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Researcher 185550 Posted Oct 31, 2003
I'm sure that different pronunciations across the pond will make both sides smile too.
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mari-rae Posted Oct 31, 2003
It took Kes an hour and a half to travel 35 miles coming home from work yesterday. 
I don't know why they call them motorways... parkways would be closer to the fact.
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Researcher 185550 Posted Oct 31, 2003
Yeah.
It's like, there are so few carjackings in England, not because we have particularly fantastic police or good motor security, it's just that you wouldn't be able to go anywhere once you'd got the car .
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Coniraya Posted Oct 31, 2003
I love motorways, I'm even rather fond of the M25, it has lovely cambers it would make a fantastic race track! But when it gets held up or the Mexican wave effect starts you need lots of really good cds to listen to.
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Researcher 185550 Posted Oct 31, 2003
They tend to melt.
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mari-rae Posted Oct 31, 2003
I shoved a lot of sf books on tape into the car for him. 
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Researcher 185550 Posted Oct 31, 2003
I misunderstood, I thought you said "Mexican Heat Wave".
Books on tape, I've never heard one of them. I think if I get one, it'll be Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone as read by Stephen Fry. I like Stephen Fry.
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Kes Posted Oct 31, 2003
I think "night out on the tiles" is an analogy for a bachelor cat having lots of fun on the roof of a house ...
Oh, what? Have we gone past the tiles bit? Oh well, better tesselate than never ...
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Oct 31, 2003
An artist who used tesselation
Was marooned amid great desolation
With a lawyer, a thief,
And huge hunk of beef,
Which led to some strange legislation.
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Coniraya Posted Oct 31, 2003
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Researcher 185550 Posted Oct 31, 2003
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mari-rae Posted Nov 2, 2003
That's funny! Good one, Paul!!
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