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a nice article

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Post by Angel Tavington » Wed Apr 08, 2009 3:04 pm

"I love that I'm in the Harry Potter films, I've always loved kids, I was a children's entertainer and I love making kids have a good time," he said.

"If I'm round someone's house and there's a room of kids I'm invariably playing hide and seek or doing magic tricks or something but I'm so glad I don't look like Lucius Malfoy in the street."
Awww, sweet, he loves kids and seems to be so friendly with them, what a lovely guy our dear Jason is!

Thanks Kj,



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Post by Wolfie » Wed Apr 08, 2009 5:45 pm

Nice reading.
Thank you for posting.

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Post by virtu1889 » Thu Apr 09, 2009 11:10 am

'Look who it is, it's Lucius Malfoy,' and they go, 'No it's not,' so the parents ask me to do the voice and I have to say, 'I'm in Sainsburys,' or, 'I'm at the dentist'." :lol
He is just so adorably funny. Thanks KJ for the article. :hug

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Post by Helen8 » Thu Apr 09, 2009 12:58 pm

Nice article. Kim.

Um. Could the Brits on the board define for us across the pond what an Oyster card is?

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Post by Hilary the Touched » Thu Apr 09, 2009 2:23 pm

Don't need no Brits, Helen--you may have had one yourself.
It's the plastic farecard used on London's mass-transit system. You use it like a credit card, passing it in front of an electronic scanner before boarding trains or buses. When you run out of money, you add more to your Oyster account.
Not sure why it's called an Oyster . . . I thought maybe because they're originally issued in a blue plastic wallet/folder, that sort of flips open, but that's pretty feeble. I dunno!

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/oysteronline/2732.aspx

On edit: according to Wikipedia, "Oyster was conceived and subsequently promoted because of the metaphorical implications of security and value in the component meanings of the hard bivalve shell and the concealed pearl. Its associations with London through Thames estuary oyster beds and the popular idiom 'the world is your oyster' were also significant factors in its selection as was the uniqueness of the word Oyster."

Ooooookaythen.
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Post by marilaine » Thu Apr 09, 2009 2:25 pm

Awesome.....kinda like paypal? Or debit?

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Post by Helen8 » Thu Apr 09, 2009 2:30 pm

you may have had one yourself.

Last time I was there (1989), they used a thick paper ticket that went in one end of the turnstyle and flew out the other end . . . sometimes onto the floor. I'd sheepishly pick it up and put it in my pocket, hoping the germs from a million shoes, etc., wouldn't kill me.

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Post by Hilary the Touched » Thu Apr 09, 2009 2:34 pm

Weeellll . . . sort of. It has a computerized chip in it that stores information about how much money you have deposited into your travel account; when you pass it over a card reader upon either starting or stopping a trip, it automatically transfers the money for the fare out of your account.

It means that you don't have to carry cash around to pay for bus or train trips, you don't have to worry about exact change, you don't have to wait in lines, and so on. This speeds up loading and reduces the number of employees necessary for selling and collecting tickets, etc.

There's a surprisingly lengthy article (with photos!) here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyster_card
Washington, D.C., uses a very similar system now; it was introduced because they charge for parking at Metro lots, but discovered that parking attendants were skimming outrageously from the cash collected, since there was no record of the number of vehicles in lots. They fired the attendants and mandate the cards for parking.

On edit: Helen, I'm so sorry--I had you in London with us for Dumb Waiter. You were there both in spirit and my heart, so I forgot that you'd missed out on carrying an Oyster!

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Post by grannybear » Thu Apr 09, 2009 3:04 pm

In Florida we have the "Sun Pass". You attach the transponder to your car windshield and when you go thru the toll booth it reads it and takes the money from your account. No having to stop and pay at the toll booth. You just scoot right on thru.

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