- RESULTS: Erland's occasional quiz: Odd one out! - 4 Updates
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 05 02:53PM -0500 Mark Brader: > > asked, say, 25 years earlier. Montmartre is a district ("faubourg", > > which originally meant a suburb) on a hill in the northern part > > of Paris... Erland Sommarskog (spelling corrected): > Obviously, if I had this posted quiz 25 years ago, I would have had to > figure out some other fake station. I wanted a name of a well-known location > in Paris. Ah, but my point is that at that time there wasn't a Montmartre station either, only Rue Montmartre, which was not even in Montmartre. > My first idea (before I had checked any map) was Tour Eiffel, > and indeed there is no station with that name, but there is > Champ de Mars Tour Eiffel, so I had to look for something else. Actually, that's an RER station, not a Metro station. But in fact I think that 25 years ago "Tour Eiffel" would have been what you wanted -- without checking, I think that back then the RER station was just named Champ-de-Mars. Or maybe it wasn't even open then. I know I once knew that the station for the tower was Bir-Hakiem (on the Metro). -- Mark Brader | "Now you have accidentally said something valuable!" Toronto | --Hercule Poirot: msb@vex.net | Paul Dehn, "Murder on the Orient Express" (1974) My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 05 02:53PM -0500 Mark Brader: > I know I once knew that the station for the tower was Bir-Hakiem Bir-Hakeim, I mean. -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "When you're up to your ass in alligators, maybe msb@vex.net | you're in the wrong swamp." -- Bill Stewart |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jul 05 10:46PM +0200 >> location in Paris. > Ah, but my point is that at that time there wasn't a Montmartre station > either, only Rue Montmartre, which was not even in Montmartre. Yeah, but obviously I would not pick a name that could cause confusion. People could think that I mean "Rue Montmartre". Or only recall the station with that name. There is fair chance, of course, that would not have noticed the name looking at the metro map, as I would not have been looking in that spot for that name. > Actually, that's an RER station, not a Metro station. And I am not that brutal. "XXXX is RER station, not a Metro station". (Although, I think that when I first thought of this question many years ago, the idea was to have all stations but one to be the terminus of some line. But then I found that they extended the lines, and not all stations I was used of to think of as the end of a line still were.) |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 05 04:03PM -0500 Mark Brader: > Ah, but my point is that at that time there wasn't a Montmartre station > either, only Rue Montmartre, which was not even in Montmartre. I was meaning to note: cf. London, where Edgware station and Edgware Rd. station are on different lines and about 8 miles apart. Or Toronto, where Royal York station is on Royal York Rd., but the Royal York Hotel is one of the landmarks adjacent to Union station, more than 6 miles away. -- Mark Brader | The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. Toronto | He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. msb@vex.net | But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are | given to administer we presently imagine we own. -- Wells |
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