Downtown and Midtown Re: [OT] Hotel suggestions for downtown London

Smylers Smylers at stripey.com
Fri Apr 27 12:22:38 BST 2007


Daniel Barlow writes:

> Iain Tatch wrote:
> > > [3] eg. Ongar[4], and a time machine.
> > 
> > And we all know

Actually I didn't (but Google did).

> > what the local paper there had as its headline when the council
> > reduced funding for the library.
> 
> Best I can come up with off the top of my head is
> 
>   "No longer the wonga for readers in Ongar"
> 
> but this is pre-caffeine.  Why the library specifically?

What would reduced funding lead to in a library?

(By "library" I mean it in the traditional sense, not in the modern
sense which seems to involve them leaving sponsored beer mats in pubs
advertising their DVD collections and internet access.)

Smylers


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