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November 07, 2006
Thames Town
The Scotsman reports Chinese pirates have made off with bits of Lyme Regis as an eerie simulated England has appeared an hour outside of Shanghai. Thames Town hosts a pub, a chippie and a bronze Winston Churchill against a backdrop of newlyweds looking for a picturesque location.
Yet that copycat feeling has irked some people, not least Gail Caddy from Lyme Regis in Dorset, southwest England. She said her pub and fish-and-chip shop have been replicated in Thames Town. Her establishments, the Rock Point Inn and Cob Gate Fish Bar, have both been reproduced almost exactly, though Caddy's fish-and-chip shop is spelt "Cobb". "As you can imagine, the jokes are absolutely rife here," she told Reuters in Britain. "They are as follows: 'I have been Shanghaied' and 'My business is on the Chinese take-away menu'".
I will trade them for more Blade Runner at Dundas and Spadina.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at November 7, 2006 08:44 AM
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Copycat feelings should be reserved for Vegas, baby, where everyone acknowledges the illusion at hand.
Blade Runner trivia: What band watched the movie constantly while recording their second album?
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at November 7, 2006 08:52 AM
Hmm... I'm stumped. Unless it's Duran Duran.
Posted by: Ghost of a flea at November 7, 2006 10:30 AM
No way. It was Garbage.
Posted by: agent bedhead at November 7, 2006 05:19 PM