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Scene: In the ante-room at the Mansion House. A delegate from the North to the Transport Congress seeks information.
"How do you pronounce the name of your Lord Mayor Is it Bad-dc-Icy or Bad-ly1
The Londoner: "You pronounce it Bad-ly."
Northern Delegate: " I see. But that's paradoxical. If I pronounce it Bad-de-ley, I pronounce it badly!" Londoner: "Yes; and, moreover, if you pronounce it Badly, you don't pronounce it badly ! "
— AND ANOTHER.
Delegates to the Institute of Transport Congress were accorded free travelling facilities, during their stay, on all the tramways, underground railway, and L.G.O.C. bus systems. We produced our member's ticket to a bus conductor on the first day of the Congress, and he remarked, after looking it over and asking what it was all about:— "Well mister, I've been on this game nigh on eighteen years, and it's the first I've ever seen of this yere document." Turning the card over, we said: "Here's our M name, and, see, there is r. Blain's signature." "Mr. Blain! Ala! He's our managing director. Well, if he says it's all right, we'll let it go at that "