Looks like someone's just spun a regular tube map through 180 degrees, and renamed all the stations roughly relative to where they'd now be if the rotation was centred on the midpoint of the Thames.
So, for instance; Elephant & Castle becomes Victoria, Brixton becomes Oxford Circus and Balham becomes Angel; and conversely, Victoria becomes Lambeth North, Oxford Circus becomes Walworth and Angel becomes Streatham.
What makes it particularly well done is the addition of extra stations with appropriate names for what would be their surrounds, even between 'real' tube stations - such as Buckingham Palace between Green Park and Victoria, or Greenwich (Observatory) just south of Greenwich - mirroring Kensington (Olympia).
To be fair, though, I'd be suspicious of anyone buying 4,000 stamps with cash, flags or no flags. Bulk stamps are classic money-laundering fodder, paying in cash is doubly suspicious.
But then I spent three years at a bank, programming credit checking systems, so it was my job not only to be paranoid, but to encode paranoia into the system. A few times I got so bored I couldn't think randomly enough to chose my test data, so I picked through my friends credit histories for a laugh. That was far more... educational... than I intended so I stopped doing it pretty smartish.
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Date: 2004-09-27 08:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-27 10:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-27 08:34 am (UTC)So, for instance; Elephant & Castle becomes Victoria, Brixton becomes Oxford Circus and Balham becomes Angel; and conversely, Victoria becomes Lambeth North, Oxford Circus becomes Walworth and Angel becomes Streatham.
What makes it particularly well done is the addition of extra stations with appropriate names for what would be their surrounds, even between 'real' tube stations - such as Buckingham Palace between Green Park and Victoria, or Greenwich (Observatory) just south of Greenwich - mirroring Kensington (Olympia).
but the river...
Date: 2004-09-27 08:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-27 08:49 am (UTC)But then I spent three years at a bank, programming credit checking systems, so it was my job not only to be paranoid, but to encode paranoia into the system. A few times I got so bored I couldn't think randomly enough to chose my test data, so I picked through my friends credit histories for a laugh. That was far more... educational... than I intended so I stopped doing it pretty smartish.
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Date: 2004-09-27 10:33 am (UTC)also, south of the river is teh smelly. No like it there.
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Date: 2004-09-27 10:41 am (UTC)knowing i'd be living on the pink line [lee] makes me VERY horny... ;)