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It is more that the reference is to London. There could very well be great delivery in Whoopsidoodle-on-the-Wye, but it is outside the context of the anecdote.
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You started off with "So you can get pizza delivered in London now?" in reference to me talking about pizza delivery places. So the anecdote is irrelevent (unless the passage in the book implied that you couldn't get pizza delivered anywhere in the UK, it's been a while and I can't quite remember.)
In any event, I know that Britain is a small place and full of places-not-famous-to-American-eises-and-earyes, but Liverpool is really not that obscure.
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Well, you used to live in London, didn't you? And I mean "London" in the broadest accepted sense. Middlesex, as it (formerly) were.
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The mind just naturally avoids thinking of the word "Liverpool".
It's visually unsetteling.
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quote:Originally posted by TSN: Well, you used to live in London, didn't you? And I mean "London" in the broadest accepted sense. Middlesex, as it (formerly) were.
"Were"? Are you sure?
And I haven't lived in London for 5 years. Half a decade. The time delay between here and there isn't that slow. And in any event, Liverpool is not in London or Middlesex. (Was it Jason who thought that it was right outside of London? Not that I want to mock him, because I couldn't point out 99% of US cities on a map. I'm just wondering why he thought that.)
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I'm confused. In the book the reference is, at least by my dim recollection, explicitly in regards to London, and this was the sole reason I mentioned it.
You may suggest that that makes my comment somewhat divorced from the rest of the thread, but when hasn't that been true?
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quote:All the one's like that around here are primarily indian take-aways, with pizza as an extra. And they're not very good at all.
Implication is that Liam can get pizza delivered to his house.
quote:So can you get pizza delivered in London, now? I've only got that bit in one of the Dirk Gently books to go on as proof that you can't, or couldn't, but still.
Simon is surprised that you can now get pizza delivered in London. This seems to be a direct response to the above comment, since the only other people in the thread talking about getting pizzas delivered live in the US, where Simon is well aware that pizza can be delivered.
Liam can get pizza delivered. Simon takes that to mean you can now get pizzas delivered in London. Simon is therefore assuming that Liam lives in London. Liam has not lived in London for 5 years. Simon is a very silly billy.
I don't know if you can get pizzas delivered in Wales, though.
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We've got a great carry-out place (I'm assuming the equivilant of a "take-away") just down the street from me here in Buchanan. I have to excersize enormous amounts of self control not to order pizza every night on my way home from work.
As for not being able to get pizzas delivered in certain places, there were areas of Columbus that were in the dead-zone of food delivery. If you lived on the wrong side of some random street or in the wrong neighborhood, noone would deliver to you.
And why does this thread have me wanting to add a "u" to all my wourds...?
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I'm not sure, since I can't see any words on this page that are spelt with an "ou" in English and an "o" in American. I'd focus on learning how to spell "exercise", as your way is actually making even Jason cry.
I don't think that the US equivilent of "take-away" is "carry-out". I thought it was the rather more obvious "take-out".
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I've heard both carry-out and take-out. I say carry-out. But then again, I also apparently spell abysmally. It's a place where you get the food to go rather than sit there and eat it, yes?
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