Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
The Banner
Just seen the banner and my opinion is that its pretty damn crap.
Why?
You still see much of the shoddy paintwork on the bridge.
The banner is all wrinkled.
The overall design is so crap.
I could go on but I'll give everyone else chance instead.
Oh well.
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Permalink Reply by Vernon on
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I prefer the regular past participle "spelled" to distinguish the wheat from the chaff. :)
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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Ruth shall we split the difference and call it a dog's lunch? A Big Dog's Lunch.
(it might be thought rude to call it a dog's mess)
Eyesore √
Insult √
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Permalink Reply by Protheroe O'Shea on
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Sorry to butt in. Surely at this time of the day a dogs brunch is more appropriate?
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Permalink Reply by Ruth on
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Where I come from there is no lunch nor brunch- it's your dinner or your tea! I am sticking with my dog's dinner of a banner...
Let's hope its days are numbered.
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Both Breakfast (181,000 hits) and Dinner (77,600) are signficantly more popular than dog's brunch (56). But the key point here is not the time of day of the eating, but rather the degree of thought, selection and preparation of the food.
In an effort to accommodate the widest range of opinion and to build a consensus, can I put forward a possible unifying slogan? A Mutt's Meal has the advantage of Humour and Alliteration.
It could have been even less of a feline feast: as well as "Building a Better Community", we could have had "My Harringay" or "Better Harringay" but then that sort of language would be infantile. Wouldn't it?
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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" Building a Better Community " recognises the efforts of Coral, Ladbrokes, Betfair, etc in engaging with the public ?
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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on
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I see their Bridging a Banner Community has already been improved upon. Someone has daubed 'FLEM FLEM FLEM' on its northern face and a single 'FLEM' over GOYKUZU on its southern side. Apart from its being an illiterate dummy's spelling of phlegm, I can't shed any further light on this upgrading. Building a Better Community through canvassing an inanimate bridge may indeed be no more than Great Expectorations, so perhaps we should maintain a phlegmatic disposition towards it all. OTOH, the hideously yellow FLEM daubing suggests the aesthetic hand of HANE in a less phlegmatic reaction to the Paul Simon presence.
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MY Haringey would use the banner fund for: "Banning a Betting Community"
"Welcome to Green Lanes Gambling Strip" might be more accurate. (NB. I do not hold the local council responsible for betting shop proliferation and clustering. That was the consequence of the Gambling Act 2005).
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I wonder what Ken thinks.
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I wonder how much it will cost the council to remove the grafitti?
Yes Alan I will ask someone at the council to find out ! :)
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Building a better community implies there was a community in the first place that needed to be bettered, rather than betted on. Better than what, exactly? Better than where or when or who? Better than Bermondsey circa 1890? or a Brazilian favella 2011?
If the banner is being graffitied, then may as well let the bridge get daubed and eventually people will tire of it and it will be worth a fortune as urban art and will be auctioned at sothebys like Banksys work and there will be no bridge to worry about. But the train might have a problem then..
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