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Travel Forum / Destinations / Asia / April 2008Lonely Planet rebuts 'fake' claim
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7346101.stm snip He says that after having sex with a waitress on a table after hours, he reviewed the restaurant with the words "the table service is friendly". snip > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7346101.stm > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > he reviewed the restaurant with the words "the table service is > friendly". Sounds reasonable to me...  SignatureWilliam Black I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach Time for tea. > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7346101.stm > > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Sounds reasonable to me... If anything, it is an understatement. > In article <ftvnlj$bi...@registered.motzarella.org>, > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > If anything, it is an understatement. You don't know if the waitress was good or not, so it's hard to tell if the review was accurate. B; > > In article <ftvnlj$bi...@registered.motzarella.org>, > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > B; ..she also got a great 'tip' (according to the author)... On Apr 14, 4:01 pm, Kurt Ullman <kurtull...@yahoo.com> wrote: > In article <ftvnlj$bi...@registered.motzarella.org>, > "William Black" <william.bl...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > If anything, it is an understatement. You don't know if the waitress was good or not, so it's hard to tell if the review was accurate. ------------------------------- Good or not is irrelevant. The word used was 'friendly'... SignatureWilliam Black I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach Time for tea. "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die." From "Blade Runner" (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep) With kind regards, Henk de Jong http://www.hsdejong.nl/ Nepal and Myanmar (Burma) - Photo Galleries > "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off > the [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > From "Blade Runner" (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep) It's Bladerunner, all one word... SignatureWilliam Black I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach Time for tea. > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7346101.stm > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > snip It wasn't much of a rebuttal at that web site. I remember being in China once and the LP guide book was hopelessly out of date despite being an up-to-date edition in terms of publication date. I checked subsequent editions which had the same errors. I.e., one hotel I was looking for had not only changed names several years earlier, but even the street that it was on had changed names. Try telling a taxi driver to take you to a non-existent hotel on a non-existent street. >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7346101.stm >> [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > the street that it was on had changed names. Try telling a taxi driver to > take you to a non-existent hotel on a non-existent street. It works in India. They change the street names more often than they change their shoes but everyone usually uses the old names anyway... SignatureWilliam Black I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach Time for tea. > >http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7346101.stm > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > telling a taxi driver to take you to a non-existent hotel on a > non-existent street. A hotel with a different name on a different street? I am guessing you were looking for the wrong hotel. >>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7346101.stm >>> snip [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > A hotel with a different name on a different street? I am guessing > you were looking for the wrong hotel. Nope, it still existed, and I ended up staying there. It had reverted to its pre-Cultural Revolution name, as had the street it was located on. |
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