From Ladbroke Grove to Notting Hill

[venta]

Hello LJ. Are you looking for a way to waste time today?

You are?

Last night, Sally asked me whether I'd seen the Look for Longer posters on the Tube.

I had not.

Shame, she said, she couldn't solve the last few.

Eh?

Look, she said, it's online. It's a big picture[*] containing various images designed to represent Tube stations. The online version is clickable, and will tell you when you've solved them correctly.

Which explains why, at twenty to two this morning, Sally and I were sitting on the sofa with glasses of wine (and a cat, who was not helpful) shouting tube stations at each other.

You can find the puzzle here.

Warning: at least some of the ones I've found so far are a bit tenuous. I accept no responsibility. And if anyone can explain Hainault to me, that'd be lovely.

[*] Interestingly, as soon as I saw it, I said "I bet that's something to do with Virgin". It reminded me very much of a similar scene containing images representing bands which they produced a few years ago.

Comments

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's like SWYS! (After music, my biggest expense on my iPhone is on SWYS panels

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

Hm, I'm up to 51, and running out of clue!

[venta.livejournal.com]

I'm deliberately not looking at it today, as I do actually have to get work done. I was only really looking at the ones Sally hadn't got, last night!

[lnr]

I *think* it's a sounds-like hay-nought and that's supposed to be a zero in the middle of the hay bale - that was my justification anyway,

I did get them all in the end, but needed a bit of help googling to work out that the rabbit wasn't in a *warren* but there was another word for a rabbit hole which was a bit like a tube station, and it helped a lot once I was using a list of tube stations which included the DLR.

I still think the one for the nuns was a bit rubbish.

[venta.livejournal.com]

But... don't you pronounce the 'L' in Hay-nolt? I think I do (and I think Mrs Tube Announcer does too).
I did consider hay-nought but decided that was too rubbish.

I still haven't solved the nuns (at least, we hadn't last night and I've resolutely not looked again today!)

Had you already seen it, or did you solve them all that quickly? If the latter, I'm impressed!

[lnr]

I think I spent much of Friday afternoon peering at it, having seen it on twitter - and like I say I did cheat a little at the bitter end. I seem to have thrown away my piece of paper where I'd scribbled down the last 15 or so I was stuck on and gradually ticked them off. That definitely helped though.

I'm afraid I've no idea how Hainault is actually pronounced :)

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

I was once on the Central Line with a very cockney announcer who declared what sounded like, 'this train is for anal'.

[lnr]

*giggle*

Maybe it's a slurred sound-a-like for hay-on-hill then?

[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

Or 'hay-knoll' :)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Well, I suppose it's better to designate a train rather than a random approach which leaves people feeling they've either missed out or got more than they bargained for...

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

I've got 13 left to go now! I'm very annoyed with the gate on top of the building, because it isn't the obvious answer, and I can't think past the obvious answer!

[lnr]

Yes, I wanted that to be high-gate too. What is it next to?

[kauket.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I did this, spent an entire train journey to Wakefield and home again doing this. I think a couple were pretty dodgy though - the one with the mouse, I remember. By time I / we got to the end when we had about fifteen or so left, we got out the tube map and still struggled to work out some of them.

[exspelunca.livejournal.com]

If this link works, it's another bit of tube-related fun - http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/101519.html

[kauket.livejournal.com]

Nooooo I finished this last week and now I'm getting all dragged back into it watching you people playing! More of my day wasted (it wasn't going to take much to be honest).

[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

Right. I have got 63, and now I have better things to do with my life.

...also, the person who came up with the fish needs to be taken out and shot at dawn.

[sea-of-flame.livejournal.com]

We were all yelling out possible answers to this last Friday at work, but with the added fun of not actually checking any of the answers.

If the fish was anything /other/ than a Red Herring, I shall be most disappointed :)

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

Argh, I have two yet to get (the telly-stealing guy and the dead pig); this is going to keep me up all night!

[kauket.livejournal.com]

You want hints?

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

Yes please!

[kauket.livejournal.com]

Ok. Telly stealing guy - ignore the guy and look at what he's carrying and what's happened to it. It's a bit obscure as a station but it wasn't for me. The dead pig. You're almost there but think about the pig a bit more.

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

Got the telly, it's just the pig to go! I've been going through every other word for a pig I can think of (sow, hog, boar, pork), but no joy so far!

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Augh! I really am supposed to be at work.

[rapperaddict.livejournal.com]

Thank the gods I didn't look at this until today. Would have screwed up my revision royally. As it is, this was a lunchtime I'll never get back and I still haven't got that bloody fish!

[vicarage.livejournal.com]

Finally got all 75 right, can now read your comments thread!