A strange but logical phenomenon?

peter crabtree

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My current avatar is a picture taken by a fellow angler on the towpath of the GUC about 20 years ago. I think I was landing a fish at the time.



In reality the bridge and the angler next to me were actually on my right hand side.

It has baffled a few locals as to my location...

Any guesses how?
 
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In reality the bridge and the angler next to me were actually on my right hand side.

It has baffled a few locals as to my location...

Any guesses how?

They still look like they're on your right, did you mean left? :confused:

In which case the image has been flipped...

 

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Left?Right?
It's an easy mistake.
You don't half look like Nigel Farage in that photo :)
 

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A bit of trickery eh? - So you had similar bridges and identical twins either side of you.....
 

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Looks more like Steve Ringer to me, but defo Farage, bet the beer is on his bait table.
 

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My current avatar is a picture taken by a fellow angler on the towpath of the GUC about 20 years ago. I think I was landing a fish at the time.



In reality the bridge and the angler next to me were actually on my right hand side.

It has baffled a few locals as to my location...

Any guesses how?

With that shirt had you just come from trying out for a part in Oklahoma
 

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Maybe you could Tring someone and tell them that you are Hunton bridge, if they call you a Berko then tell them you Boxmoor than they do and theyr'e full of Bulbourne out of jealousy.

A little local canal based humour taken from 'Great Canal Puns' avaliable from all bad bookshops. :D
 

peter crabtree

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Maybe you could Tring someone and tell them that you are Hunton bridge, if they call you a Berko then tell them you Boxmoor than they do and theyr'e full of Bulbourne out of jealousy.

A little local canal based humour taken from 'Great Canal Puns' avaliable from all bad bookshops. :D

What the ****insons are you on about? Good Evans! lady capels had invited us to a cow roast washed down with some ovaltine so we Wendover armed with our rods. Let's have no moor of this....
 

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The original. A photo which I have the print of...



Then I took another photo of the printed photo and...




It's a mirror image i suppose..:confused:

I am also aware I resemble Nigel Farage. I often do a double take when I see him on telly lol....
 

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I reckon most FM' ers North of Watford Gap are scratching their heads over those references.:rolleyes:
 

peter crabtree

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What the ****insons are you on about? Good Evans! lady capels had invited us to a cow roast washed down with some ovaltine so we Wendover armed with our rods. Let's have no moor of this....

Just for you crow...

They are all pounds on the GUC.

****insons pound is in Croxley where they manufactured paper. Remember Croxley script watermarks in writing paper?
Evans pound is a canalised stretch of the river Gade in Watford.
Lady Capels is the pound to the north of Evans.
Cow roast is a pound on the Aylesbury arm near Aylesbury.
Ovaltine pound is in Kings Langley and the egg farm and Art Deco factory backs onto the canal...now trendy flats...
Wendover arm is an arm which goes to Wendover...
Moor pound is south of ****insons on Croxley moor....

Hope this helps....
 
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