A notice on the train station barrier saying "ALL TICKETS TO BE SHEWN" - spelt that way.
And 'Ladies only' compartments on the train.

My funny foreign name is derived from my great-great-great-great-grandfather, who crossed from France to England some time around 1780. And mixed in along the way is a bit of Irish, Jewish, and who knows what else. In other words, I see myself as typically British - i. e. a mongrel.

So reminiscent of Hitler, who was obsessed with glitzy architecture.

I've heard an equivalent version that circulates among medical people: Physicians know everything and do nothing; surgeons know nothing and do everything; psychiatrists know nothing and do nothing; pathologists know everything and do everything, but it's too late because the patient's dead.

And I realised, looking at that private citizen's tweets, that doesn't have even the most elementary understanding of what a constitution is or how it is supposed to work.

Going back further...
*Ted Ray
*Vic Oliver
*Judith Chalmers
*Tony Hancock
*Jack Warner
*Elsie & Doris Waters (sisters of the above)
*Tony Hart
...could go on...
*Gerald Harper (as Adam Adamant)
*Terence Longdon (as Garry Halliday)
*and Terence Alexander (as Bill, his sidekick)

A character in Downton Abbey, set c. 1920, saying that he was "on a steep learning curve".

Yes, you should join. What better way of showing that they are not a serious party?

Fair enough. In fact I like the idea that Blue sky should now rename itself as Twitter, since the name is now unclaimed.

What's the Blue sky equivalent of tweeps? Bleeps?

Makes me think of satnav. Many of those who've never been without it can't find their way easily. If the satellites get knocked out in some conflict they'd be lost - literally.

Puts me in mind of Lady Ann Grimston (d. 1711), who supposedly did not believe in life after death, and declared that if she was wrong a tree would grow up through her grave. Which several duly did. See pic of grave in Tewin churchyard, Herts. Old railings are embedded in tree. Believe if you wish!