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Old September 4th, 2012, 09:57 PM posted to rec.travel.europe
Jack Campin
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I just spent a week in Whitby for their folk festival. Booked a flat
from an agency we'd used before,and basically knew my way around, so
didn't have that much need for a guidebook. But anyway I brought the
1921 edition of a red cloth Ward Lock guide.

It covered pretty much everything I wanted to know. The one thing it
didn't cover was Dracula. No mention of the book, or of Bram Stoker,
at all. So if you wanted to know where the Goth connection came from
the little red book wasn't going to tell you.

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Old September 6th, 2012, 04:32 PM posted to rec.travel.europe
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On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 21:57:31 +0100, Jack Campin wrote:

I just spent a week in Whitby for their folk festival. Booked a flat
from an agency we'd used before,and basically knew my way around, so
didn't have that much need for a guidebook. But anyway I brought the
1921 edition of a red cloth Ward Lock guide.

It covered pretty much everything I wanted to know. The one thing it
didn't cover was Dracula. No mention of the book, or of Bram Stoker,
at all. So if you wanted to know where the Goth connection came from
the little red book wasn't going to tell you.


There is an annotated version of Bram Stoker's "Dracula",
probably explains it in there. I read it whilst in hospital,
one of the nurses thought it was an odd choice of a book
to read in a hospital.
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Old September 6th, 2012, 09:35 PM posted to rec.travel.europe
EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)
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Irwell wrote:

There is an annotated version of Bram Stoker's "Dracula",
probably explains it in there. I read it whilst in hospital,
one of the nurses thought it was an odd choice of a book
to read in a hospital.


Oh, I dunno .... seems totally appropriate to me! (The medical
profession being "bloodsuckers" in more ways than one, at least here in
the U.S.) (;-)
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Old September 6th, 2012, 10:20 PM posted to rec.travel.europe
Erilar
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"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:
Irwell wrote:

There is an annotated version of Bram Stoker's "Dracula",
probably explains it in there. I read it whilst in hospital,
one of the nurses thought it was an odd choice of a book
to read in a hospital.


Oh, I dunno .... seems totally appropriate to me! (The medical
profession being "bloodsuckers" in more ways than one, at least here in the U.S.) (;-)



When I have to go to the clinic for a blood test, I have been known to say
I was visiting the vampires 8-)

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Old September 7th, 2012, 09:52 PM posted to rec.travel.europe
JohnT[_8_]
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"Erilar" wrote in message
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"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:
Irwell wrote:

There is an annotated version of Bram Stoker's "Dracula",
probably explains it in there. I read it whilst in hospital,
one of the nurses thought it was an odd choice of a book
to read in a hospital.


Oh, I dunno .... seems totally appropriate to me! (The medical
profession being "bloodsuckers" in more ways than one, at least here in
the U.S.) (;-)



When I have to go to the clinic for a blood test, I have been known to say
I was visiting the vampires 8-)


Very droll. I tell them I have given an armful but I doubt that you know the
significance of that because you will never have heard of Tony Hancock.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blood_Donor
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Old September 8th, 2012, 09:00 PM posted to rec.travel.europe
mikeos
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On 07/09/2012 21:52, JohnT wrote:


Very droll. I tell them I have given an armful but I doubt that you know
the significance of that because you will never have heard of Tony Hancock.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blood_Donor


Even better watch it here;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC1-Mrlm3TU

 




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