http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=42784 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sat, 25 May 2013 23:46:00 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=42784#post-122822 Tue, 15 May 2012 19:21:49 +0000 Haywood Manley 122822@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Glad to see this made the front page - best little story on here for a while. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=42784#post-122447 Sat, 12 May 2012 07:36:52 +0000 dvo4fun 122447@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Brilliant Yikes. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=42784#post-122433 Sat, 12 May 2012 01:13:35 +0000 Yikes 122433@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>It seems that most of the time I see the "news" story here first and then look it up later! In this case I was amazed to find the black cab made it all the way to Everest base camp.</p> <p>First 7 paras are great btw and end with a nice punch line. If you want one more then here is a possibility:</p> <p>Johnno *** said all’s well that ends well: “Our colleagues were still at the pub at Covent Garden finishing their 5,000th and final round when we finally arrived – they needed a taxi home to Kensington and luckily Paul was still outside.” </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=42784#post-122428 Fri, 11 May 2012 23:45:21 +0000 dvo4fun 122428@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I hadn't read the story until the link but some genuine laughter at this end so it's a full house from me. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=42784#post-122426 Fri, 11 May 2012 23:37:56 +0000 Qoxiivi 122426@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Cheers. A nice story to work on, if only I had the time. Actually, I think you'd have made a great job of something like this Wayland. Still, I doubt that many people knew about the original story so probably best it sinks. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=42784#post-122360 Fri, 11 May 2012 11:20:44 +0000 waylandsmithy 122360@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Very nice! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=42784#post-122359 Fri, 11 May 2012 11:03:18 +0000 Haywood Manley 122359@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Spot on. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=42784#post-122357 Fri, 11 May 2012 10:36:18 +0000 Qoxiivi 122357@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Two passengers, taken on a 43,000-mile cab journey that lasted 15 months, have been confidently told the ordeal was 'the quickest way to get to Covent Garden from where you were.' by their driver, Paul Archer.</p> <p>The trek, which started when the two friends hailed the taxi in Holborn, last February, has cost the pair £258,642: 4,310,600% more than the 'about £6' they were quoted before they climbed in and the doors were locked.</p> <p>'Johno and I had just finished an offsite meeting in Chancery Lane and were supposed to be joining some colleagues in Covent Garden for a couple of drinks.' said Leigh Purnell, one of the exhausted passengers.</p> <p>'We knew it was close, but didn’t fancy walking it. Neither of us knows London that well, you see. In hindsight, that's something we probably shouldn’t have disclosed to the driver.' he added.</p> <p>'We had suspicions that something was awry about six months into the journey when our concerns about all the tuk tuks and elephants were dismissively blamed on 'them temp'ry roadworks in Russell Square'. For a while, I was actually beginning to see his point about immigration. That was until my iPhone showed we were actually in Delhi.'</p> <p>Mr Archer, however, is adamant that the route he took was the shortest one if you want to get from Holborn to Covent Garden at that time of day.</p> <p>'They was lucky I was around if you ask me. I was about to clock off as I'd just done a mammoth fare taking some tourists on a shortcut from St Paul's to Farringdon via Heathrow.'</p> <p>'I could have taken them the 'traditional route', sure... if they <em>wanted</em> catch all the traffic that feeds up from the Strand after 4:30.'</p> <p>Crap - another meeting to go into. Probably won't be able to finish this. Hey ho, am not sure the original <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-18025836">story</a> has become well known enough for it to be used anyway. </p>