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[tinyjo]

It has been slightly surreal to realise listening to the news over the past couple of days that aside from the fact that it's an old ship, I know absolutely nothing about the Cutty Sark. I should really look it up on wikipedia or something. Am I remarkably ignorant or is it rather more obsure than it's headline billing?

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ETA Boy what sucky typing! Oh for a poll editor!

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[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

I know a fair bit about it from Readers' Digest articles read as a child, and I sort of assumed everybody else knew the same amount about it until a Tube Stations fancy dress party a few years ago. I chopped up a T-shirt till it was in ribbons and about half its normal length and went as Cutty Sark, thinking people would a) know it meant 'short shirt' and b) have seen the painting of the poem in which witch-girl is running along in a ripped-up shirt. Of course, no one had a clue what I'd come as.

[twic.myopenid.com (from livejournal.com)]

Maybe it was because they didn't consider the DLR part of the tube.

:)

-- tom