On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 16:42:50 +0000 Garrett Coakley <garrett at polytechnic.co.uk> wrote: > P.S. Off to do some research, this sounds a bit like an urban legend > to me. Bingo.... god bless Snopes: http://www.snopes2.com/toxins/london.htm -- Claim: A recent study concluded the London Underground was unspeakably unsanitary. Status: False. The e-mail circulates in another form that attributes the fictional study to the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of New South Wales (which is in Australia) and citing Sydney CityRail as the subway that was the subject of the investigation. It too is a fake. [snip] -- And linked from that, is a press release from London Underground: http://www.thetube.com/content/pressreleases/0201/30.asp G. "I lurrrve urban legends" -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- WORK: http://spiked.co.uk/ PLAY: http://polytechnic.co.uk/