please empty your brain below

Will you be a Spod volunteer DG, your vast knowledge of the Underground system would be invaluable, or are you able to see this latest idea for what it really is?
Tee hee. More of this and you could be in line to become an LU strategy wonk DG.
Brilliant! Almost believable.
Agree with Waterhouse! Be careful, someone will steal this idea..
perhaps we should arm Spods with spades to dig out the concrete at Victora?
As the London Olympics were a great success partly due to the volunteer London Ambassadors and Gamemakers perhaps having some trained volunteers who love the tube network might be a good idea.
Just about believeable until "Semi-Professional Operating Deputies". But why not, eh?

TfL shop? Is that at the Transport Museum?
Excellent!
Straight from the newsroom at 'Newsbiscuit'. (newsbicuit.com)

It adds to my conviction that there is not one Diamond Geezer but several - surely no one person can have such a range of interests AND visit so many places AND hold down a full-time job?

Indeed, a colleague (tongue-in-cheek) thinks I'm DG - it's true that he often goes to where I've been or am planning to be, sometimes only a day or so apart.
Sounds exactly like what's already happening on the waterways.
And the libraries.
I was about to launch into a rant about the economic problems of using unpaid volunteers over paid employees, until I got to SPOD and noticed the irony flag waving madly!
I got completely overexcited by the first paragraph, then "oh...it's satire" *disappointed sigh*

I am *such* a Spod! Excellent post as always, DG :)
they know the difference between 1972 Stock and 1974 Stock

Please sir, I know the difference. 1972 tube stock exists and 1974 stock doesn't. But I bet you put that in deliberately to get a nerdy comment.

dg writes: damn, I meant 1973 stock. I guess I just failed the entrance exam.
i don't get it. what irony? are you being funny or something? the staff at the tube station where i hang out most days are glad of my help, and let me run the gateline whilst they go and make tea. Got to dash, i've lost my white socks i normally wear, and i need to find them before i head out to the trains today.
Miaow! You know fine well that plenty of us, your loyal readers, could easily qualify as SPODs. Is this revenge for the constant low-level pedantry in your comments box whenever a rail-based article appears?
Where do I sign up?!
Station Customer Assistant Bodies would be a better title and they could wear clothing bearing the initials for easy identification too.
Until relatively recently, I worked in TfL ivory towers. For most of the article, I actually thought this was genuine - until the names rang no bells. How many times have they offered you a job DG? I bet it's more than once...
However Geoff doesn't tell them the quickest way to get to their destination, he tells them how to get there via another 268 stations.
In the olden days SPOD was an acronym for the sexual problems of the disabled. I don't know the new one for it but I'm sure SPOD is now available for other use.
Kim, maybe the Station Customer Assistant Bodies could assist the Passengers Requiring Assistance To Services?
Fantastic! Easily my favourite part is "so long as we promise every Spod a free trip down Aldwych tube station once a year..."
Argh! I hadn't clocked who's blog I was reading. You had me going for a minute.

Oh, and my middle name is Gullible.
Upstairs at the tfl shop? Is that a reference to the museum proper?










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