 AA typo on Cinema directions |
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 Nov 17 2009, 06:12 PM
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Nov 18 2009, 10:18 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 6,056 Joined: 14-May 09 From: Bouvetøya Member No.: 51 |
QUOTE (gel @ Nov 17 2009, 06:12 PM)  nice free publicity for the new cinema. coincidence? |
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Nov 18 2009, 10:52 AM
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QUOTE (dannyboy @ Nov 18 2009, 10:18 AM) nice free publicity for the new cinema. coincidence? No --------------------  |
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Nov 18 2009, 10:53 AM
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QUOTE (Andy @ Nov 18 2009, 10:52 AM) No You work for one of the two organisations, then? |
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Nov 18 2009, 11:04 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 318 Joined: 13-May 09 From: Newbury Member No.: 26 |
QUOTE (JeffG @ Nov 18 2009, 10:53 AM) You work for one of the two organisations, then? No. I'm just not stupid enough to believe that Vue cinemas would contact the AA and ask them to make 10 incorrect signs. Then after they've let a few more people know they have a new cinema in Newbury, pay for them to be replaced. -------------------- |
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Nov 18 2009, 11:34 AM
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I'm with you on this Andy.
Honestly, some people! I do however question Newbury Today's report that 5000 people saw films there during the opening weekend, just like I queried the attendance figures quoted on their story about this year's Michaelmas Fair. Some people I know went on Saturday evening and saw a screening of 2012. They said that about half the seats were taken. I believe the capacity of the whole cinema is 1000, so they would have needed to fill it 5 times to achieve this. Fair play to them if they did though and as ever I am willing to be corrected. |
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Nov 18 2009, 11:51 AM
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QUOTE (Bill1 @ Nov 18 2009, 11:34 AM) I'm with you on this Andy. Honestly, some people! I do however question Newbury Today's report that 5000 people saw films there during the opening weekend, just like I queried the attendance figures quoted on their story about this year's Michaelmas Fair. Some people I know went on Saturday evening and saw a screening of 2012. They said that about half the seats were taken. I believe the capacity of the whole cinema is 1000, so they would have needed to fill it 5 times to achieve this. Fair play to them if they did though and as ever I am willing to be corrected. Using 2012 as an example.....It is showing 13 over Sat/Sun. So times that by the 7 screens, would mean an average of 55 people per film to get 5000. -------------------- |
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Nov 18 2009, 12:09 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 4,138 Joined: 13-May 09 From: Newbury Member No.: 20 |
QUOTE (Andy @ Nov 18 2009, 11:51 AM) Using 2012 as an example.....It is showing 13 over Sat/Sun. So times that by the 7 screens, would mean an average of 55 people per film to get 5000. I think there was 68 start times for all films over the week end, if so, then it would average 74 people per show. Of course some will be less, many will be more. |
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Nov 18 2009, 01:07 PM
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QUOTE (gel @ Nov 17 2009, 06:12 PM) What a larf! What a non-story!(and you've spelted luagh rongly....  ) |
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Nov 18 2009, 03:00 PM
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QUOTE (Andy @ Nov 18 2009, 11:04 AM) No. I'm just not stupid enough to believe that Vue cinemas would contact the AA and ask them to make 10 incorrect signs. Then after they've let a few more people know they have a new cinema in Newbury, pay for them to be replaced. Sorry, I misunderstood your 'No'. I thought you meant it was not a coincidence, and therefore deliberate. What were you saying no to? 
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Nov 18 2009, 03:08 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 4,138 Joined: 13-May 09 From: Newbury Member No.: 20 |
QUOTE (JeffG @ Nov 18 2009, 03:00 PM) Sorry, I misunderstood your 'No'. I thought you meant it was not a coincidence, and therefore deliberate. You're being quite pedantic with semantics , aren't you? I think it is quite obvious what the 'no' means. 
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Nov 18 2009, 03:32 PM
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Sorry, I didn't think I was being pedantic or even literal. If someone ask a question "Is it a coincidence?" and someone says "No", then what am I supposed to infer? If it was obvious to you that something else was meant, then it wasn't to me.
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Nov 18 2009, 04:43 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 318 Joined: 13-May 09 From: Newbury Member No.: 26 |
QUOTE (JeffG @ Nov 18 2009, 03:00 PM) Sorry, I misunderstood your 'No'. I thought you meant it was not a coincidence, and therefore deliberate. What were you saying no to? The "Coincidence" with as a question after "nice free publicity for the new cinema" inferred to me that the mis-spelled signage was done deliberately to specifically advertise the cinema, which I believe it wasn't. -------------------- |
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Nov 18 2009, 07:24 PM
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OK - I suppose words can mean anything
I think Humpty Dumpty had it about right:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/23101.html |
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Nov 18 2009, 07:41 PM
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QUOTE (JeffG @ Nov 18 2009, 07:24 PM) OK - I suppose words can mean anything I think Humpty Dumpty had it about right:http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/23101.html I'm not sure that Multipex means anything at all. Perhaps we can think of a meaning. I'll make a start............ "Multipex" :- noun "A half empty cinema that is launched in a hail of publicity but soon becomes a white elephant" |
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Nov 18 2009, 08:30 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 318 Joined: 13-May 09 From: Newbury Member No.: 26 |
Multipex = A well frequented gymnasium
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Nov 18 2009, 09:15 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 554 Joined: 27-June 09 From: Newbury Member No.: 164 |
Multipex -
A particularly well developed body builder . ( or maybe cinema builder ?) 
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Nov 19 2009, 01:18 AM
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Multipex: Being attacked by a flock of angry sparrows
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Nov 19 2009, 11:47 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 6,056 Joined: 14-May 09 From: Bouvetøya Member No.: 51 |
QUOTE (Andy @ Nov 18 2009, 11:04 AM) No. I'm just not stupid enough to believe that Vue cinemas would contact the AA and ask them to make 10 incorrect signs. Then after they've let a few more people know they have a new cinema in Newbury, pay for them to be replaced. How much so you think a full page 'story' on the local BBC website would have cost? http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/News/Article...articleID=11630 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/berkshire/8364764.stm http://www.newburysound.co.uk/cinema-signs...aced-i-3600.php Any publicity is good publicity. We are even bothering to waste time discussing it on here. How many people saw the signs, mentioned it & inadvertently got a conversation about the new cinema going? The best advertising is the advertising you don't realise is advertising. Like announcing you are going to stop making Salad Cream. |
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Nov 19 2009, 01:06 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 318 Joined: 13-May 09 From: Newbury Member No.: 26 |
QUOTE (dannyboy @ Nov 19 2009, 11:47 AM) How much so you think a full page 'story' on the local BBC website would have cost? Nothing, it's free!!! Plus it had already been announced on the BBC... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/berkshire/8359684.stm[ But if you still want to believe that the AA agreed to tarnish it's image to give The Vue cinema some extra local advertising, then obviously your quite welcome to that opinion, but I personally feel your ever so slighty off your rocker. 
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