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29 January 2007
The Oyster Scandal
Patrick Crozier
Stephen Pollard gets ripped off by Oyster. He’s not the first. Two stories on the same subject, eh? That makes a category.
Talking of rail-related smart cards. What’s with the marine wildlife connection? In London it is called Oyster. In Hong Kong it is called Octopus. And in Tokyo it’s called Suica. OK, so I don’t know what Suica means. But they promote it with a penguin.
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In Hong Kong there were initially eight different companies or agencies that used the Oyster system. Hence Octopus. Britain essentially copied the Oyster system, and choose another marine creature starting with O that was similar but not the same. I suspect Tokyo may have done the same thing, but without the letter O.
Hmm. Shellfish. Things with Tentacles. Penguins (Tekeli Li!). It’s something out of H.P.Lovecraft!
Iä! Iä! Cthulhu Fhtagn!
Just for the record, Suica is, according to wikipedia, an acronym for “Super Urban Intelligent CArd”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suica
Glad to see the blog back, I lost it when you changed addresses.
-- dml
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