Doug
That's exactly what it is - in the UK an Identity Parade means a police
line-up.
On 14 March 2010 15:19, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dave
>
> I take your point, but you get paid? What for? It sounds more like a police
> line-up....
>
> What exactly is it?
>
> Doug
>
> On 14-Mar-10, at 3:36 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
>
> I don't know about anything else in this dispute but has anyone else here
>> ever been on an Identity Parade? I have, and they are drab, disjunctive,
>> mean-and-petty-spirited, depressing, cold, ludicrous, disquieting affairs
>> which leave an unpleasant taste in the mouth and a bad feeling on the
>> skin.
>> And you get paid in small change!!
>> I can't think of a less appropriate title for a poetry anthology, it's a
>> misfired metaphor that feels like something straight out of an advertising
>> agency's box of cheap triX.
>> (I'm over 45 and out of the anthology's age range so I have no personal
>> interest, as it were)
>>
>
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