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« on: September 11, 2013, 23:38:54 »

September 2012 - underpants
September 2013 - cans of baked beans

a) What am I talking about (yes, it is travel related)
b) What about September 2014
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« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2013, 09:48:44 »

Equivalent purchase for railfares

2014 Mars bar
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« Reply #2 on: September 14, 2013, 22:47:39 »

I'm going to promote this up the order - and give you a hint that September might be a unique time of year for this activity!
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« Reply #3 on: September 14, 2013, 23:20:24 »

I'm going to promote this up the order - and give you a hint that September might be a unique time of year for this activity!
Going by the hint, changing from summer to winter rail timetable? Can't see how that would fit with beans or underpants though.
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« Reply #4 on: September 14, 2013, 23:29:26 »

I'm going to promote this up the order - and give you a hint that September might be a unique time of year for this activity!
Going by the hint, changing from summer to winter rail timetable? Can't see how that would fit with beans or underpants though.
Doesn't the timetables change in December though?
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« Reply #5 on: September 14, 2013, 23:35:19 »

I'm sure I seen in the news some First Group staff were doing baked bean baths to raise money for Macmillan
Macmillan also do various underpants events to do with Prostate Cancer so I wonder if this is related
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« Reply #6 on: September 15, 2013, 11:03:36 »

I'm going to promote this up the order - and give you a hint that September might be a unique time of year for this activity!
Going by the hint, changing from summer to winter rail timetable? Can't see how that would fit with beans or underpants though.
Doesn't the timetables change in December though?
May, September and December. I think I read somewhere that the September one is more minor and normally only used to change from the summer to winter timetable, but the Fishguard trial 5 extra trains per day started at a September timetable change.
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« Reply #7 on: September 15, 2013, 15:31:39 »

What I'm looking at is purely September, but the First response is the right company, and that's as close as anyone has come. 
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« Reply #8 on: September 15, 2013, 23:55:04 »

It's not to do with the channel 5 films on FGW (First Great Western)? Although come to think of it it goes into October.
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« Reply #9 on: September 16, 2013, 07:40:42 »

... I don't think this one is going to 'go' ... it's the promotions to encourage First bus travel to and from Bath Spa university - September is the time to catch the new undergraduates at the Fresher's fare and "just having timetables and pictures of buses isn't going to attract them".   So there were First bus underpants art year, and tins of First bus baked beans this year.  Who knows - in 20 years time they may be offered to dealers on "4 rooms" like a bottle of George Best wine which was on the other night (in the background, I hasten to add, while I was working on something else!)
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