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Peaches & Cream, Morecambe & Wise, Shopping trolley & canal

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Jennifer Tracey | 15:38 UK time, Tuesday, 10 March 2009

We've had this email:

"Near Milton Keynes I met Dr Johnson and David Garrick, who were walking to London; together we admired a shopping trolley in the canal."

The ravings of a drunkard? No. It all makes perfect sense.

Shopping trolley

Andrew Denny met some men recreating the that Samuel Johnson and David Garrick undertook in 1737 (they're marking the Samuel Johnson Tercentenary).

The famed lexicographer and celebrated actor presumably didn't encounter a semi-submerged shopping trolley on their trip, nor a canal enthusiast such as . There certainly wasn't a to call if they had seen a trolley.

The 'hotline' is just a few days old. The hotline people have told iPM that the census of abandoned trolleys will take a bit longer to produce reliable picture of dumping patterns.

They also couldn't quite answer the question: why do shopping trolleys and canals go together like Dr Johnson and, er, Boswell?

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