User talk:KeepBritainTidy

Greetings!
Welcome to Wikipedia, and Merry Xmas!

It's a pleasure to see the work of someone who understands English grammar, and is prepared to exercise their abilities. Keep up the good work! (Please!!)

Regarding your username: 1) Doesn't that assume Britain is already tidy? 2) How?

Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 14:12, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

Hi Pdfpdf and cheers for the supportive comments - glad some of my small contributions to the great enterprise that is Wikipedia are being noticed/appreciated. Ah, yes, usernames, now there's a thing! I struggled and toiled mightily to create a name I thought would embody style, profound erudition, post-modern irony, sexiness etc only to have all my submissions cruelly rejected by Wikipedia with 'sorry, name already taken, please try again', or somesuch. So following some desperate mental scrambling I unearthed/alighted upon KeepBritainTidy, which was (and quite possibly still is) a prominent environmental programme here in the UK in the 1970's/80's. Perhaps I should've chosen KeepWikipediaTidy, which is more descriptive of my editorial interventionist approach as I can't bear badly written English, but I do love the Wikipedia project.

In response to your questions, well, yes the assumption is there and indeed Britain is fairly tidy.

Cheers, KeepBritainTidy (talk) 21:21, 4 January 2010 (UTC)