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	Clapham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Clapham is a neighbourhood primarily in the London Borough of Lambeth, South London.
		Clapham dates back to Anglo-Saxon times; the name is said to derive from the Anglo-Saxon word for "Clappa's farm".
		In the twentieth century, Clapham was seen as an unremarkable suburb, often cited as representing the ordinary people: the so-called "man on the Clapham omnibus".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clapham (483 words)

	Existential criminal
		It is a curious omission: even the man on the Clapham omnibus is likely to consider anger, envy, pride or the sheer-thrill-of-it as motivation enough to commit crime.
		Both philosophies started from the same principles: that the world is not a separate physical entity to a man, rather that the man's reality ('dasein') is his interaction with the world and the creation of individual perspectives that make use of what he has found in his situation.
		Nietszche and Sartre agreed, man must create his own values and meanings, but that will be done by action rather than justified by reason; as a result, truth and morality will be determined more by personal experience and action than by an objective rationality.
	www.mdx.ac.uk /WWW/STUDY/xgoudy.htm (3323 words)

	Re: Late Follow-up
		: : : Clapham is considered, I suppose, an average suburb of London, the omnibus (bus) an unexciting mode of transport.
		: : the man on the Clapham omnibus (BrE) a phrase like _the man in the street_, which means the average ordinary English person (of either seX)....
		The choice of the bus from Clapham, an area of south-west London, has no special meaning; it is just a typical bus from a fairly ordinary place....
	www.phrases.org.uk /bulletin_board/14/messages/94.html (357 words)

	Welcome to Legal Humour
		When examined in chief by counsel for the plaintiff, the man from the Clapham Omnibus suggested that were he a soft drink manufacturer, he would have every single bottle pre-opened at the bottling plant to test for potential explosions.
		The defendant, Funcola, also subpoenaed an expert in the law of negligence, as formidable as the plaintiff's witness, namely, the ordinarily prudent man. He indicated that lengthy rides on omnibuses made him queasy and that in fact he was sometimes referred to as "the man on the street".
		His opinion was in sharp contrast with the opinion of the man from the Clapham Omnibus.
	www.legalhumour.com /casesdetail.asp?ArticleID=41 (2287 words)

	Telegraph \| News
		A number of very old passengers, each certain that he is the original man on the Clapham omnibus, burst into tears of joy, and as their sobs subsided issued identical statements as follows: "The last week has been a living hell, but I always knew that British justice would prevail.
		Clare Short (Lab, Birmingham Ladywood), who often travels in the 77A bus which runs from Clapham Junction to Aldwych, insisted that Lord Woolf's apology was meant for her, but her claim was rejected by the driver and passengers on the grounds that she is far too young and is a woman.
		The man on the Islington omnibus is a smug, self-satisfied lawyer called Charlie Falconer, whose income is astronomical by comparison with normal people's incomes, and who used occasionally to travel by bus before he was raised to the peerage by his friend Tony Blair and given the use of a Government car.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/03/09/nlords209.xml (645 words)

	Carpet Cleaning Clapham SW4
		In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, the Clapham Sect were a group of upper class evangelic Anglicans who lived around the Common.
		Natsume Soseki's lodgings in Clapham, South LondonAfter the coming of the railways, Clapham developed as a suburb for daily commuters into central London, and by 1900, it had fallen from favour with the upper classes.
		In the twentieth century, Clapham was seen as an unremarkable suburb, often cited as representing the thoughts of the ordinary people: the so-called "man on the Clapham omnibus".
	www.anyclean.co.uk /carpet-cleaning-clapham-sw4.html (725 words)

	Man/woman on the Clapham omnibus (orig. posted May 2002)
		In Reply to: Re: the man (woman) on the Clapham omnibus posted by masakim on May 30, 2002
		: : Clapham is considered, I suppose, an average suburb of London, the omnibus (bus) an unexciting mode of transport.
		: the man on the Clapham omnibus (BrE) a phrase like _the man in the street_, which means the average ordinary English person (of either seX)....
	www.phrases.org.uk /bulletin_board/14/messages/58.html (260 words)

	Clapham Omnibus
		One of Canada's foremost national pretensions is that while we lack military heft and hard power, we are nonetheless regarded by other nations as central player in the world of peacekeeping.
		President Bobby Birgeneau, the superstar expat the school wooed, with much fanfare, from MIT a couple of years back recently accepted the top job at Berkely.
		Also over at the ol' U, Toronto Life Magazine (For those of you stateside, think New York Magazine, but written by the staff of one of those free magazines you get on airlines.)did an interesting, if a little fawning, Profile of Roger Martin, the Dean of U of T's Business School.
	claphamomnibus.blogspot.com (1159 words)

	Philosophy Now
		Tell the average person – perhaps the proverbial man on the Clapham omnibus – that according to Plato, that bus is not real, is merely an appearance or an imitation or an intangible reality, the form or idea of a bus, the bus which “God made”.
		She: “Shouldn’t you use both hands?” He: “I would like to but the old bus won’t drive itself.” – this makes the general point that much of our language is ambiguous because we cannot and need not spell out every detail, which has provided the basis of philosophic debates.
		If you call a stupid man an ass, you do not mean that he can be hired out for children to ride him on the sands.
	www.philosophynow.org /archive/articles/25rickman.htm (1535 words)

	lecture10
		He is judged by the behaviour of the 'man on the Clapham Omnibus'.
		A man was admitted to hospital complaining of vomiting.
		In fact the man was suffering from arsenic poisoning and died a few hours later.
	homepages.unl.ac.uk /~bamfordj/Lectur10.htm (1225 words)

	t the end of July the House of Bishops issued a pastoral statement on Civil Partnerships
		It was a response to a duplicitous piece of government legislation which claimed not to be gay marriage, even though that is exactly what the man on the Clapham omnibus would easily recognize it to be.
		Archbishop Peter Akinola, on the other hand, spoke for the man on the Clapham omnibus when he responded to the House of Bishops statement thus: ‘The language of the Civil Partnerships Act makes it plain that what is being proposed is same-sex marriage in everything but name.
		Marriage, defined as a faithful, committed, permanent and legally sanctioned relationship between a man and a woman, is central to the stability and health of human society.
	trushare.com /0124SEP05/SE05MEAN7.htm (1624 words)

	The Manxman
		I was born in the Isle of Man, my children were born in the Isle of Man and my wife was born in the Isle of Man, which is not part of the UK.
		She told me that the cafcass man told her that she could not decide where she lived until she was 10 or 11 or even 12 and her teacher told her that 8 was old enough.
		Their mother is being so selfish living in the Isle of Man; she is depriving the children of their right to see their father on a reasonable basis, daily or every other day.
	members.aol.com /sadmanx3/Oct27.htm (1736 words)

	Anthony Babington: Disabled British Judge, Historian & Campaigner, 1920 - 2004
		One of the more remarkable disabled British men of his century, he embodied the heroic and the ordinary, the convivial and the lonely, the participant in powerful insider groups and the neighbour of the proverbial Man on the Clapham Omnibus.
		As an old man, he recalled adjusting easily to frugality and liking most of the boys at the ordinary school he now attended.
		Perhaps some also perceived, as Babington did later, that he was too straight a man to perfect the art of arguing convincingly for cases he did not really believe in.
	www.disabilityworld.org /04-05_04/news/babington.shtml (1301 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Cosmopolitan city with rule of silence
		In 1903, Lord Justice Bowen referred to "the man on the Clapham omnibus".
		Yesterday, there was one ripple of anxiety when, just short of Vauxhall and the MI6 building, a heavily bearded man wearing a white robe and sandals climbed to the top deck and sat muttering quietly to himself as he read what I assume was the Koran.
		The heads were turning to the young man in a suit sitting next to our bearded fellow-traveller.
	news.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=762582005 (615 words)

	Society \| Fair's fair as Londoners assess impact
		The man on the Clapham Omnibus - the G1 actually, which wriggles through Clapham on its way from Battersea to Streatham, south London - put down his book and said firmly: "I tend to have rather strong views about politicians in general."
		At the end of a long sticky afternoon on London buses, soliciting views on London's first elected mayor, this was akin to the angels and seraphim bursting into heavenly chorus.
		But when in Clapham Edward Brumhill laid down his copy of Making It Happen, John Harvey-Jones's can-do business manifesto, it was to give Mr Livingstone his fullest attention.
	society.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4466637-103685,00.html (385 words)

	Guardian \| Note to Gordon: get it in writing
		And if you take the historical view that the Man on the Clapham Omnibus - superseded sometime in the 1980s by the Person in the Clapham Video Shop - is the chap to ask, the answer ought to be crystal-clear.
		The man on the famous bus appreciated Churchill's war efforts, but wanted a contrast to the economic and social policies of the 1930s.
		Alas, although the economic record of the 1964-1970 period looks better in retrospect, it did not feel too good at the time, and economic competence, or the supposed lack of it, did for Wilson in 1970, although the opinion polls and bookmakers had predicted otherwise.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5172661-103390,00.html (1130 words)

	Web-head with butt?
		"The man on the Clapham Omnibus" is a legal concept.
		The phrase is said to have been coined by Sir Charles Bowen QC in 1903.
		omnibus would think.' Clapham at the turn of the 20th century was a
	www.vocaboly.com /forums/post-905.html (1737 words)

	JAM:CFreud,PJones,PMerton,ASmith
		And the subject is the man on the Clapham Omnibus!
		PJ: Well it means the man in the street, and it was invented in the latter part of the last century.
		And he lives in Clapham, which at that time was not at all a smart area to reside.
	deanbedford.tripod.com /jam119.html (3927 words)

	The Hindu : Law and laughter
		When the bus fares were raised the man could not afford to travel by omnibus and so, says Levin, ``I have not for many years heard him cited as an example of all that is sensible, reasonable and widely believed!'' Lawyers have enough to laugh at the disappearance of the omnibus traveller.
		The fiction of the man on the Clapham Omnibus, a judicial concoction, has vanished.
		In the old maxim manners maketh man? (See Charles v The Great Western Railway) there is no doubt that by ``man'' is meant gentleman, and that manners is contrasted with wealth or station.
	www.hindu.com /2001/02/06/stories/1306017b.htm (1344 words)

	ZA@PLAY - BOOKS 11/08/98 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Second, there is the good man in Africa, one of the first Kennedy Peace Corps volunteers, teaching English to Ugandan army officers and doing his bit for the natives (“I had everything I wanted: unlimited and guiltless sex.
		Third, there is the man on the Clapham omnibus, banging out novels and travel books and reviews and essays from a house in south London, hungover from bad wine at literary parties, helping to support a wife and two young sons.
		The man is fiction but the mask is real.” Elsewhere he has been more candid: “I’ve written two books which are purportedly autobiographical.
	www.chico.mweb.co.za /mg/books/9808/980811-theroux.html (1407 words)

	Health Library.com -- Reading Room -- The Law of Medical Negligence
		In England that was changed in Gold versus Essex County Council wherein a little girl was awarded damages for radiation burns on her face for the negligent administration, by the radiologist of the hospital, X-ray therapy for warts on the face.
		This was followed by Cassidy versus Ministry of Health where a man was awarded damages for negligent treatment by the hospital staff for two stiff fingers (In this case the man came out of the hospital with four stiff fingers).
		The reasoning given by the court was that the hospital was liable since they employed the staff, had chosen them for the task of treatment and had in their hands the ultimate sanction-the power of dismissal.
	www.healthlibrary.com /reading/law/part2.html (11648 words)

	EHJ Archive - August 2000
		It is hoped here to demonstrate that not only is such a strategy unnecessary, but also that the arguments on which it would need to be based cannot be sustained using the available evidence.
		The UK response to noise is based on "statutory nuisance"; noise materially affecting the use and enjoyment of property, loosely described as affecting the average man on the Clapham omnibus.
		Unfortunately the "average man" does not exist and neither does the concept of annoyance.
	www.ehj-online.com /archive/2000/august/august03.html (2097 words)

	What Comes To Pass: Celebrity Politics
		I don’t care what the hell she or any other 2-bit musician, pop star or rap artist thinks about politics, any more than I care about what the average man on the street has to say.
		So why the hell does the man on the Clapham Omnibus get ignored consistently whilst celebrities, who very often have no sense of current affairs, have their every utterance published?
		You’re reading this blog because you choose to take interest in what some 20 year old law student has to say about the world and it is humbling to have so many people visit each day.
	www.whatcomestopass.com /archives/000533.html (326 words)

	IT-Director.com: Increasing transparency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Press releases are supposed to be nice, simple introductions into whatever a company is doing next, that the man on the Clapham Omnibus can read and understand.
		Imagine my perplexity therefore, when Computer Associates issued a press release on the 4th February entitled CA announces CleverPath "Information in Action", which I totally failed to understand.
		CA has a good story to tell here: it's a shame that it was ruined by its press release.
	www.it-director.com /article_pf.php?articleid=3556 (581 words)

	Standards and Sources.
		Another example of that type of standard is the duty of care which a reasonable man owes: This `reasonable man' is not only reasonable but also prudent, fair, careful, meticulous, and weighs alternatives sensibly before acting.
		The main difference between principles and standards according to this view is that principles rest in themselves and do not name specific yardsticks of conduct, while standards describe a yardstick that has to be filled out by judicial discretion with in vivo acquired views concerning values, duties, and care considerations.
		As opposed to the closed, static unchangeable principle - or indeed the legal rule - the standard proves to be a flexible, `open' instrument for the concretization of legal norms for application in individual cases.
	www.ejil.org /journal/Vol2/No2/art3-02.html (3986 words)

	Daily Blah
		So I came braced for the same sadness this time around, and have been pleasantly suprised to find the era of pale American imitation seems to have bottomed out -- and that where the transatlantic culture is making inroads, it is doing so selectively and heartily.
		This week Rich and I visited Bodean's BBQ in Clapham Common -- yes, Clapham, South London central, home of the man on the Clapham Omnibus (the British equivalent of "will it play in Peoria?" is "what does the man on the Clapham Omnibus think?").
		We went warily, expecting a pale imitation of the kind of 1950's diner that never existed in the 1950's.
	www.dailyblah.com /2006/03/americanization-of-clapham.html (679 words)

	WWW Discussion Board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		He has now relocated to Canada where the Governemnt are offering NIL incoe taz for a oe year term if the person concerned is offering investment.
		Meanwhile the man on the Clapham Omnibus is paying 40% tax.
		The reference to the man on the Clapham omnibus was a newspaper editor's reference to the ordinary person.
	www.ukpol.co.uk /messages/messages/8/1980.html (1686 words)

	Tuppenceworth.ie blog » What would the reasonable man on the Clapham Omnibus say?
		Tuppenceworth.ie blog » What would the reasonable man on the Clapham Omnibus say?
		What would the reasonable man on the Clapham Omnibus say?
		Synopsis: National & International coverage of a school bus tragedy in Navan in which 5 school-children lost their lives and many more were seriously injured.
	www.tuppenceworth.ie /blog/index.php/2005/06/08/what-would-the-reasonable-man-on-the-clapham-omnibus-say (512 words)

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