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Granted, the text that prospective travelers have to send to shuttleboy is still far from intuitive. “For Shuttleboy SMS, text ‘SBOY A B’ to 41411, where A and B are the first 3+ letters of two stops!” directs the shuttleboy website. Such directions result in “Sboy boy qua” to get from Boylston Gate to the quad, phraseology that sounds like Avril Lavigne dreamt it up after reading Waiting for Godot...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer | Title: Say Goodbye to "Happy trails...." | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

Finally, no more need to remember the "sboy boy qua" (or what have you) sequence. Easily spoken directions are a big plus...

Author: By H. Zane B. Wruble | Title: Press "1" For Creepy Voice | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

...sboy” followed by the first three letters of their starting point and their destination. In seconds, they’ll receive a text detailing the next few shuttles they can catch. For example, a Quad resident looking to get to Mather House would message “sboy qua mat” to find out the time of the next shuttle’s arrival. David J. Malan ’99, the lecturer who currently leads Computer Science 50, originally developed Shuttleboy while an undergraduate at Harvard, decided to expand the service to text messaging...

Author: By Victoria B. Kabak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shuttle Schedules Site Upgrades with Text Messaging | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

There was Sir Cloudesley Shovel, "The Cobbler'sBoy Who Became an Admiral"; William Carey, "TheShoemaker who Translated the Bible into Bengaliand Hindostani"; Samuel Drew, "The MetaphysicalShoemaker." John Greenleaf Whittier began as ashoemaker's apprentice and honored the occupationwith his ode, "To Shoemakers," not one of his moredistinguished works. ("Ho! workers of the oldtime, styled/The Gentle Craft of Leather!/ Youngbrothers of the ancient guild,/ Stand forth oncemore together...

Author: By William H. Bachman, | Title: Fixing Shoes the Old Fashioned Way | 4/9/1992 | See Source »

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