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Subject: In praise of the A361 From: Skipjack K8 Date: 30 Oct 01 - 06:07 AM 184 miles of tarmac that hasn't yet been immortalised in song. Skipjack |
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Subject: RE: BS: In praise of the A361 From: Dave the Gnome Date: 30 Oct 01 - 06:47 AM Have some fu-un on the A361... I don't think anyone has done that before;-) Cheers Dave the Gnome |
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Subject: RE: BS: In praise of the A361 From: GUEST Date: 30 Oct 01 - 06:54 AM i don't quite understand the M6 doesn't have many songs about it either... |
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Subject: RE: BS: In praise of the A361 From: Linda Kelly Date: 30 Oct 01 - 07:17 AM Oh that Clive Sullivan Way Chokes my lungs all day.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: In praise of the A361 From: Skipjack K8 Date: 30 Oct 01 - 07:39 AM Sorry, dear Guest, I don't understand either, but maybe we need more road songs in Blighty. Dear old Clive, he got his own way. Skipjack |
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Subject: RE: BS: In praise of the A361 From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Date: 30 Oct 01 - 08:23 AM Hmmmm. "This is the story of the North Birmingham Relief Road, Just outside o' Birmingham there'll be a toll gate Where you'll pay two pounds fifty so the developers who are spending seventy four million pounds a mile can make 500 percent profit in fifty years..." |
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Subject: RE: BS: In praise of the A361 From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Date: 30 Oct 01 - 08:26 AM ...cut meself off in me prime! Needs a little work, no threat to Lonnie yet! RtS |
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Subject: RE: BS: In praise of the A361 From: Dave the Gnome Date: 30 Oct 01 - 11:47 AM Did you know they have named a street in Las Vegas after Frank Sinatra. I think they decided on Frank Sinatra Boulevard. Why on earth did they not just call it 'My Way'? ;-) DtG |
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Subject: RE: BS: In praise of the A361 From: Trevor Date: 30 Oct 01 - 12:12 PM "I get my kicks on the Spaghetti junction section of the M6" So it doesn't scan but you can't have it all. |
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Subject: RE: BS: In praise of the A361 From: Eric the Viking Date: 30 Oct 01 - 01:29 PM Now lads, the Hamsters (well known rock band) did the M606. Microsoft addrsss is "1 microsoft way" On the A631 A nightmare has just begun There are wagons and cars And cones for a mile And skeletons of those who've been there a while. By the road there's a sign It's a start Skip..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: In praise of the A361 From: GUEST,Ed. Date: 30 Oct 01 - 01:38 PM Billy Bragg wrote a song about the A13:
A13 Trunk Road To The Sea
If you ever have to go to Shoeburyness
If you're looking for a thrill that's new
It starts down in Wapping
If you ever have to go to Shoeburyness |
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Subject: RE: BS: In praise of the A361 From: Dave the Gnome Date: 31 Oct 01 - 11:50 AM Suck em all (sic) you brisk young drivers lend an ear to my song I'll sing you the praises Of the A361 Getting better? Nah. DtG |
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Subject: RE: BS: In praise of the A361 From: GUEST Date: 31 Oct 01 - 12:24 PM Kula Shaker did one about the 303. |
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Subject: RE: BS: In praise of the A361 From: Herga Kitty Date: 31 Oct 01 - 06:47 PM The North Devon Link is a wonder, I think |
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Subject: RE: BS: In praise of the A361 From: Skipjack K8 Date: 01 Nov 01 - 06:36 AM Not when the polis hide on the tops of the hills, Kit! I done bin booked in about every county now. I've managed to clip me own wings, though, as I blew up the engine on Alfa recently. I did a whole 10,000 miles without oil (company car, no oil required) and burnt up the engine. Got a previously enjoyed recon one swung in, and got the jallopy back this Monday. Already put 730 miles on the new engine, but at running in speed! Skipjack |
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Subject: RE: BS: In praise of the A361 From: Noreen Date: 01 Nov 01 - 08:56 AM Running in speed for an Alfa engine is less than 100mph then, Skippy? :0) Poor you... Mind you, I picked up my *new* (previously enjoyed) car last Thursday and it had 450 miles more on the clock by Sunday- drove coast to coast Formby-Whitby and back home. Think it'll be ok- but it's not my poor written-off White Rover (*sniff*). (singing: Noreen |
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Subject: RE: BS: In praise of the A361 From: Trevor Date: 01 Nov 01 - 12:10 PM Do you know, nobody's ever written a song about the 'Birmingham middle ring road,that bit by the mosque, you know near the Halfords island' either. |
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Subject: RE: BS: In praise of the A361 From: Armen Tanzerian Date: 01 Nov 01 - 12:54 PM Ah, the A361. Best damn plane ever built. |
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Subject: RE: BS: In praise of the A361 From: pattyClink Date: 01 Nov 01 - 03:37 PM Dave, you gnome, I am still laughing. Thanks for the chuckle, I needed it! |
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Subject: RE: BS: In praise of the A361 From: The_one_and_only_Dai Date: 02 Nov 01 - 04:48 AM I thought this thread was such a good idea for a song challenge, that I thought I'd throw this list of places the A361 passes through into the ring. So, can we have a ballad form lyric, please, with a brief couplet of praise for the vurtues and history of each? tee hee Daventry Badby Charwelton Byfield Chipping Warden Wardington Grimsbury Banbury Bloxham South Newington (Mason's Arms!) Chipping Norton Shipton under Wychwood Burford Broughton Poggs Little Faringdon Lechlade Inglesham Upper Inglesham Highworth Stratton Saint Margaret Swindon Wroughton Uffcott Winterbourne Monkton Avebury Beckhampton Bishops Cannings Devizes Semington Trowbridge Southwick Beckington Frome Nunney Doulting Shepton Mallet Cannard's Grave Pilton West Pennard Glastonbury Ashcott Greinton Greylake Othery Athelney West Lyng Monkton Heathfield Taunton (brief pause for M5) Sampford Peverell Tiverton Ash Mill Bish Mill Yarnacott Swimbridge Newland Barnstaple Heanton Punchardon Braunton Knowle Mullacott Cross Ilfracombe |
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Subject: RE: BS: In praise of the A361 From: The_one_and_only_Dai Date: 02 Nov 01 - 04:50 AM That went well, didn't it? Pardon me. Daventry Badby Charwelton Byfield Chipping Warden Wardington Grimsbury Banbury Bloxham South Newington (Mason's Arms!) Chipping Norton Shipton under Wychwood Burford Broughton Poggs Little Faringdon Lechlade Inglesham Upper Inglesham Highworth Stratton Saint Margaret Swindon Wroughton Uffcott Winterbourne Monkton Avebury Beckhampton Bishops Cannings Devizes Semington Trowbridge Southwick Beckington Frome Nunney Doulting Shepton Mallet Cannard's Grave Pilton West Pennard Glastonbury Ashcott Greinton Greylake Othery Athelney West Lyng Monkton Heathfield Taunton (brief pause for M5) Sampford Peverell Tiverton Ash Mill Bish Mill Yarnacott Swimbridge Newland Barnstaple Heanton Punchardon Braunton Knowle Mullacott Cross Ilfracombe phew! |
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Subject: RE: BS: In praise of the A361 From: Dead Horse Date: 02 Nov 01 - 05:12 AM From the Midlands to Devon, I heard them say From Devon to the Midlands is going the wrong way You're never far from a Happy Eater, That's where I get my fix. Of rubberised bacon, on route one-three-six |
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Subject: RE: BS: In praise of the A361 From: Dead Horse Date: 02 Nov 01 - 05:14 AM Above was for dyslexics wot gets lost;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: In praise of the A361 From: Noreen Date: 02 Nov 01 - 05:18 AM Dai (or anyone else), is there any truth in the information put about in the DT entry of Too Close to the Wind , that Daventry is pronounced Dane-tree ? I've never heard that anywhere else (though I've only ever driven through the place) and I've never heard it sung with that pronunciation either. Noreen |
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Subject: RE: BS: In praise of the A361 From: GUEST,Ed. Date: 02 Nov 01 - 05:35 AM Noreen, Aparently so. See this page Ed |
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Subject: RE: BS: In praise of the A361 From: GUEST,Ed. Date: 02 Nov 01 - 05:37 AM excuse my spelling *blush* |
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Subject: RE: BS: In praise of the A361 From: Noreen Date: 02 Nov 01 - 05:49 AM Well thank you, Ed, for another useful piece of knowledge to trot out when conversations flag! Noreen |
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Subject: RE: BS: In praise of the A361 From: Noreen Date: 02 Nov 01 - 05:51 AM (You are exkyoozd) |