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21 Jun 09 - 04:09 AM (#2661331) Subject: The Bakelite Brummie - Big Al Whittle From: Rasener Hot off the press from Big Al Whittle http://www.bigalwhittle.co.uk/id42.html Made me laugh, and a brummie too. |
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21 Jun 09 - 09:09 AM (#2661403) Subject: RE: The Bakelite Brummie - Big Al Whittle From: Leadfingers Me Too Les ! And if I DID follow footall , it ould be The Blues , NOT the Villa ! |
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21 Jun 09 - 09:14 AM (#2661406) Subject: RE: The Bakelite Brummie - Big Al Whittle From: Rasener Shame on you Terry. There is only one true team in Brumegem and that's the Villa. |
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21 Jun 09 - 03:15 PM (#2661611) Subject: RE: The Bakelite Brummie - Big Al Whittle From: Rasener Spaghetti junction was built to stop anybody who wasn't a brummie getting into our city and to stop us brummies getting out. I got out by accident. |
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21 Jun 09 - 04:12 PM (#2661639) Subject: RE: The Bakelite Brummie - Big Al Whittle From: Paul Burke Remember thet Spaghetti Junction's real name is Gravely Ill. |
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21 Jun 09 - 04:18 PM (#2661644) Subject: RE: The Bakelite Brummie - Big Al Whittle From: Rasener Correct Gravelly Hill Interchange is the correct name. Its colloquial name was coined in the 1970s by a sub-editor of the Birmingham Evening Mail, Alan Eaglesfield, after he realised that an aerial picture of the complex system of intertwined loops and ramps reminded him of a plate of spaghetti. |
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21 Jun 09 - 04:27 PM (#2661653) Subject: RE: The Bakelite Brummie - Big Al Whittle From: Rasener I used to work half a mile from Spaghetti Junction (at GEC Witton) whilst it was being built. I remember the excitement as the day arrived when it was opened. I like many of my colleagues went home via Spaghetti Junction, even though it put more miles on our journey. It was quite an experience. :-) I still remember to this day, thinking "Oh shit, am I on the correct feeder lane". Of course it was too late, you just had to go where it took you. |
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21 Jun 09 - 07:35 PM (#2661772) Subject: RE: The Bakelite Brummie - Big Al Whittle From: GUEST,leeneia from the web site under discussion "My views on folkmusic have always been that you are entitled to sing whatever you like and you should as a singer assume the identity of the person making the statement - like an actor delivering a speech." I like that. (Chicago has two interchanges like that, the Spaghetti Bowl and The Can of Worms.) |
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22 Jun 09 - 11:48 AM (#2662139) Subject: RE: The Bakelite Brummie - Big Al Whittle From: Stu Gravely Hill is for the tourists; it's not until you're tooling down the Aston Expressway and feeling the wind in your hair as you cruise Smallbrook Queensway that you know you're in Brum. Incidentally, we took a trip last weekend to a small craft village near Frodsham in Cheshire to the candle shop there. The shop is owned and run by Bob Carolgees, late of the mighty Tiswas, which he appeared on with Spit the Dog. We chatted with him about the show, candles and the clubs around Solihull for a while and I bought a Spit puppet from him (I'm only 42 so am sill allowed this sort of thing). Nice to meet a Tiswas legend. Bostin : ) Up the Villa! Right up the Blues! |
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22 Jun 09 - 11:56 AM (#2662148) Subject: RE: The Bakelite Brummie - Big Al Whittle From: Rasener he he Nice one Jack :-) |