Monday 4 March 2013

Gephyrophobia

Post you bridges songs.

This is fun!

53 comments:

  1. Never mind it is re-assuring that the twin sidter to the Kingston Bridge was much tghe better for the strengthening works carried out on it:

    http://www.opacengineers.com/projects/Koror

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    1. Increasing the span by 100m may have been over-optimistic.

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    2. I worked for the designers of the Kingston Bridge. They used the latest technology - a machine the size of a large television set which worked out square roots.

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    3. The Yanks could never have landed on the moon without slide-rule precision

      Bridges? "Positively Forth Street"

      DC

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    4. Why Cantilever Alone? - George Strait

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  2. "Billy (Goat Gruff) Don't Be A Hero"

    http://gprime.net/flash.php/thebillgoatsgruff

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  3. Seven Bridges Road please Bryan.. struth all this effort for the Forth Road Bridge!

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  4. Well? Were the goalposts shifted?
    Looking at F***book they would have been struggling to get a playlist from there.

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  5. ... & so varied it merited a double helping of Tom & Jerry!

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    1. ah no'....a double whammy..that's a bridge too far...........

      cheers frae the dale

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    2. I missed it. I'll listen to the abridged version.

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  6.  
    Roses are red,

    Violets are purple,

    Sugar is sweet,

    So's maple syrple



    Roger Miller

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  7. That's all water under the bridge now as we're on to flowers.

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    1.  
      Flowers? That reminds me, must go water the plants...


















      irrigating git

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    2. Sorry I read that as irritating git ☺

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    3.  
      ??? If you've got something to say, just say it!

      Don't beat around the bush...


      >8-D

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  8. John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett - "Beware of the Flowers"

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  9. If I was still tuning in tae the show I would have suggested the Sones' "Dead Flowers" but I'm no so I'll no

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    1. If he doesn't play A Good Year For The Roses I'll eat my Bryan Burnett Official athletic support.

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  10. What's official about it?

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  11. Hope they had Norman Vaughan on!

    "They say that roses grow on you,
    They seem so nice it must be true,
    They say that roses grow on you,
    Roses grow on you".

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  12. Where's Gaie?

    I'd say it with flowers if I could but the tail of the bank is a big place.

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    1. and noo ahm no'

      zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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    2. Flowers simple is all that it'll take,
      for the soul of another to smile and wake.

      The end

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    3. Oan the flerr a bunch o' flooers wi' a ribbon 'roon it
      As Mad Mac's led tae The Secure Unit

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    4. You can diss my flowers but you'll not take my freedom.

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  13. Last night on GIO...

    No Pansies???

    DC, was that you that asked for Lily the Pink??

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    1. What's the "connection" here?

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    2. Nope, I dinnae tune in these days

      Here! Are we gonny mark the anniversary of the blog turn off? Has Paolo or Norrie got a cunning plan? It's just a couple of months away!

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    3. Wonder what repeat theme idea would be appropriate on the show that evening?

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    4. We should all send our good wishes on Facebook

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    5. Yeah, it's nice to be nice .. they're nice people really and they've got a tough shift producing such an imaginative show. We could send some flowers?

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  14. Here's an inscription for the card...

    Flowers bloom in Springtime and fade in the Fall
    But the lovely flower that is GIO never fades at all

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    1. And to extend the metaphor it could not be any truer
      That, like every other growing thing, it thrives on manure

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    2. To get our request, the f***book website,
      Then turn it back off because it's all shyte

      We could flood the show with requests to show we still exist (but say we won't be listening)

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    3. 10-10 good buddy

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    4. That'll make them sit up. Just give me a couple of weeks to open accounts for all my alternative identities.

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    5. Can't we organise a round up of former bloggers in order to maximise the number of shout on the 2nd? Norrie might be willing to help here.

      Guy's like Frank, EC, Paul, Kene, Cynthia, Harry, Roxy etc.

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    6. Are we getting the gang back together??

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