Comments on: The FreakyTrigger Top 25 Brands: 22: TARMAC http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/the-freaky-trigger-top-25-brands-no22-tarmac/ Lollards in the high church of low culture Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:00:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Pete Baran http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/the-freaky-trigger-top-25-brands-no22-tarmac/#comment-87612 Pete Baran Fri, 24 Nov 2006 14:31:59 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/the-freaky-trigger-top-25-brands-no22-tarmac/#comment-87612 Blame Freaky Trigger. Your one stop shop for getting shite tunes lodged in yr brane.

]]> By: Dadaismus http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/the-freaky-trigger-top-25-brands-no22-tarmac/#comment-87608 Dadaismus Fri, 24 Nov 2006 14:15:21 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/the-freaky-trigger-top-25-brands-no22-tarmac/#comment-87608 … oh bollox, I’ve spent the last few days desperately trying (and failing) to stop singing “Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep” in my head only for it to be replaced by “The Bonnie Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond”

]]> By: Dadaismus http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/the-freaky-trigger-top-25-brands-no22-tarmac/#comment-87606 Dadaismus Fri, 24 Nov 2006 14:04:32 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/the-freaky-trigger-top-25-brands-no22-tarmac/#comment-87606 “You take the high road and I’ll take the low road…”

]]> By: Pete Baran http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/the-freaky-trigger-top-25-brands-no22-tarmac/#comment-87603 Pete Baran Fri, 24 Nov 2006 14:02:25 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/the-freaky-trigger-top-25-brands-no22-tarmac/#comment-87603 Including Traffic Jams!

They all wanted to build roads out of Scotland to get away, ha ha.

]]> By: Dadaismus http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/the-freaky-trigger-top-25-brands-no22-tarmac/#comment-87600 Dadaismus Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:35:17 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/the-freaky-trigger-top-25-brands-no22-tarmac/#comment-87600 For some reason it was Scottish inventors doing all this transport stuff

I think you’ll find we invented 63.3% of everything

]]> By: Pete Baran http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/the-freaky-trigger-top-25-brands-no22-tarmac/#comment-87597 Pete Baran Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:26:56 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/the-freaky-trigger-top-25-brands-no22-tarmac/#comment-87597 Of course he didn’t He died in 1835 and Tarmac was invented in 1901.

Macadam was made Cheif surveyor of roads, and given a grant of £5000, but it is true that in making it easier to maintain roads he exposed plenty of corruption in the Turnpike toll roads and they hounded him a bit professionally.

]]> By: Andrew Farrell http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/the-freaky-trigger-top-25-brands-no22-tarmac/#comment-87591 Andrew Farrell Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:14:38 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/the-freaky-trigger-top-25-brands-no22-tarmac/#comment-87591 John Loudon Macadam, the Mac in Tarmac, never got a single penny of course. But then neither did Ugg Tar, the caveman discoverer of the other half.

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