Comments on: The FreakyTrigger Top 25 Brands: 22: TARMAC https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/the-freaky-trigger-top-25-brands-no22-tarmac Lollards in the high church of low culture Mon, 15 May 2023 23:25:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: SeaSafe https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/the-freaky-trigger-top-25-brands-no22-tarmac/comment-page-1#comment-2581887 Fri, 17 Mar 2023 20:29:50 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/the-freaky-trigger-top-25-brands-no22-tarmac/#comment-2581887 These are great list to check out for sure!

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By: jamesgeller911 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/the-freaky-trigger-top-25-brands-no22-tarmac/comment-page-1#comment-2567595 Fri, 06 May 2022 15:58:04 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/the-freaky-trigger-top-25-brands-no22-tarmac/#comment-2567595 Are all members here? iowacityconcretecontractors.com/

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By: Monica Bing https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/the-freaky-trigger-top-25-brands-no22-tarmac/comment-page-1#comment-2567594 Fri, 06 May 2022 15:54:23 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/the-freaky-trigger-top-25-brands-no22-tarmac/#comment-2567594 You got some points there grandrapidsgeneratorservices.com/

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By: Kim Lo https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/the-freaky-trigger-top-25-brands-no22-tarmac/comment-page-1#comment-2557175 Wed, 08 Dec 2021 11:16:13 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/the-freaky-trigger-top-25-brands-no22-tarmac/#comment-2557175 Actually it is the roller part which marked Hooley’s technique out, the pressure helped the tar set quicker, and had the happy side-product of making the road surface very level.

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By: Pete Baran https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/the-freaky-trigger-top-25-brands-no22-tarmac/comment-page-1#comment-87612 Fri, 24 Nov 2006 14:31:59 +0000 https://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.

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By: Dadaismus https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/the-freaky-trigger-top-25-brands-no22-tarmac/comment-page-1#comment-87608 Fri, 24 Nov 2006 14:15:21 +0000 https://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”

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By: Dadaismus https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/the-freaky-trigger-top-25-brands-no22-tarmac/comment-page-1#comment-87606 Fri, 24 Nov 2006 14:04:32 +0000 https://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…”

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By: Pete Baran https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/the-freaky-trigger-top-25-brands-no22-tarmac/comment-page-1#comment-87603 Fri, 24 Nov 2006 14:02:25 +0000 https://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.

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By: Dadaismus https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/the-freaky-trigger-top-25-brands-no22-tarmac/comment-page-1#comment-87600 Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:35:17 +0000 https://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

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By: Pete Baran https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/the-freaky-trigger-top-25-brands-no22-tarmac/comment-page-1#comment-87597 Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:26:56 +0000 https://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.

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By: Andrew Farrell https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/11/the-freaky-trigger-top-25-brands-no22-tarmac/comment-page-1#comment-87591 Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:14:38 +0000 https://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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