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Bloody Ignorant Yanks
« on: September 21, 2008, 10:43:04 AM »
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It might sound like an idea from a 1960s hippy gathering, but there really is such a thing as a musical highway.

A section of Avenue K in a Californian desert town uses grooves cut into the road surface to play the Lone Ranger theme to cars driving along it.

Has nobody told them that the "Lone Ranger theme" is in fact the finale to the Overture of the opera "William Tell" composed by Gioachino Rossini and first publically performed in 1829.

And the Yanks wonder why we laugh at them  Banghead
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Re: Bloody Ignorant Yanks
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2008, 11:07:27 AM »
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Re: Bloody Ignorant Yanks
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2008, 11:12:07 AM »
Leave my brother "Lone" alone!
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« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2008, 11:12:54 AM »
Quote from: The Moan Ranger on September 21, 2008, 11:12:07 AM
Leave my brother "Lone" alone!
Do you have a sister called Jet...?  eyes:
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Re: Bloody Ignorant Yanks
« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2008, 11:18:28 AM »
No, but in my racing leathers, I have been called a "Power"
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Re: Bloody Ignorant Yanks
« Reply #5 on: September 21, 2008, 11:20:56 AM »
Are you sure you heard them right?
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Re: Bloody Ignorant Yanks
« Reply #6 on: September 21, 2008, 11:22:39 AM »
Quote from: Snoopy on September 21, 2008, 11:20:56 AM
Are you sure you heard them right?
You can't hear much with a full-face helmet on...  whistle:
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« Reply #7 on: September 21, 2008, 11:23:42 AM »
The Beagle sulks around his lair
He huffs and puffs and scowls
He paces up and down the place
With drool dribbling from his jowels.
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Re: Bloody Ignorant Yanks
« Reply #8 on: September 21, 2008, 11:28:04 AM »
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Re: Bloody Ignorant Yanks
« Reply #9 on: September 21, 2008, 11:35:03 AM »
Quote from: The Moan Ranger on September 21, 2008, 11:23:42 AM
The Beagle sulks around his lair
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I stand corrected...

You are Pam Ayres, I claim my 3d...  noooo:
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Re: Bloody Ignorant Yanks
« Reply #10 on: September 21, 2008, 01:32:06 PM »
I like that grooves in the road idea. It would make the school run more fun. I wonder if they could do Leonard Cohen?
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« Reply #11 on: September 21, 2008, 01:38:46 PM »
Quote from: Nick on September 21, 2008, 01:32:06 PM
I like that grooves in the road idea. It would make the school run more fun. I wonder if they could do Leonard Cohen?
Isn't he dead...?  rubschin:
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Re: Bloody Ignorant Yanks
« Reply #12 on: September 21, 2008, 01:39:40 PM »
So is the Lone Ranger, you dolt. I spect the potholes round here play Ride of the Valkyries if you judge your speed right  evil:
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Re: Bloody Ignorant Yanks
« Reply #13 on: September 21, 2008, 01:41:36 PM »
Quote from: Nick on September 21, 2008, 01:39:40 PM
So is the Lone Ranger, you dolt. I spect the potholes round here play Ride of the Valkyries if you judge your speed right  evil:
The Lone Ranger is dead?????  eeek:
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Re: Bloody Ignorant Yanks
« Reply #14 on: September 21, 2008, 01:44:23 PM »
Yep!

It happend like this. LR and Tonto are ridng across the plains when suddenly they are surrounded by Indians.

LR looks across at Tonto and says "Looks like we're in trouble Tonto"

and Tonto says .................


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"Whaddya mean WE? ~ Paleface"












Collar, Lead, Walkies ........................
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