Kim Wilde – Kids in America
New York to east California, there's a new wave coming, I warn ya
“East California”? What, like San Bernadino? Why does this new wave end there? Why is the rest of California immune from it? “West California” or “South California” would have scanned equally well, albeit without making any less sense. Go and look at a map, and pull those sleeves down on that jacket while you’re at it.
Leo Sayer - Moonlighting
Meanwhile the Carlisle turn-off of the M6 Motorway, drinking cold black coffee eating hot cup-cakes….she laughs "My mother will have lost her mind, we're only ten miles to Gretna, they're three hundred behind"
Cheeky little f***er, Carlisle has got three junctions on the M6, which is three more than Shoreham-by-Sea, so don’t come it. Anyway why are you turning off? You just carry on from the end of the M6 to Gretna - even back then it just became the A74, going down to two lanes and without motorway classification, but you didn't need to turn off. Do that trip now and it doesn’t even do that, it stays as a motorway right through. Why stop off when you’re nearly at Gretna anyway? And if you turned off at the last Carlisle junction, which was the most likely place for cold coffee (at either the Trusthouse Forte Crest Motel as it would have been then, or the truck stop) it’s only six miles from there to Gretna – there’s a 10K that does that very route, and it’s been certified as accurate by a qualified course measurer.
The Smiths - Panic
Hopes may rise on the Grasmere, but honey pie, you're not safe here, so you run down, to the safety of the town, but there's Panic on the streets of Carlisle
Credit where it’s due, it’s “down” overall – Grasmere is 62m above sea level and Carlisle is 29m. However that’s some run – 35.5 miles on foot according to Google maps, though you may be able to shave off a mile or two by going on footpaths and bridleways (public and permissive) that Google doesn’t recognise. Why run to Carlisle though, there are plenty of other, nice towns that are closer – for example Penrith, Keswick and Windermere, all with branches of Booths. But you didn’t have a gig to promote in any of those places did you? Though the additional promotion was unnecessary, it sold out fairly quickly anyway.
Joe Strummer - From Willesden to Cricklewood
From Willesden to Cricklewood, I tell you the town looked good
What town’s this Joe? London? Walking from Willesden to Cricklewood doesn’t really provide a representative sample does it? It’s only 1.4 miles on foot, or 1.1 miles if you’d set off from Willesden Green tube station.
New York to east California, there's a new wave coming, I warn ya
“East California”? What, like San Bernadino? Why does this new wave end there? Why is the rest of California immune from it? “West California” or “South California” would have scanned equally well, albeit without making any less sense. Go and look at a map, and pull those sleeves down on that jacket while you’re at it.
Leo Sayer - Moonlighting
Meanwhile the Carlisle turn-off of the M6 Motorway, drinking cold black coffee eating hot cup-cakes….she laughs "My mother will have lost her mind, we're only ten miles to Gretna, they're three hundred behind"
Cheeky little f***er, Carlisle has got three junctions on the M6, which is three more than Shoreham-by-Sea, so don’t come it. Anyway why are you turning off? You just carry on from the end of the M6 to Gretna - even back then it just became the A74, going down to two lanes and without motorway classification, but you didn't need to turn off. Do that trip now and it doesn’t even do that, it stays as a motorway right through. Why stop off when you’re nearly at Gretna anyway? And if you turned off at the last Carlisle junction, which was the most likely place for cold coffee (at either the Trusthouse Forte Crest Motel as it would have been then, or the truck stop) it’s only six miles from there to Gretna – there’s a 10K that does that very route, and it’s been certified as accurate by a qualified course measurer.
The Smiths - Panic
Hopes may rise on the Grasmere, but honey pie, you're not safe here, so you run down, to the safety of the town, but there's Panic on the streets of Carlisle
Credit where it’s due, it’s “down” overall – Grasmere is 62m above sea level and Carlisle is 29m. However that’s some run – 35.5 miles on foot according to Google maps, though you may be able to shave off a mile or two by going on footpaths and bridleways (public and permissive) that Google doesn’t recognise. Why run to Carlisle though, there are plenty of other, nice towns that are closer – for example Penrith, Keswick and Windermere, all with branches of Booths. But you didn’t have a gig to promote in any of those places did you? Though the additional promotion was unnecessary, it sold out fairly quickly anyway.
Joe Strummer - From Willesden to Cricklewood
From Willesden to Cricklewood, I tell you the town looked good
What town’s this Joe? London? Walking from Willesden to Cricklewood doesn’t really provide a representative sample does it? It’s only 1.4 miles on foot, or 1.1 miles if you’d set off from Willesden Green tube station.
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