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On the eleventh of November 2009 there happened a pyschogeographical epic. A window of eleven hours to complete a circuit of Birmingham’s number eleven bus.

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    Brum words…

    March 15th, 2010 9:52 pm by Jon Bounds

    Although Wordle make everything look like a shoe, the MAC’s #brumwords is getting interesting:

    simon poulter - viral.info

    “Birmingham Word Cloud | As part of ‘plug in’ – the opening exhibition at the new mac gallery space in Birmingham – we are generating a city word cloud, entirely constructed from words submitted by the general public and associates. You can contribute your keywords (up to 5 please) by emailing Neil.Holland@macarts.co.uk or via twitter using the hashtag #brumwords”


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    • "Fantastically important." Dr Carl Chinn
    • "How Vulgar." Midlands Today's Kay Alexander
    • "Turns out, if you know what you're doing, Birmingham really isn't that shit." The Guardian
    • "You feel as if you've been projected into the 21st Century," says Mr Savalas, before signing off: "Yes, it's my kinda town. So long, Birmingham. Here's looking at ya." BBC News
    From our forums:
    • "a local comedian called Dr Carl Cheek , used the made up fact of the number 50 bus being the most regular bus route in Europe"
    • "Go to any Birmingham pub and some local will claim 'Tolkein used to drink in here'. If true, his apparent hobby of city-long pub crawls explains the p**s-poor quality of the Lord of the Rings."
    • "I was at the Frankfurt Christmas market today and when the carousel started up, I thought, "that tune sounds familiar" I listened for a little while just to be sure... Dambusters!"
    • "Where else would you see Dave Hill in a Little Chef?"
    • "Add your vote for Brum's Hardest Pub.
    • "Claire Short sent me a birthday card for my 18th Last week. It was a day late, and had a 2nd class stamp on it, but at least she made an effort..."
    • "But what about Kavs for Lav's, is Kav's still there?"
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