Walk the dinosaur

31 July 2008
By Jon Bounds

I just wanted to share a little bit of image dyslexia I suffered from with the old Bull Ring. When I saw the sign on the over-road bit, I didn’t think ‘bull’.

Flickr Photo Download: Bull Ring Birmingham

I always thought it was a diplopocus, a big dinosaur. The bull’s tail was the huge herbivore’s head, I just didn’t make the connection between the “Bull Ring” and a pic/statue of a bull. I eventually realised, but like when I originally read “ROFL” as “ROLF” it’s not really possible to change it in my mind.

Now the sign has gone of course, I can’t readjust my head.

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39 Responses to Walk the dinosaur

  1. Getgood on 31 July 2008 at 12:36 pm

    You probably know this, but I’m afraid the Dino’s dead – no one thought to save the sign as a souvenir when they knocked down the old place. A builder managed to save a disjointed pair of legs from a skip, but that was the last of it. It was a story in a local rag, which I naturally can’t find on the internet now.

  2. brendadada on 31 July 2008 at 1:24 pm

    I’m not surprised it’s been skipped. In fact it was so huge, it was probably smashed up al the building was taken down, and not even removed separately. Booo.

  3. Ana MB on 1 August 2008 at 10:08 am

    Yeah, I had a similar thing, I thought it was a tortoise for ages.

  4. fatboyfat on 3 August 2008 at 1:02 am

    And thought I was the only one who thought it was a Brontosaurus, when I used to pass under it on the 50 bus from Maypole every morning.

  5. Leon Trimble on 26 January 2009 at 11:07 pm

    yeah i thought it was a dinosaur as well. did your parents have that natural history book with the fold out inside back cover with silhouettes of the evolutionary chain in too?

  6. Anonymous on 28 December 2009 at 8:36 pm

    oh my god i have belived for 30 odd years it was a tortoise till last night during a disscusion. my childhood memories are in tatters

  7. Anonymous on 28 December 2009 at 8:36 pm

    oh my god i have belived for 30 odd years it was a tortoise till last night during a disscusion. my childhood memories are in tatters

  8. Anonymous on 28 December 2009 at 8:36 pm

    oh my god i have belived for 30 odd years it was a tortoise till last night during a disscusion. my childhood memories are in tatters

  9. Anonymous on 28 December 2009 at 8:36 pm

    oh my god i have belived for 30 odd years it was a tortoise till last night during a disscusion. my childhood memories are in tatters

  10. Anonymous on 28 December 2009 at 8:36 pm

    oh my god i have belived for 30 odd years it was a tortoise till last night during a disscusion. my childhood memories are in tatters

  11. Anonymous on 28 December 2009 at 8:36 pm

    oh my god i have belived for 30 odd years it was a tortoise till last night during a disscusion. my childhood memories are in tatters

  12. Anonymous on 28 December 2009 at 8:36 pm

    oh my god i have belived for 30 odd years it was a tortoise till last night during a disscusion. my childhood memories are in tatters

  13. Anonymous on 28 December 2009 at 8:36 pm

    oh my god i have belived for 30 odd years it was a tortoise till last night during a disscusion. my childhood memories are in tatters

  14. Anonymous on 28 December 2009 at 8:36 pm

    oh my god i have belived for 30 odd years it was a tortoise till last night during a disscusion. my childhood memories are in tatters

  15. Anonymous on 28 December 2009 at 8:36 pm

    oh my god i have belived for 30 odd years it was a tortoise till last night during a disscusion. my childhood memories are in tatters

  16. Anonymous on 28 December 2009 at 8:36 pm

    oh my god i have belived for 30 odd years it was a tortoise till last night during a disscusion. my childhood memories are in tatters

  17. Anonymous on 28 December 2009 at 8:36 pm

    oh my god i have belived for 30 odd years it was a tortoise till last night during a disscusion. my childhood memories are in tatters

  18. Anonymous on 28 December 2009 at 8:36 pm

    oh my god i have belived for 30 odd years it was a tortoise till last night during a disscusion. my childhood memories are in tatters

  19. Anonymous on 28 December 2009 at 8:36 pm

    oh my god i have belived for 30 odd years it was a tortoise till last night during a disscusion. my childhood memories are in tatters

  20. Anonymous on 28 December 2009 at 8:36 pm

    oh my god i have belived for 30 odd years it was a tortoise till last night during a disscusion. my childhood memories are in tatters

  21. Anonymous on 28 December 2009 at 8:36 pm

    oh my god i have belived for 30 odd years it was a tortoise till last night during a disscusion. my childhood memories are in tatters

  22. Anonymous on 28 December 2009 at 8:36 pm

    oh my god i have belived for 30 odd years it was a tortoise till last night during a disscusion. my childhood memories are in tatters

  23. Anonymous on 28 December 2009 at 8:36 pm

    oh my god i have belived for 30 odd years it was a tortoise till last night during a disscusion. my childhood memories are in tatters

  24. Anonymous on 28 December 2009 at 8:36 pm

    oh my god i have belived for 30 odd years it was a tortoise till last night during a disscusion. my childhood memories are in tatters

  25. Anonymous on 28 December 2009 at 8:36 pm

    oh my god i have belived for 30 odd years it was a tortoise till last night during a disscusion. my childhood memories are in tatters

  26. Anonymous on 28 December 2009 at 8:36 pm

    oh my god i have belived for 30 odd years it was a tortoise till last night during a disscusion. my childhood memories are in tatters

  27. Anonymous on 28 December 2009 at 8:36 pm

    oh my god i have belived for 30 odd years it was a tortoise till last night during a disscusion. my childhood memories are in tatters

  28. Anonymous on 28 December 2009 at 8:36 pm

    oh my god i have belived for 30 odd years it was a tortoise till last night during a disscusion. my childhood memories are in tatters

  29. Anonymous on 28 December 2009 at 8:36 pm

    oh my god i have belived for 30 odd years it was a tortoise till last night during a disscusion. my childhood memories are in tatters

  30. Anonymous on 28 December 2009 at 8:36 pm

    oh my god i have belived for 30 odd years it was a tortoise till last night during a disscusion. my childhood memories are in tatters

  31. Anonymous on 28 December 2009 at 8:36 pm

    oh my god i have belived for 30 odd years it was a tortoise till last night during a disscusion. my childhood memories are in tatters

  32. Anonymous on 28 December 2009 at 8:36 pm

    oh my god i have belived for 30 odd years it was a tortoise till last night during a disscusion. my childhood memories are in tatters

  33. Anonymous on 28 December 2009 at 8:36 pm

    oh my god i have belived for 30 odd years it was a tortoise till last night during a disscusion. my childhood memories are in tatters

  34. Anonymous on 28 December 2009 at 8:36 pm

    oh my god i have belived for 30 odd years it was a tortoise till last night during a disscusion. my childhood memories are in tatters

  35. Anonymous on 28 December 2009 at 8:36 pm

    oh my god i have belived for 30 odd years it was a tortoise till last night during a disscusion. my childhood memories are in tatters

  36. Anonymous on 28 December 2009 at 8:36 pm

    oh my god i have belived for 30 odd years it was a tortoise till last night during a disscusion. my childhood memories are in tatters

  37. Anonymous on 28 December 2009 at 8:36 pm

    oh my god i have belived for 30 odd years it was a tortoise till last night during a disscusion. my childhood memories are in tatters

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  39. hannahyeo on 28 December 2009 at 9:36 pm

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