Walk the dinosaur
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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’.
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.
This entry was posted on Thursday, July 31st, 2008 at 11:50 am by Jon Bounds and is filed under history. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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on 31 July 2008 at 12:36 pm Getgood wrote:
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.
on 31 July 2008 at 1:24 pm brendadada wrote:
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.
on 1 August 2008 at 10:08 am Ana MB wrote:
Yeah, I had a similar thing, I thought it was a tortoise for ages.
on 3 August 2008 at 1:02 am fatboyfat wrote:
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.