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Tue 17 Feb 2004 06:26
Road freaks - L'escargot
Whilst surfing the web, I came across this definition in the Scottish Youth Hostel Association quarterly The Scottish Hotelier.

"Road freaks: The kind of people - usually from the north of England - with whom you attempt to make polite conversation by asking as to their day's journey, only to be met with a meticulous, longwinded log of the roadworks on the A63, the snarlups on the B7418 and a nasty contraflow on the Cumbernauld section of the A80. Before Dr Beeching had his day, these people all came under the broader classification "trainspotter"."

I'm saying nothing!
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L'escargot by name, but not by nature.
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Tue 17 Feb 2004 07:46
Road freaks - Ian (Cape Town)
Bill Bryson made much of this in his Notes from a small island
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Tue 17 Feb 2004 09:06
Road freaks - Canon Fodder
Also well covered in the stockport pub based sitcom 'Early Doors'....


"...there's the culprit - temporary's on Rotherman street..."
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Tue 17 Feb 2004 13:22
Road freaks - Bromptonaut
Whilst surfing the web, I came across this definition in the
Scottish Youth Hostel Association quarterly The Scottish Hotelier.



I know the Scottish Association is beginning to follow some of the marketing daftness of its English counterpart, but Scottish Hosteller surely?
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Wed 18 Feb 2004 06:23
Road freaks - L'escargot

>> Whilst surfing the web, I came across this definition in
the
>> Scottish Youth Hostel Association quarterly The Scottish Hotelier.
I know the Scottish Association is beginning to follow some of
the marketing daftness of its English counterpart, but Scottish Hosteller surely?



I plead guilty, m'lud!
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L'escargot by name, but not by nature.
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Wed 18 Feb 2004 07:34
Road freaks - Sheepy-by-the-Sea
'The Scottish Hosteller' is/was also the name of a Class 37 diesel.

Trainspotting is not dead!!!
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