Maryhill Explosion

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― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been to maryhill.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

have you ever been up maryhill?

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

It's even closer to my flat than I first thought. I'm glad I wasn't there.

RJG, I thought for a minute you were going to do the "I've been up Maryhill" joke. I would've lost some respect for you, I think.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

but i did do the joke.

it's not well known outside the west of glasgow schools system. Annie Sland &c.

but not Gartnav Hill. that doesn't work.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I would have, too.

crosspost

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

hahahahahaha it was a x-post. Now I've lost respect for you, Robbie Lumsden.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

i was shocked there was any to lose...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been up garnethill.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

my friend got beaten up by a boy called garnet. that's embarassing.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

you don't know embarrassing.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I think this thread should be dedicated to weak innuendoes involving Glasgow placenames, in tribute to those who may have been hurt/covered in dust in Maryhill.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

...could that include saying Springboig in an hilarious Noo Yoik accent?

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

that's embarrassing.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

This woman is Mary Hill:

http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/caaas/contact_info/images/sfpictures/mary-hill.gif

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

It certainly could (x-post)
The 'I've been up...' formula only works with Jordanhill and Bellahouston and possibly Petershill. So I'll have to be cleverer than that.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm going to mount ellen.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

It seems there's a pornstar called Bella Houston but unfortunately I'm in a public library and scared to do further research.

That's the spirit, RJG.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Maryhill is still there, now?

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

in part.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I hope so, pinefox.

I'm rubbish at my own game. I've been trying to think up one for Whiteinch for three minutes.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Maryhill is a prostitute.

― Andy Jay, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm very pleased about Bella Houston being a porn star. If only I had known this on Friday when I could have impressed a room full of Bella scum!

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I could have impressed a room full of Bellas cum!

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

If we could return to the tragedy in which three people died for a minute, I heard the explosion from my work in the city centre except I thought it was thunder. I used to live about two hundred yards away from where it happened.

The scariest thing is the distances they have been roping in the emergency services from. Imagine a major incident in the city centre, rather than concentrated on one building in the West End? Sheesh...

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

: (

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

the death toll has risen to 4 now. : (

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Looks like it's more serious than I thought. Scary. :(((

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:32 (twenty-two years ago)

It's awful bad luck for the area, not long ago they had a devestating fire just round the corner. These things come in threes? Hope not.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 10:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I passed it on my way home last night - sent a shiver up my spine, even worse to see it for real...

― smee (smee), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 10:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Eight dead so far.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 12:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Really? Shit. They still pulling people out alive? Last I heard they pulled somebody out ay 9 last night and they aren't in contact with anyone else that's trapped....

― smee (smee), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

The news reports are getting very depressing...it's only round the corner, but I haven't been that way and I don't want to deliberately go to look. This is horrible :((((

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 13:11 (twenty-two years ago)

They haven't heard any noises since the tapping stopped at about 5.30 this morning. The boss is still missing - apparently he was holding a meeting with about 10 people on the top (?) floor when the explosion happened.

("Situated 3 miles (5 km) north west from Glasgow's city centre, Maryhill was established by Robert Graham in the late 18th Century and was named after his wife, Mary Hill."

http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/towns/townfirst490.html)

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 13:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I'll have to stop listening to the news for a while. It's making me feel kind of ill knowing it's all happening so close. I hope the people who are in hospital recover.

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)

The townsfolk are out in force hanging over the temp barriers like spectators at a 70's football match. What is it in our nature that makes us such ghouls?

They are going to start tearing the building down tomorrow as it's too unstable to leave any longer. I so hope they get out everybody before the place comes down.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 13:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I know, why do people do that? Having said that I look everytime the bus passes, it's hard not to...

― smee (smee), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

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