Does Slough have any good points?

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Its just I've got to come up with a publicity campaign for it and am struggling.

― Will, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Come, friendly new answers, and fall on my thread.

― Will, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Don't have a cow - come to Slough!"

― katie, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

By Jove, I think she has it! ;-)

― Will, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Don't have a cough, come to Slough!"

― Sam, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

She-she-Sheila get to Slough!

― Alan Trewartha, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Home of Mars bars.

― Billy Dods, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There's a *really* nice little parish church somewhere in the outskirts.

As far as advertising goes, I recommend a pastiche 1960s beat pop band called Biff Bang Slough! They could wander around pointing at things in Slough and referring to them as groovy, etc.

― Tim, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Can I just, at this point, declare my undying love for you all. This is solid gold! :-)

― Will, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Slough - so good they named it."

― Sam, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Don't have a cuff, come to Slough!"

― Sam, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Don't be like Coe, come to Slough!"

― Sam, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Mars factory in Slough contains the world's largest microwave oven, used to cook the honeycomb inside maltesers.

Tim Hopkins, sometimes you are a funny fucker.

― chris, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A Slough is a prarie bog/swamp/wetland . It is good for ducks,geese and other migratory water fowl.

― anthony, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That little Parish church is where a lot of my dad's side of the family seem to be buried, I think it's actually in Langley. Which all used to be countryside in them days, apparently. before they started building industrial estates.
erm, good things, a handy stop off just before the m25?

― Bill, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

SLOUGH! It's not nearly as shit as you'd imagine.

― Alan Trewartha, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"SLOUGH - no worse than any number of other small towns that didn't bear the brunt of proto-Suzy Betjeman's snobby pontifications"

― Nick, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"It fucks you up, your mum and Slough"

My friend Marcello (no relation) is from Slough. He used to have loads of miniature Mars Bars in his sitting room But he lives in Windsor now. This isn't very helpful.

"Don't go to Slough, it 'Slough'sy!" (say it out loud)

― Mark C, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

D'ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Now co-workers are looking at me like fule, why do I not learn to speak in but the merest whisper?

― Sarah, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i bought my first car in slough, (or the slough of despond, as my family calls it). it was then that i discovered the marvelous view it had to offer, namely being the ever decreasing one in your rear view mirror. good luck will, our esteemed military friend general opinion seems to think you have your work cut out.

― another james, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Slough has a shoppping centre...and the TVU building was designed by a top architect. And...it's only 20 minutes to Ealing!! hehe! :)

― james, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Desperately disappointing fact = we went on a geography field trip to Slough, and they wouldn't let us in the Mars factory!

― james, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lots to see and do! Wow! It's Slough!

― james, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Not quite sure what happened to the serious part of my post, still the jokey bit remained.

― Pete, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think this bit:

Picture of business-man looking happy and radiant getting of the train whilst inside are sad commuters

got eaten because you surrounded it with < and >.

― RickyT, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Slough - Gateway to the Thames Valley.
Suprising Slough.
Up Yours Betjamin.

― stevo, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Slough, better than Bracknell (but not as good as Reading).

― Billy Dods, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dastoor hits the nail on the head here, though Betjeman was far too ruralist to be described as a "proto-Suzy". The analogy did make me laugh out loud, though.

Can I come up with another of my obscure political anecdotes? OK then: in Slough in 1992 there was a breakaway Labour candidate (infighting in the local party etc.) who got more votes than the Tories' majority over the official Labour candidate, with an unsually high number of spoiled ballot papers, presumably people trying to vote for both Labour candidates and not knowing that any such paper is automatically declared void. By the end of the Major era, with their majority of 21 seats having been whittled away in so many by- elections, that one seat was crucial in allowing the Tories to struggle on to the very limit of their five years' maximum. Needless to say, the seat has been Labour since 1997.

― Robin Carmody, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

slough- more than a town, its a way of life.

― Menelaus Darcy, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Suzy isn't that bad, you know.

― DG, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

nor's betjeman

― mark s, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well quite.

But both are symbolic of the snobbery that both urbanists and ruralists have always held for the places in which many (possibly most) British people live.

― Robin Carmody, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Support Chairman Mao, come to Slough".

― Ronan, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"They called it Slough of Despond for a reason."

*pause*

Okay, not so much a boost for the place...

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Slough, more left-wing than Windsor."

― Robin Carmody, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But is it ART, Robin?

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

May not be art, but it is the truth, as any political map of the UK will show.

Might put off Tory voters though :).

― Robin Carmody, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three years pass...

How quaint we all were.

Slough!

http://www.boreme.com/bm/DEC02/a/office/pic1.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 March 2005 06:00 (twenty-one years ago)

ten months pass...

I have been to Slough (and Staines) on many, many occasions.

― [tuvan throat singer's profound lyric sheet-must read again] (nordicskilla), Friday, 6 January 2006 23:51 (twenty years ago)

Slough off, fuXor!

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Saturday, 7 January 2006 00:07 (twenty years ago)

Slough. The Slough Dreams Are Made Of.

is the campaign over? cuz i've got a real winner here.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Saturday, 7 January 2006 00:08 (twenty years ago)

"up yours betjeman" would be the single best slogan to base an ad campaign around one could ever come up with for slough, nothing could make it seem cooler (in both directions). the campaign would have to be fucking wicked as well. is the office set in slough or is that staines?

― emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 7 January 2006 01:36 (twenty years ago)

I'm surprised they haven't capitalized on The Office more.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Saturday, 7 January 2006 07:44 (twenty years ago)

it's hardly as if "the office" makes slough look like a hip and happening place though - they're in no position to say "hey! come and see the random anonymous industrial estate car park where finchy shagged that bird doggy-style"...

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Saturday, 7 January 2006 09:50 (twenty years ago)

Still, it's a lot better than being some OTHER dull town with anonymous industrial estate car parks.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Saturday, 7 January 2006 18:12 (twenty years ago)

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