Clockwork Orange-can YOU help?

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Clockwork Orange-can YOU help?

Postby kingfisher » Wed Sep 22, 2004 10:59 am

Hello

I am a Freelance Journalist writing a feature for a Scottish paper on life on Glasgow's Subway. Have you experienced anything strange on the subway, or have had an experience that really needs to be told? Whtever it is, big, small or even incredible, please tell me about it. The best way to contact me is on [email protected] DO IT TODAY!

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Re: Clockwork Orange-can YOU help?

Postby red_kola » Wed Sep 22, 2004 9:15 pm

kingfisher wrote:I am a Freelance Journalist writing a feature for a Scottish paper on life on Glasgow's Subway. Have you experienced anything strange on the subway, or have had an experience that really needs to be told? Whtever it is, big, small or even incredible, please tell me about it. The best way to contact me is on [email protected] DO IT TODAY!


Once!!! When I was on the tube!!! I actually heard someone refer to it as the Clockwork Orange!!! Fucking hell, it was a once-in-a-lifetime, totally amazing experience, sure never to be repeated outside of the fourth estate...
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Re: Clockwork Orange-can YOU help?

Postby Ronnie » Thu Sep 23, 2004 12:11 am

kingfisher wrote:Freelance Journalist


Whoo! Initial Capitals! Mucho Importanto!
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Re: Clockwork Orange-can YOU help?

Postby Sylvia » Mon Sep 27, 2004 12:34 am

Ronnie wrote:
kingfisher wrote:Freelance Journalist


Whoo! Initial Capitals! Mucho Importanto!



Awwww ........that's cruel :mrgreen:
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Postby Blueboy » Mon Sep 27, 2004 12:51 am

I've had many strange experiences on the subway. They usually get off at Kelvinbridge.
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Postby crusty_bint » Mon Sep 27, 2004 1:34 am

Blueboy wrote:I've had many strange experiences on the subway. They usually get off at Kelvinbridge.


hahahhaha ::):

The strangest experience I've had on the subway was when the ticket machine in Bridge St actually worked. It was back o.o.o. the next day :roll:
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Postby turbozutek » Mon Sep 27, 2004 7:24 am

I have an experiance to share:

I got on the subway one time at St Enoch and a floating sheep's skull of death with flames behind it's eyes popped up from the platform and told me to stop taking so much acid.

I'm not sure what that was about - or the morale of the story but it freaked me out for a few minutes.

Chris...

PS: Oh, I was also on acid at the time.
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Postby DMcNay » Mon Sep 27, 2004 7:27 am

You know, if you're on acid, it's always a good idea not to be on acid.

Just a tip if you're on acid.
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Re: Clockwork Orange-can YOU help?

Postby aliferste » Mon Sep 27, 2004 9:09 am

kingfisher wrote:
or have had an experience that really needs to be told......even incredible,


Once on the underground the lights went out and everyone on the carriage went "OOOOOOooooooOOOOHHHH"


and a ned shouted

"yer maw"
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Postby escotregen » Mon Sep 27, 2004 9:10 am

Turbozutek must have have been that strange experience I had on the underground
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Postby turbozutek » Mon Sep 27, 2004 9:12 am

escotregen wrote:Turbozutek must have have been that strange experience I had on the underground


Meeting me for the first time is always a strange experiance I'm told.

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Postby DMcNay » Mon Sep 27, 2004 9:13 am

turbozutek wrote:
Meeting me for the first time is always a strange experiance I'm told.

Chris...


There's no answer to that....
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Postby escotregen » Mon Sep 27, 2004 9:22 am

Well, to be strictly correct Chris I don't think I met you... you just kinda happened to me... and then it was Govan Cross; a coincidence or what?
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Postby DMcNay » Mon Sep 27, 2004 9:27 am

Getting back on topic...I think I CAN help.

Go into HMV...it'll be in the DVDs under either A for "A Clockwork Orange", C for "Clockwork Orange, A" or K for "Kubrick, Stanley".

"Full Metal Jacket"'s a better film, though.....
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Re: Clockwork Orange-can YOU help?

Postby scotia47 » Mon Sep 27, 2004 7:47 pm

aliferste wrote:
kingfisher wrote:
or have had an experience that really needs to be told......even incredible,


Once on the underground the lights went out and everyone on the carriage went "OOOOOOooooooOOOOHHHH"


and a ned shouted

"yer maw"


LMFAO!

On Wednesdays in uni I had a two hour break between a lecture and my maths tutorial. Invariably I used this time to bugger off to the St. Enoch centre for something to eat and a general wander about. Never saw anything too weird, except:

1. Remember when the Subway was celebrating its centenary, they had two cars repainted into a retro crimson/cream livery? Eight years on, both cars (122 & 127) are still adorned in those colours. Not that I'm complaining, I like that livery. :)

2. One time (can't remember when exactly) when I was boarding a train on the Inner Circle at St. Enoch, another train appeared on the opposite platform with its internal lights out. The PA told passengers not to board it, as it was an "engineer's train". :?

3. Finally, it was only when I was getting off a train at Hillhead when I noticed that it was only formed of 2 cars instead of the usual 3. I think this was early on in May, just before the Glasgow Uni summer exams started.

Nothing earth-shattering, but at least the use of acid wasn't required.

Oh, and I would also like to say that the Sunday service on the Subway is nothing short of pitiful. Last year when the Xmas lights were switched on at George Square, I ended up stranded in Govan when the system closed 5 hours earlier than it does on every other day of the week.

Of course, I wouldn't have needed to use the Subway at all that night if the Glasgow Queen St-Maryhill service ran on Sundays. :evil:
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