h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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I've always wanted to know this about Birmingham...Is the "Jaaneman" restaurant on Ladypool road still going?

Oooh I don't know.. but theres loads of Baltis on Ladypool road!

trying desperately hard to work out your latest "callsign", I'm sure it is something really deep & meaningful &/or a marvellous pun. I shall have to consult with who is annoyingly much better at this than me.
You wouldn't just have put it there "cos they look nice together would you??

thinx: tit pony bigeyes
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--- maybe to the tune of "zippadee-doo-dah"?
hmmmm

Get out there & search for the Jaaneman, you're supposed to be a Scout! It was near the bottom end, near where Stoney Lane crosses it.
If no es can find out, I'll send an e-mail to my mate Andy, who's there in RL, except he isn't at the moment, he's in Malaga, lucky sod!

OH dear I do hate to disapoint you but I've just decided to get a larger vairety of smilies into my h2g2 vocabulary so I've taken to signing of with three random ones! Shame that cos now we have we could even try writing naughty things eg. . Oh dear that'll be my dirty mind again..

I've just had a look in the yellow pages and can't find the Jaaneman !

well it could be representing a donkey, not a horse, and a donkey can be called an 'ass' so it could be

tit, ass, bigeyes!

I think I might have to change it to

Y (_|_)

I've always wanted to know this about Birmingham...where is the theme park in Brum

The closest one is just out of the city limits, the other side of Sutton Coldfield called "Drayton Manor" and you can find more here: http://www.draytonmanor.co.uk/

Would you consider something like Cadbury World? (In Bournville)

*Claim to fame time*

I worked at Drayton manor Park (on the dodgems, aged 17)

I won a brilliant box of from Cadbury's for writing "The story of " (aged 9)

I'm still waiting for someone to send me a decent balti through the post!

Terri.

Something that has been bugging me for a few years. On the train journey out from b'ham, once the train leaves Wolverhampton there is a big blue industrial plant, lots of very serious looking big manufacturing type buildings and on the side it says, in big big letters, 'Beans Foundry'

So, what is a beans foundry? Is it where they hammer out baked beans on an assembly line? Or is it merely a foundry owned by someone or a company called 'Beans' ?

It is indeed a foundry of metals, once a family owned firm from which it takes it's name now run by the UK arm of a German (I think) outfit - Bruhl UK (umlaut over the u but I can't find it on this keyboard).

I was taken round there on an 'industrial week' local 'A'-Level physics students were involved with rather than doing regular work experience from their 6th forms - if memory serves me right they produce engine components for the automotive industry and at the time housed the production line for the Reliant Robin (this was in the early 90's when the Robin was still going, just and was moving about a bit) in a lasrge portacabin suspended from the roof (aluminium engines and plastic bodies that could easily be picked up by a single person, weight wasn't really a problem )

thanks dasilva, sorry for the delay in said thanks.

Another question.

On a map, like the linked one on the brum meet page, is the front (ie main entrance with taxi area and escalators to the shops) of B'Ham New Street North or South?

I'm assuming North.

I think it's the sounth entrance actually, I've just a hunch, it's certainly the entrance you leave with when you're going to south birmingham.

Oh, right, so if I want to go to say the central Library then do I leave by the main exit or the rear exit?

Humm central libary, I think the easiest way would be to go via the rear exit. This brings you out onto Navigation street it's self. If you carry straight on up the hill you can get to New Street the street, if you take a left along new street, (again in a up hill direction) you get to victoira square. Central libaray is on the far left corner of victoria square, up some steps and opposite a fountain.

sp that's turn right out the back of new street?

No, it's...

Cross the road,

Take the street directly opposite it, (up hill)

then turn left