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by Robert Popper on March 10, 2009 · View Comments

Yup, all you had to do was dial 160…

‘Tweedle Dee, Tweedle Dum’ v ‘Middle of the Road’: But which will it be?

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1 Scaryduck March 10, 2009 at 9:28 am: Where I came from, Dial-a-disc shared 160 with the cricket scores. You paid your money and took your chance, and most of the time it was an in-depth look at the Derbyshire vs Kent scorecard.
2 Gailoh March 10, 2009 at 9:45 am: I remember getting in horrendous trouble as a child for racking up debt so I could hear my favourite songs. So unreasonable were my parents, you think with my dad being a miner on strike they’d have had other things to worry about.
3 Superhans March 10, 2009 at 11:16 am: I used to ring 161. Got the same tracks but illegal and free.
4 Paul McIntosh March 10, 2009 at 11:53 am: I used to dial 061 to listen to them backwards in hope of finding “satanic messages”
5 Tom Daylight March 10, 2009 at 1:19 pm: There are times when I wish I were living in a past era.

This is not one of them.
6 Ben March 10, 2009 at 6:34 pm: I lived near Liverpool, and there was a number that you could dial to listen live to the the local station Radio City: Much more convenient than switching on the radio itself. Luckily, my elderly grandparents never realised it was me due to lack of itemised billing at the time – hooray for the past!
7 Stu March 10, 2009 at 11:00 pm: Christ, that sounds like some kind of civilian equivalent of a numbers station, from the emotionless voice to the terrifying Sinclair Spectrum bleeping. QUATRE HUIT QUINZE SEIZE VINGT-TROIS QUARANTE-DEUX. QUATRE HUIT QUINZE SEIZE VINGT-TROIS QUARANTE-DEUX. QUATRE HUIT QUINZE SEIZE VINGT-TROIS QUARANTE-DEUX. [bleeeeeep bleep bleep]
8 Matthew July 20, 2009 at 5:48 pm: Er, ‘Tweedle-Dee, Tweedle-Dum’ was BY Middle of the Road.

It was shyte.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9ARcLTcqoA