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Happy centenary to the pips

ChizzChizz
in Not Sports Related
The five, short and one long pip that signals the top of the hour, were first broadcast on 5 February 1924.  

Largely redundant now (like Alan Curbishley), and long-since departed from Greenwich (ditto), the pips are part of the fabric of this country.  

Happy birthday to the pip-pip-pip-pip-piiiiiiips 

Comments

  • EveshamAddickEveshamAddick
    I expect there are kids today who have no idea what you’re talking about!!
  • ChizzChizz
    EveshamAddick said:
    I expect there are kids today who have no idea what you’re talking about!!
    Always the case, tbh
  • StigStig
    I love the pips feels like a part of our heritage. I also love the way that they used them as the basis for the BBC News theme.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y90hBN0wytY
  • Manic_maniaManic_mania
    EveshamAddick said:
    I expect there are kids today who have no idea what you’re talking about!!
    I'm nearly 40 and i had to google what it was TBH... Not a radio person and the only pips I could think of was the ones on the old payphones when the money was about to run out !
  • sillav nitramsillav nitram
    edited February 5
    What about Glady’s Knight, didn’t think she was that old?
  • MrOneLungMrOneLung
    Chizz said:
    The five, short and one long pip that signals the top of the hour, were first broadcast on 5 February 1924.  

    Largely redundant now (like Alan Curbishley), and long-since departed from Greenwich (ditto), the pips are part of the fabric of this country.  

    Happy birthday to the pip-pip-pip-pip-piiiiiiips 
    This is triggering me. 
  • ChizzChizz
    MrOneLung said:
    Chizz said:
    The five, short and one long pip that signals the top of the hour, were first broadcast on 5 February 1924.  

    Largely redundant now (like Alan Curbishley), and long-since departed from Greenwich (ditto), the pips are part of the fabric of this country.  

    Happy birthday to the pip-pip-pip-pip-piiiiiiips 
    This is triggering me. 
    Pipdantic 
  • IdleHansIdleHans
    edited February 6
    sillav nitram said:
    What about Glady’s Knight, didn’t think she was that old?
    I'm not a grammar nazi* but i really hope that apostrophe was due to autocorrect!

    *well, perhaps a bit
  • sillav nitramsillav nitram
    IdleHans said:
    sillav nitram said:
    What about Glady’s Knight, didn’t think she was that old?
    I'm not a grammar nazi* but i really hope that apostrophe was due to autocorrect!

    *well, perhaps a bit
    Of course, would I make a silly grammar mistake, Constable 👮?
  • IdleHansIdleHans
    Perhap's
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  • sillav nitramsillav nitram
    IdleHans said:
    Perhap's
    I think you mean, praps. Curbism!
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