The godlike geniuses Douglas Adams and John Lloyd invented a thing called ‘The Meaning of Liff’“In Life, there are many hundreds of common experiences, feelings, situations and even objects which we all know and recognize, but for which no words exist. On the other hand, the world is littererd with thousands of spare words which spend their time doing nothing but loafing about on signposts pointing at places. Our job, as wee see it, is to get these words down off the signposts and into the mouths of babes and sucklings and so on, where they can start earning their keep in everyday conversation and make a more positive contribution to society.”
But, Birmingham isn’t well featured and that’s a shame as Brum seems to have more places per square mile than any other city. Why, just stepping outside the house I can bestride Moseley, King’s Heath and Billesley like a collosus of roads. So we needed a meaning of “Briff”, and luckily in this crowd soursing twitterific day and age it took only a day of people’s continuous partial attention to compile a Kingstanding of a list:
