The Saltire Atop The Haggis...

[sandyRoe]

Isn't it good to see the AB staff acknowledging Scotland's Bard.

Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o the puddin'-race!
Aboon them a' ye tak your place,
Painch, tripe, or thairm:
Weel are ye worthy o' a grace
As lang's my arm.

And translated:

Fair and full is your honest, jolly face,
Great chieftain of the sausage race!
Above them all you take your place,
Stomach, tripe, or intestines:
Well are you worthy of a grace
As long as my arm.

[Mamyalynne]

Well I think it is cruel the way it has been slaughtered, quite undignified.



Maj - you are very bad!!

[-Talbot-]

It looks a bit like an elbow.

[Lie-in King]

Sorry Mamya - "Elbow of Scotland" any better?

Legs it...

[sandyRoe]

It looks more like a bald head with a paper flag on a pin stuck into it.

[MargoTester]

I'm with Lie-in king and wired. All the breast.

[Mamyalynne]

Underwired elbows,there's a thought.

[Slapshot]

That's not a grace it's an address..... anyway... you lot stop with the mild abuse of my literary hero..... ;0)

[douglas9401]

The reason it looks a bit lemon shaped is that the stomach has to be tied at both ends to ensure the lovely goodness of diced sheep's lungs and sundry other wholesome entrails, meal and exotic spices don't spill out all over the place.
That might put you foreigners off.
Never mind bush tucker trials, this is glen guts gorging. :-)

[cupid04]

I left a haggis on a train once. Never found out what happened to it...

[sandyRoe]

Deliberately Cupid?

[mallyh]

the haggis in lidls look like they shouldn't have been taken from their mummies yet lol

[cupid04]

sandyRoe...no, years ago bought one to bring back for my mother-in-law.
Had been in friddge at B&B....made it to the train...but never made it back to sunny souffend, lol!

[cupid04]

Think we paid more for it back then...than lidls are charging now ;-(

[DTCwordfan]

I thought that 'Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face' translated to

Fair and full is your gnomeish, ruddy face,
Great editor of the AB race!
Above us all you take your place,
Asquith, Alba, OG or Mazie's knees:
Well are they worthy of a brace
As long as a Mod's arm.

[sandyRoe]

Cupid, I think I remember that there was once a controlled explosion on a train after a suspicious parcel was noticed by a cleaner. Great play was made of the fact that the contents of the package was a haggis. It could have been the one you lost.

[sandyRoe]

DTCfan,
Hugh MacDairmud, the poet and tragedian William McGonnagill, and Burns himself, would be happy to welcome you into the pantheon of northern verse if you could show some Scottish lineage. ☺

[DTCwordfan]

Didn't you see this thread, Sandy, plenty of reshaped verse over there....
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1395165.html