happy burns' night

[joggerjayne]

... to all of you up in the frozen North.

Burns' Night ...

Dodgy poetry ... terrible food ... but fantastic Balls.


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[MarkRae]

Co-lathe breith sona dhuibh, a Mhaighstir Burns!

Excellent poetry, even better food.

[carrust]

Nowt wrong with the food...I love haggis. The poetry might as well be in Swahili for me...Don't understand a 'king word of it:-)

[joggerjayne]

carrust ...

He invents words to make rhymes ... like "curple" and "breastie"

We could all write poetry if we were allowed to make up words !

(markrae will disagree with this analysis)

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[carrust]

Is markrae a ginger haired, deep fried pie eating transvestite? :-)

[ummmm]

I was in Robbie Burns house (museum) Attached to a pub...haha

My Dad's mate took me to Scotland (probably wouldn't be allowed now) I was about 15 at the time. He had no kids and treated me and my sister as if we were his own. He wanted me to meet his mother.......OMG...the food was gross....yuk yuk yuk puke

[MarkRae]

> The poetry might as well be in Swahili for me...Don't understand a 'king word of it:-)

What a stupid comment! Which 'king word of the following do you not understand?

O Mary, at thy window be!
It is the wish'd the trysted hour.
Those smiles and glances let me see,
That makes the miser's treasure poor.


> He invents words to make rhymes ... like "curple" and "breastie"

http://wiki.answers.c...vented_by_Shakespeare


> We could all write poetry if we were allowed to make up words!

Go on, then...


> (markrae will disagree with this analysis)

I wonder why...?

[Prescott]

The trouble with the English is that because they can't speak a language they think those who do are a bunch of idiots. I can assure joggerjayne that burns never invented a single word - they are all actual dialect.

[carrust]

Over yonder look and see.

A fish supper for you and me.

Go int to the chippy, & if he can.

Put a pizza, straight into the pan......

How's that???

[joggerjayne]

carrust ...

I'm not sure about the "transvestite" suggestion (!)

My BF came over (as you know) for the Burns' Night Ball on Saturday.

I hired full highland dress for him, and bought him a kilt. He looked fab.

(and yes ... I insisted that he was TOTALLY authentic, LOL !)

[joggerjayne]

Prescott ... I know ... I'm just being flippant.

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[mccfluff]

happy burns night

[McMouse]

Barrack Obama is visiting a Glasgow hospital

He enters a ward full of patients with no obvious sign of injury or illness,

He greets one.
The patient replies:

Fair fa your honest sonsie face,
Great chieftain o the puddin race,
Aboon them a ye take yer place,
Painch, tripe or thairm,
As langs my airm.

Obama is confused, so he just grins and moves on to the next patient.

The next patient responds:

Some hae meat an canna eat,
And some wad eat that want it,
But we hae meat an we can eat,
So let the Lord be thankit..

Even more confused and his grin now rictus-like, the President moves on to the next patient, who immediately begins to chant:

Wee sleekit, cowerin, timorous beasty,
O the panic in thy breasty,
Thou needna start awa sae hastie,
Wi bickering brattle

Now extremely troubled, Obama turns to the companying doctor and asks,
'Is this a psychiatric ward?'

'No,' replies the doctor, 'this is the serious Burns unit.'