Here's tae you, Rabbie!
Poet, drunkard, womaniser and deid afore ye were forty - a true national hero for Scotland.
So let the tatties be mashed, get the neeps chappit, the haggis in the pot an' break oot the whisky and the shorrties fer after.
And for anynoe who thinks Burns is all red roses and wee sleekit beasties, here's ane we didnae cover in school!
The Toadeater
No more of your titled acquaintances boast,
Nor of the gay groups you have seen:
A crab louse is but a crab louse at last,
Tho stack to the c**t of a Queen.
Happy Birthday Tae The Bard!
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This is very interesting for us Belgians, especially when you are so kind to provide us with something resembling a linky to the man/woman/sheep in question
IZ.
IZ.
Izzy HaveMercy wrote:This is very interesting for us Belgians, especially when you are so kind to provide us with something resembling a linky to the man/woman/sheep in question
IZ.
Just for you, Iz:
http://www.rabbie-burns.com/
Why choose Burns as "Scotland's Bard"? He was utterly awful! What's wrong with Byron, he fills all the same criteria and actually wrote some beautiful poetry, and people outside of Scotland actually like him!=P
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Aye! I'm off this very evening to celebrate in the proper fashion. Although our tame piper won't be in attendance , the lady in charge of the whisky has exquisite taste - should make up for it to some extentErudite wrote:Here's tae you, Rabbie!
And for those who would contest his status as National Bard: The point is that he wrote both for and about Scotland, which Byron most certainly never did...
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My mum got an M&S haggis for dinner tonight
I only tasted haggis for the first time less than two years ago, how did I manage to miss out on such an exsquisite pleasure for the first 23 years of my life
I only tasted haggis for the first time less than two years ago, how did I manage to miss out on such an exsquisite pleasure for the first 23 years of my life
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When there was a bunch of Scots in the management team where I work, we hired a private room at the Belgian Beer Cafe in the town for Burns night each year.
The Scots would "smuggle" copious quantities of haggis into the country & we taught the restaurant staff how to cook them & bashed neeps & tatties.
They also did the best cocka leekie soup I have ever tasted.
Wasn't too keen on the cranachan though, but then it has got quite a bit of cream in it, so I wouldn't be.
The Scots would "smuggle" copious quantities of haggis into the country & we taught the restaurant staff how to cook them & bashed neeps & tatties.
They also did the best cocka leekie soup I have ever tasted.
Wasn't too keen on the cranachan though, but then it has got quite a bit of cream in it, so I wouldn't be.
& I haven't even stabbed anyone yet.boudicca wrote:You've already earned your Honorary Scot stripes
That's only necessary if ye wants tae be a Weegie.Pista wrote:& I haven't even stabbed anyone yet.boudicca wrote:You've already earned your Honorary Scot stripes
Us east coast types are much mair civilised.
Apart fae the Fifers.
Unfortunately, I can't remember, having turned vegetarian back in '91.boudicca wrote:I only tasted haggis for the first time less than two years ago, how did I manage to miss out on such an exsquisite pleasure for the first 23 years of my life
The vege haggis tends to taste like a spicy meally pudden.
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Oi!Erudite wrote:That's only necessary if ye wants tae be a Weegie.Pista wrote:& I haven't even stabbed anyone yet.boudicca wrote:You've already earned your Honorary Scot stripes
Us east coast types are much mair civilised.
Apart fae the Fifers.
I'm trying to cut down on eating meat, so no haggis for me (two of my flatmates will be, though), so I'm having a veg stew, some whiskey (only got American s**t, 'm afraid) and Burns-ing some herbs later along to a soundtrack of Hawkwind.
boudicca wrote:My mum got an M&S haggis for dinner tonight
I only tasted haggis for the first time less than two years ago, how did I manage to miss out on such an exsquisite pleasure for the first 23 years of my life
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I had a "wee dram" last night.
Not that I actually knew it was Burns night...
Not that I actually knew it was Burns night...
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