Google ads are back to the tinned haggis and a book called Whitman's Self Explained: On Mysticism in American Literature.

And speaking of haggis... From THIS PAGE:

Gordon Sinclair, owner of Gordon's Fine Meats, once again honours Scotland's national bard, Robbie Burns, with his annual haggis toss across the mighty Bow River.

Sinclair always improves upon the mechanism used to hurl the haggis across the river. Sinclair says customers of his built this years machine, a trebuchet, which is a catapult-type device used to hurl heavy missles like rocks, or in this case, a haggis.

...apparently they've never managed to get the haggis completely across the river.

Yes, that's right folks! Used a trebuchet to fling a haggis across a river! Coincidence that we were talking about using trebuchets to toss salads on the "Salad Shooter" thread? Coincidence that this thread seems to be enamored of root vegetables? Coincidence that when sheep eat mangelwurzels they give birth to old tires? I think not! There's something going on here. Some power greater than ourselves is trying to send us a message. I can almost make it out! The part I can almost make out says "B-e-d--ya is - f--k-n' d-mb--s." I don't quite understand. Wonder what the message really says? Anyone have a magic decoder ring with ya?