Subject: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: GUEST,Mikey joe Date: 21 Nov 02 - 10:31 AM As an Irishman living in Scotland and in the spirit of the current rip of what did the ??? do for us I'd like to twist the topic towards the Scots. And may I be the first to venture .... William Topaz MacGonagall Mj Search for "done for us" threadsWhich won't turn up this one... |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: GUEST,MC Fat Date: 21 Nov 02 - 10:34 AM The Krankies (part of the Master Plan) and of course moi !! |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: Murray MacLeod Date: 21 Nov 02 - 10:37 AM Et moi aussi ... Murray |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: GUEST Date: 21 Nov 02 - 10:49 AM Silly Wizard and Annie Lennox. |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: GUEST Date: 21 Nov 02 - 10:53 AM My wife Ellen Pirie |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: GUEST Date: 21 Nov 02 - 10:55 AM oh, and Ewan MacColl, Hamish Henderson and HUGE MacDarmiad and the funniest man in the world and Dennis Law and Sir Matt |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: Dead Horse Date: 21 Nov 02 - 10:56 AM I am one-eigth Scots, so you can add my left leg. Love William Topaz MacGonagall! Logie Baird The tartan Several sea shanties (notably Heiland Laddie) The skirl of the pipes Whisky Mel MacGibson MacDonalds The excuse to dis-associate myself from the English, whenever I feel like it. |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: Declan Date: 21 Nov 02 - 11:00 AM Robert Burns Michael Marra Deaf Shepherd Mailinky Alasdair Fraser John McCosker The Boys of the Lough (or at least some of them) Shetland Fiddle playing The Old Blind Dogs Tony Mc Manus The Battlefield Band Dick Gaughan Davy Steele Brian Mc Neill Shooglenifty Tony McManus Mike Scott The Tannahill Weavers Hamish Henderson Ewan McColl ??? Kirsty Mc Coll Billy Connolly James Connolly The Proclaimers Irving Welsh Sir Robert Scott Deuchars IPA Lagavullan (and all the rest) Belhaven Best Cally 80/- The Edinbugh Festival & Fringe to mention but a few. |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: GUEST,mc noddy Date: 21 Nov 02 - 11:02 AM television ,penicillon, roads, waterproofs, anesthetic, education, ship building, bridges, trains, steam power, for starters. |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: GUEST Date: 21 Nov 02 - 11:09 AM andy stewart moira anderson bay city rollers the white heather club j..... logan the one o'clock gang |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: GUEST,noddy Date: 21 Nov 02 - 11:14 AM dougie maclean jim hunter capercallie stairheid gossip the corries |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: GUEST,hamish Date: 21 Nov 02 - 11:40 AM We will do anything for anyone as long as they pay us. |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: GUEST,noddy Date: 21 Nov 02 - 11:41 AM copper wire... invented by two Aberdonians argueing over a penny? |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: MMario Date: 21 Nov 02 - 11:43 AM scotch eggs, haggis |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: Allan Dennehy Date: 21 Nov 02 - 11:48 AM Billy Conally |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: Kim C Date: 21 Nov 02 - 11:51 AM I second what MMario said! |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: GUEST,noddy Date: 21 Nov 02 - 11:58 AM Runrig golf, football, why is it better to live on Islay than Arran? Arran has 9 golf courses and one distillery, Islay has 9 distilleries and one golf course. |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: Scabby Douglas Date: 21 Nov 02 - 12:26 PM Things we (the Scots) NEVER gave you: (mix of good and bad in here) Sydney Devine Tattie scones Plain bread Square sausage Lobey Dosser Rikki Fulton Black bun Johnnie Beattie Angus Og midges cheers Steven |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: Dave Wynn Date: 21 Nov 02 - 12:31 PM Ewan McCOll was born James (Jimmy) Miller and was not born in Scotland ipso facto then Kirsty (R.I.P. and a much better singer than her dad) was not Scots either. I think Spot. |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: kendall Date: 21 Nov 02 - 12:39 PM The chronometer, Rubber tires The rain coat, Sean Connery Donald McKay, designer of the clipper ship. Andrew Cairnage |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: kendall Date: 21 Nov 02 - 12:41 PM and, some of the nicest folks I ever met, Archie Fisher, Cilla Fisher, Robin Watson, Gordon Menzies |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: Big Tim Date: 21 Nov 02 - 12:42 PM Wasn't it the English, or the Chinese, who gave us football? I'll settle for my missus, Jan. |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: Greyeyes Date: 21 Nov 02 - 12:48 PM Seven-a-side rugby & my Aunty Sheelagh & Uncle Jimmy. |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 21 Nov 02 - 12:49 PM Alex Campbell |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: GUEST Date: 21 Nov 02 - 12:55 PM trainspotting |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: Jim McLean Date: 21 Nov 02 - 01:06 PM William McGonagall had Irish parents but was born in Scotland and, as the man said, being born in a stable doesn't make you a horse. Jim McLean |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: GUEST Date: 21 Nov 02 - 01:20 PM They settled in Pa and started Edinboro University in 1857, as a ways to educate their children to become teachers. The university is still here today and is educating a good 7,000 students. Including Me!! :) Go Boro!-Fighting Scots!-and their marching band-Edinboro University-"Spirit of the Scots"- -C.Fisher |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: GUEST,Charmion at work Date: 21 Nov 02 - 02:44 PM They emigrated to Canada, and made it the delightful place it is today, where every public occasion includes bagpipes, all parents want their children to go to university, and every adult knows he or she should have a retirement savings plan although all spare money (like there is such a thing) is spent on whisky and holidays. |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: Schantieman Date: 21 Nov 02 - 02:49 PM Anyone who'd ever played it wouldn't think seven-a-side Rugby is a good idea. Not unless they were fit, anyway (gasp) Steve |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: Rapparee Date: 21 Nov 02 - 03:04 PM Like the rest of the Celts, Inspiration (not to mention Talisker, Glenorangie, Glenlivet, Glenfiddich and the rest). And some good friends. |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: GUEST,MairSea Date: 21 Nov 02 - 04:00 PM Me!!! Lots o' love. |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: kendall Date: 21 Nov 02 - 04:33 PM Speyside Scotch |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: John MacKenzie Date: 21 Nov 02 - 04:42 PM Charles Rennie MacIntosh. Hamish Henderson Hamish Imlach Robert Burns Then there are the others that are but we wish they weren't. Tony Blair Gordon Brown Most trade union leaders in the 60s & 70s David Coulthard At least you can't blame us for Hurricane Higgins George Best I'll get my coat........Giok |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: GUEST,C Date: 21 Nov 02 - 04:54 PM Strathspeys, and Scottish Country Dancing. The most beautiful way to move on the planet... |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: van lingle Date: 21 Nov 02 - 04:55 PM 2 handed flyrods |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: GUEST,Taliesn Date: 21 Nov 02 - 05:37 PM Shame on the Scots posting here for failing to mention those merry old economists Malthus and Adam Smith. Lest we forget one whom migrated to our shores and ,for better and worse ,put these economists' principles to work whether he knew it or not.....Andrew Carnegie; the first Man of Steel. |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: Bert Date: 21 Nov 02 - 05:58 PM Well Dead Horse, We'll have to explain who Logie baird was. It is not generally know in the USA that Logie Baird made the first working Television. And Kendall, I don't want to be nitpicking (Or maybe I do) But It was the Pneumatic Tyre that Lord Dunlop invented. I don't know who invented the solid rubber tyre. And don't forget Harry Lauder. |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: Murray MacLeod Date: 21 Nov 02 - 06:10 PM Bert, Dunlop did >b And as far as I know he was never ennobled. But I agree, let's not forget Harry Lauder ! Murray |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: Murray MacLeod Date: 21 Nov 02 - 06:12 PM Bert, Dunlop did not> invent the pneumatic tire. He "rediscovered" it. And as far as I know he was never ennobled. But I agree, let's not forget Harry Lauder ! Murray |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: GUEST,ozmacca Date: 21 Nov 02 - 09:29 PM Did naebody mention bannocks, or crowthie, or clootie dumplings, or Irn Bru? And I'm trying my best to forget Harry whatsisface. I know I'll never forgive him for encouraging the rest of the world to think that we're all miserly skinflints in threadbare pic-nic rugs grasping at saxpences that go bang in the nicht..... We (and I use the term loosely here) are kind-hearted, generous to a fault (if that were posible) and dispensers of open-handed hospitality - all of it reasonably priced. |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: kendall Date: 21 Nov 02 - 09:34 PM You are right Bert. Harvey Firestone discovered vulcanization. |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: GUEST,Tom Hamilton frae Scotland on Holiday in Aus Date: 22 Nov 02 - 12:32 AM The Scots gave us, The Corries, The MacCalmans, my family and friends, the wee group that I sing with 'Rumplefyke' which means itchy arse and other tihngs to many to mention |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: Chris Amos Date: 22 Nov 02 - 01:37 AM No one has mentioned that glue like stuff they make from oats yet, thank god. C |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: weerover Date: 22 Nov 02 - 01:37 AM Robert Burns, The McCallan 25-year-old anniversary single malt (aahh...) |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: alanabit Date: 22 Nov 02 - 03:06 AM My friend the busker Miller Davidson and the incredible myth that Scots are mean. However did that fairy tale ever last a day? |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: GUEST Date: 22 Nov 02 - 04:10 AM James Watt the father of steam power. |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: Scabby Douglas Date: 22 Nov 02 - 04:15 AM alanabit - it lasted and was promulgated by Scots like Harry Lauder and Will Fyffe.... and as Oscar Wilde nearly said, there's only one thing worse than having a demenaing national stereotype... that's having no national stereotype at all... Cheers Steven |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: Boab Date: 22 Nov 02 - 04:19 AM Encyclopaedia Brittanica! "Scotty" of the Enterprise--[och, well, er---] The first true bicycle [never patented, but it still exists--] ---an heck wi' you Chris Amos----parritch!!! |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: Red and White Rabbit Date: 22 Nov 02 - 04:30 AM the hearing aid and men in kilts!! |
Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us??? From: RangerSteve Date: 22 Nov 02 - 05:56 AM They gave me some of my ancestors. |