Subject: BS: Happy Burns Night From: John MacKenzie Date: 25 Jan 03 - 10:22 AM I wish all Mudcatters a good Burns night. I myself am looking forward to my neeps, tatties, and large dram, all accompanying the steaming beastie. Failte.....Giok |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: gnu Date: 25 Jan 03 - 10:25 AM I shall raise a glass in honour, but no beasties. Have a good one. |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: Rapparee Date: 25 Jan 03 - 10:34 AM I shall raise a glass in honour, but no haggis. |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: gnu Date: 25 Jan 03 - 10:37 AM Is that not the steaming beastie ? |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: Dave the Gnome Date: 25 Jan 03 - 11:54 AM Well, Asdas' Burns night promotion had gone so well they had run out of Haggis when we got there! I spotted an good substitue though - We shall be having neeps, tatties and Aberdeen Angus sausages! As tae the large dram, well what can I say but - Let other poets raise a fracas 'Bout vines, an' wines, an drunken Bacchus An crabbet names an stories wrack us, An' grate our lug: I sing the juice Scotch here can mak us, In a glass or jug Laing may ye lumb reek... Dave the McGnome |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: GUEST,Murray on Saltspring Date: 25 Jan 03 - 05:42 PM Visiting in Los Angeles, they've asked me to address the haggis, a great honour! Followed up by some Scottish Country Dancing. I expect to have a great time. - the whole saying BTW is "Lang may yer lum reek - wi ither folk's coal! Slainte M |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: GUEST,meg Date: 25 Jan 03 - 06:28 PM bunch of us will be raising our glasses on Sunday night and tucking into a vegetarian haggis (take lungs and stomach of one vegetarian....) |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: Cluin Date: 28 Jan 03 - 02:12 AM It is that time of year to join together and celebrate the life and times of Robert Burns by raising a few toasts, singing a few songs, reading a few poems and eating questionable sustenance. One can only wonder why this following treasure of Rabbie's was lost for so long and now found. Here it is, please read aloud and enjoy! Tae a Fert Oh what a sleekit, horrible beastie Lerks in yer stomach efter a feastie. Just as ye sit doon among yer kin, There sterts tae stir an enormous wind. The neeps an' tatties an' mushy peas Start workin' like a gentle breeze. But soon the puddin' wi' the sonsie face Will huv ye blawin' a' ower the place. Nae matter whit the hell ye dae A'body's gonnae huv tae pay. Even if ye try tae stifle, It's like a bullet oot a rifle. Haud yer bum tight tae the chair Tae try an' stop the leakin' air. Shift yersel' fae cheek to cheek An' pray tae God it disnae reek. But a' yer efforts gae assunder Oot it comes like a clap o' thunder. It ricochets aroon' the room Michty me! A sonic boom! God a'mighty, it fairly reeks (Ah hope ah huvnae shat ma breeks!) Straight tae the bog ah better scurry Aw whit the hell, it's no' ma worry. A'body roon' aboot me's chokin', Wan or two are nearly bokin'. Ah'll feel much better fur a while, Ah cannae help but raise a smile. "Wis him!!" ah shout, wi accusin' glower. Alas, too late. He's just keeled ower. "Ye derty bugger!" they shout and stare. Och, ah dinnae feel welcome ony mair. Where e'er ye be, let yer wind gang free (sounds jist the job fur thee and me) Whit a fuss at Rabbie's perty A' ower the sake o' wan wee ferty. |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: Kim C Date: 28 Jan 03 - 10:06 AM We had a lovely Burns Night - it was the first one I had ever hosted. As I couldn't get a genuine sheep haggis here in the US, I bought a beef-based haggis from a place in Louisiana. It was quite tasty, actually! We had neeps and tatties and a few drams, and fried chicken for the unadventurous. My friend Howard, who is sort of a shyish person, shone like a diamond as he read Burns' Address to a Haggis. And after supper, we had us a little hoedown. Great, great fun. |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: SINSULL Date: 28 Jan 03 - 05:55 PM Kim, There is a butcher shop in Kearney, NJ that carries haggis and pasties and all things Scottish. They ship too, I think. If I can get a name I will PM you. M. |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: BusbitterfraeScotland Date: 28 Jan 03 - 08:45 PM I am in Australia just now and I just missed Burns night in Scotland, however I'll be back HAHA!! Tam |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: Strupag Date: 29 Jan 03 - 04:49 PM Never mind Busbitter, ye've just missed Up Hellia to and now today is the Chinese new year. There's aye something tae celibrate. How about WagaWaga Day! |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: Mr Red Date: 29 Jan 03 - 05:29 PM a good day to mention not to over cook the haggis - it would produce third degree Burns ........ I'll get my kilt....... |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: Beccy Date: 26 Feb 03 - 02:31 PM I know it's late for this, but I just got it today and it's HILARIOUS! Enjoy! Beccy Tony Blair is visiting an Edinburgh hospital. He enters a ward full of patients with no obvious sign of injury or illness and greets one. The patient replies: "Fair fa your honest sonsie face, Great chieftain o' the puddin race, Aboon them a you take your place, Painch, tripe or thairm, As langs my airm." Blair is confused, so he just grins and moves on to the next patient. The patient responds: "Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it, But we hae meat and we can eat, So let the Lord be thankit." Even more confused, and his grin now rictus-like, the PM moves on to the next patient, who immediately begins to chant: "We sleekit, cowerin, timrous beasty, Thou needna start awa sae hastie, Wi bickering brattle." Now seriously troubled, Blair turns to the accompanying doctor and asks "What kind of facility is this? A mental ward?" "No", replies the doctor. "This is the serious Burns unit." |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: Kim C Date: 26 Feb 03 - 03:49 PM Ha!!!!!!!!!!!! |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: Murray MacLeod Date: 26 Feb 03 - 05:44 PM The reason Tony got so confused was because the first patient omitted the line: "Weel art thou worthy o' a grace", prior to the line "As lang's my airm" Murray |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: Cluin Date: 27 Feb 03 - 01:53 AM The third patient missed a line in "To a Mouse" too. "O what a panic's in thy breastie!" between "...beastie" and "Thou..." |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: Beccy Date: 27 Feb 03 - 11:47 AM Yeesh, ya'll. I know that! It's still funny!!!!! ;-) |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: Cluin Date: 27 Feb 03 - 02:28 PM Yep. |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: GUEST Date: 24 Jan 14 - 06:38 PM |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: gnu Date: 24 Jan 14 - 06:55 PM Coincidence? Haggis, whiskey and Burns? I think not. |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: Van Date: 24 Jan 14 - 07:15 PM It will be whisky |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: GUEST,Allan Conn Date: 25 Jan 14 - 04:15 AM We had our wine club Burns' Night on Tuesday which was a great evening. I was the only singer/musician and did John Anderson, Scots Wha Hae and Killiecrankie. Seemed to go down well but it was the end of the evening and everyone was well on by then. Got the Kelso Folk Club one tonight. Doing "Scots Wha Hae" with my friend on viola (no other instruments) then three of us are doing a comedy routine to "Wille Brewed A Peck O' Maut" then at the end of the evening I'm leading an ensemble on "Ye Jacobites By Name" and "Killiecrankie". Lots of other performers too. And last night we had a great wee mostly Burns and traddie session. All three evenings in the Cobbles Inn in Kelso. Awarded the accolade of best pub in Scotland and Northern Ireland this year by Camra. Sometimes life's just great :-) |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: Will Fly Date: 25 Jan 14 - 04:26 AM There's a Burns Night dinner in my local pub this evening - but not for me, as I'll be serenading the diners on guitar along with two fiddlers. We've a nice selection of Scots airs to accompany the munching and sipping. |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: eddie1 Date: 25 Jan 14 - 04:37 AM Then let us pray, that come it may As come it will for a' that That strength and worth o'er a' the earth Shall bear the gree for a' that. For a' that an' a' that, It's coming yet for a' that That man tae man the world o'er Shall brothers be for a' that! Happy Birthday Rabbie! Eddie |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: GUEST Date: 25 Jan 14 - 04:59 AM Can you get vegetarian haggis? |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: gnu Date: 25 Jan 14 - 07:36 AM Stuffed? Where? |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: Tattie Bogle Date: 25 Jan 14 - 07:56 AM Yes, vegetarian haggis is made by MacSween's who make a lot of the usual version too: just Google it. Have already been at one Burns Night where the haggis arrived from the chippie as the battered, deep-fried version with chips. The "Address to a Cardboard Box" was hilarious! Check that title on YouTube. Non-Burns songs were allowed so I did "Both Sides the Tweed" which does refer to "The Parcel o Rogues". Tonight I'm playing for a Burns Ceilidh, i.e. haggis, etc followed by dancing: Monday, doing a selection of Burns tunes and songs for a day care group, then Tuesday night, it's the local folk club supper, where a friend and I are doing a duo arrangement of Duncan Gray. |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: ChanteyLass Date: 25 Jan 14 - 04:20 PM Happy Burns Night to all, and to all a good night! |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: FreddyHeadey Date: 25 Jan 16 - 08:06 AM Thanks, TB's link... Roddy Macdonald - "Address Tae a Cardboard Box" 22.1.2014 |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: Rapparee Date: 25 Jan 16 - 10:44 AM We shall always remember The twenty-fifth of January... Nope, not quite the same. Not exactly a Scots holiday. How about February 10? June 24? February 27? October 23? April 16 (no, probably not). September 21? June 1? February 23 (unless you're from Glencoe)? |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: ClaireBear Date: 25 Jan 16 - 01:14 PM At a Burns Night party I was once privileged to attend, Robin Williamson (just post-Incredible String Band, in his Robin & His Merry Band days) recited "Ode to a Haggis" in his broadest Scots, whilst local actor Dave McCort supplied simultaneous translation in BBC English. It was and remains the funniest thing I had ever heard, bar none. |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: EBarnacle Date: 25 Jan 16 - 03:00 PM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fESxlF-ujO4 Go for it. Off to the haggis in Kearney |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: gnu Date: 25 Jan 16 - 04:47 PM An Englishman is being shown around a Scottish hospital. At the end of his visit, he is shown into a ward with a number of patients who show no obvious signs of injury. He goes to examine the first man he sees, and the man proclaims: Fair fa' yer honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain e' the puddin' race! Aboon them a' ye tak your place, painch tripe or thairm: Weel are ye wordy o' a grace as lang's my arm. The Englishman, somewhat taken aback, goes to the next patient, and immediately the patient launches into: Some hae meat, and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it, But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit. This continues with the next patient: Wee sleekit cow'rin tim'rous beastie, O what a panic's in thy breastie! Thou need na start awa sae hasty, wi' bickering brattle. I wad be laith to run and chase thee, wi' murdering prattle!" "Well," the Englishman mutters to his Scottish colleague, "I see you saved the psychiatric ward for the last." "Nay, nay," the Scottish doctor corrected him, "this is the Serious Burns unit." |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: Tattie Bogle Date: 25 Jan 16 - 05:52 PM Well, braw tae see that John Mackenzie started this thread a' they years ahint, and he also put same guid wishes on Facebook the day! Guid ay o' Serious and not=so serious Burns, with 3 gigs the day, and twa mair the marra. Ye canna beat haggis wi' Irn Bru in a primary school: great dancing, and haggis piped in by recorder band! |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: keberoxu Date: 22 Jan 22 - 03:05 PM I know! I know! it's several days early but it will be here before you know it! |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: Nigel Parsons Date: 22 Jan 22 - 03:15 PM There seem to be various translations above!: Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim’rous beastie, O, what a panic’s in thy breastie! Thou need na start awa sae hasty, Wi’ bickering brattle! I wad be laith to rin an’ chase thee, Wi’ murdering pattle! I’m truly sorry Man’s dominion Has broken Nature’s social union, An’ justifies that ill opinion Which makes thee startle At me, thy poor, earth-born companion An’ fellow-mortal! I doubt na, whyles, but thou may thieve; What then? poor beastie, thou maun live! A daimen-icker in a thrave ‘S a sma’ requet; I’ll get a blessin wi’ the lave, An’ never miss’t! Thy wee-bit housie, too, in ruin! Its silly wa’s the win’s are strewin! An’ naething, now, to big a new ane, O’ foggage green! An’ bleak December’s win’s ensuing, Baith snell an’ keen! Thou saw the fields laid bare an’ waste, An’ weary Winter comin fast, An’ cozie here, beneath the blast, Thou thought to dwell, Till crash! the cruel coulter past Out thro’ thy cell. That wee bit heap o’ leaves and stibble, Has cost thee monie a weary nibble! Now thou’s turned out, for a’ thy trouble, But house or hald, To thole the Winter’s sleety dribble, An’ cranreuch cauld! But Mousie, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight may be vain: The best-laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men Gang aft agley, An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, For promis’d joy! Still thou are blest, compared wi’ me! The present only toucheth thee: But Och! I backward cast my e’e, On prospects drear! An’ forward, tho’ I cannot see, I guess an’ fear! |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: David C. Carter Date: 23 Jan 22 - 04:18 AM Hi John,Just taking this moment to wish you "Happy Burns Night".I guess you will be doing the usual "Ritual"in style! I used to go to a pub called"The Auld Alliance",in St Paul,but a Frenchman bought the place,and for me it's lost it. Oh well.Hope all is well your end of the world John. Take care. David |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: Charmion Date: 23 Jan 22 - 11:53 AM Burns Night for me will be a slug of Highland Park and an early bed. Not much else on offer in this part of locked-down Ontario, where Scots are thin on the ground and, besides, it’s f***ing cold. |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: Tattie Bogle Date: 23 Jan 22 - 06:05 PM Most of the live Burns celebrations that I was aware of around here have been either cancelled or postponed, but no shortage of online events. Last night and this afternoon there was a combined event hosted by Howth Singing Circle, near Dublin, Edinburgh Folk Club and singing club The World’s Room. And there were other online events last night with Siobhan Miller, and Dougie Maclean. This evening, I have just finished on a Zoom Burns Supper hosted by Lynn Noel in Boston, Mass. Fortunately they chose to have it at 2-5pm EST, so that we, on this side of the pond, didn’t have to stay up half the night! Now just need something for Tuesday evening! And one club has postponed their live event until July - to coincide with Burns’ date of death! |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: keberoxu Date: 24 Jan 22 - 02:33 PM Boston? good on 'em. |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: keberoxu Date: 25 Jan 22 - 01:44 PM Tonight's the night! |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: leeneia Date: 25 Jan 22 - 03:16 PM There was a noticeable number of Burns numbers at the Mudcat Singaround yesterday. If somebody had said something the previous week, I would have done some Burns too. Hector did a particularly beautiful song that I had never heard before. |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: keberoxu Date: 26 Jan 22 - 08:23 PM Until next January! |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: Tattie Bogle Date: 27 Jan 22 - 04:29 AM Not necessarily! A large number of Burns events had to be cancelled or postponed no thanks to Omicron. Our own folk club has deferred until April, and see my comment above about July. |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: keberoxu Date: 24 Jan 23 - 06:30 PM We have all made it to another Burns Night for another year. |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: Charmion Date: 25 Jan 23 - 09:20 PM And again I’m having a small tot and hitting the hay. It’s snowing heavily and only a fool would be on the road tonight for anything short of a major emergency. |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: Dave the Gnome Date: 28 Jan 23 - 05:48 AM Of course as Burns night fell during Chinese New year celebrations, it became Chinese Burns Night :-) |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: keberoxu Date: 28 Jan 23 - 09:19 AM . . . to say nothing of the Year of the Rabbit . . . |
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Burns Night From: Senoufou Date: 29 Jan 23 - 02:10 AM I studied Robert Burns poetry at Edinburgh University as a part of the English(!) Literature lectures. He seemed to write in a Lallans dialect with so many apostrophes, trying to reproduce the accent phonetically. Luckily, I've always had an ear for languages, and spoke 'Scots' the whole time I was 'up there' (I taught later in Edinburgh and Glasgow schools). So many Burns Nights! I absolutely loved 'em. I would end the evening suffering from First Degree Burns! |