I notice on a current thread somebody asked "When is Burn's Night?" But can anybody tell me what it is? I know Burns was a scotch poet, but I'm sure that this is just a recently "made up" thing, probably because the scotch have no equivelant of out St Patrick's day! and the pub landlords love an excuse for a celebration. Why not Keats night, Shakespear afternoon, Kipling weekend, C.S. Lewis day!
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