BS: What did the Scots ever do for us?

Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us?
From: Rasener
Date: 28 Feb 10 - 03:33 PM

Midges. Newver drop yur trousers in the middle of a forest up there.

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Gordon Brown
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Well you can have that twat back today.

They allowed us to nick their best beef and oil :-)

Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us?
From: gnu
Date: 28 Feb 10 - 03:56 PM

Yeah, Dave... yer just gelatinous... yeeccchhh!

Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us?
From: Rowan
Date: 28 Feb 10 - 04:12 PM

I believe it was a Scot who invented the chronometer. Up until his time they had no idea about longitude.

The latter statement is not quite true. John gave the good oil on Harrison's invention of the chronometer but it was "only" a more accurate method of measuring time. Until then, the most accurate measurement of time, available at sea, required rather abstruse astronomical calculations; they were used to calculate longitude, about which they had very good ideas but inadequate technology.

Penicillin. Sir Alexander Fleming.

Also only partly true. Fleming's 1929 paper identified penicillin as antibiotic in vitro but he was unable to extract it. It was four years of work (from 1939 on) by Florey's team (including Chain and Heatley) that got it to the stage where it could be used.

Fleming, Florey and Chain got the Nobel, while Heatley (who invented the deep fermentation process used to produce it in bulk) got Oxford's first Honorary Doctorate in Medicine. "Without Fleming there'd be no Chain, without Chain there'd be no Florey, without Florey there'd be no Heatley and without Heatley there'd be no penicillin."

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us?
From: Tangledwood
Date: 28 Feb 10 - 04:37 PM

They gave us deep fried Mars Bars and battered and fried pizzas.

Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us?
From: kendall
Date: 28 Feb 10 - 04:38 PM

Wrong again. I love mudcat; for one thing, I enjoy learning and that happens every day here. Thanks for the correction; don't know how I came to that conclusion. In any case, he probably had Scottish friends!

Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 28 Feb 10 - 05:10 PM

All the best people have Cap'n

Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us?
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 28 Feb 10 - 08:11 PM

We invented ice-hockey. First recorded game was on the Forth, 1607.

Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us?
From: Ed T
Date: 28 Feb 10 - 08:17 PM

"We invented ice-hockey. First recorded game was on the Forth, 1607"


and, to clean off the ice in that the first 1607 hockey game, they used a Zamboni, pulled by a sheep.

Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us?
From: Ed T
Date: 28 Feb 10 - 08:21 PM

Well, to be truthful, the first Zamboni was named after a scotsman.
It was called MacHinery.

Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us?
From: akenaton
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 04:29 AM

Curling......at the edges.

Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us?
From: GUEST,Bill the Collie
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 05:01 AM

Ye Krankies



But, sadly, not Ye Chuckle Bros

Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us?
From: Davetnova
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 05:10 AM

One that always intrigues me is that English was the official language of the Scottish court a hundred years before it became the official language of England.

Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us?
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 05:52 AM

To distinguish it from Irish. The earliest known Scottish languages were British and the Pictish languages.

Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us?
From: Stu
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 07:05 AM

Fish, the brilliant singer/songerwriter not the wet flappy things wot live in the sea.

The Isle of Lewis chessmen.

The Orkney Islands.

The Scottish Whelks sold in my local fishmongers.

Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 07:56 AM

Pontius Pilate
The Alexander Brothers

Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us?
From: A Wandering Minstrel
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 08:11 AM

The excellent produce of the 12 men o' Tain

Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us?
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 08:14 AM

I'll drink to that - slainte mhor!

Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 08:21 AM

Tennent's Lager Lovelies

Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us?
From: Gurney
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 09:25 PM

Pontius Pilate, Jack? Who does he fly for?

Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us?
From: Bert
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 10:41 PM

Lewis chessmen Great one Sugarfoot.

On a personal note there was this Boilermaker named Dick Ferrie who taught me an awful lot about my trade.

Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us?
From: Ed T
Date: 01 Mar 10 - 10:44 PM

Invented finnan haddie.

Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 02 Mar 10 - 04:39 AM

Caboc
Arbroath Smokies
Plain loaf
Aberdeen Butteries
Jethart Snails
Hawick Balls
Berwick Cockles
McCowans Toffee
Irn Bru
Ayrshire Bacon
Edinburgh Rock
Munros
Corbetts
Lanark Blue
Belhaven Export
Caol Isla
Hamish Henderson
Dolly Varden

Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us?
From: Abdul The Bul Bul
Date: 02 Mar 10 - 09:55 AM

I thought for a mo I was gonna get to the end without ANYONE MENTIONING WHISKY! Blimey, it was my first thought and they can keep all the rest.
Wheres me bottle?
Al

Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 02 Mar 10 - 12:22 PM

Lorne Sausage

Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us?
From: GUEST,Doc John
Date: 03 Mar 10 - 12:21 PM

Isla StClair
Haggis
Maxwell's equations
Midges
The Broons
Oor Willie
Dandy and Beano
Red Hair
John Smith (we got Bliar instead)
Christine Kidd
Rory & Alex McEwan
Jimmy Miller's new name
Iron Brew

Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us?
From: robomatic
Date: 03 Mar 10 - 05:38 PM

I thought the Scots gave us breakfast


The most important meal of the day.

Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us?
From: robomatic
Date: 03 Mar 10 - 05:46 PM

Not to mention John Napier, Baron of Merchiston, who first propounded the discovery of 'logarithms', which has great significance to our forum here, for who amongst us has not had great need to 'log-a-rhythm' now and then?

Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Mar 10 - 06:02 PM

The Scots beat hell out of the invading English on a few occasions. I think that deserves some measure of gratitude from the world at large. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us?
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 03 Mar 10 - 06:25 PM

They did stay north of the border.......until Blair and Brown that is....

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us?
From: Rasener
Date: 03 Mar 10 - 06:27 PM

Send em back. They have bankrupted England.

That will teach us for stealing their oil.

Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us?
From: Allen in Oz
Date: 03 Mar 10 - 06:50 PM

I could be wrong ( I was once ) but I have heard that Pontius Pilate was born in Scotland...his father was a soldier at Hadrian's Wall apparently.

Any confirmation of this rumour ?

AD

Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us?
From: gnu
Date: 03 Mar 10 - 07:15 PM

Yup... he was in the squadron of fallen archers and snuck over the wall an him an his Daddy made off an got ta go on ta make proper boots fer tha Roamens sos they could walk leagueons on their conquests.

Subject: RE: BS: What did the Scots ever do for us?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 03 Mar 10 - 07:31 PM

Hadrian's Wall wasn't built till much later, and Fortingall is far north of it. A quick google will tell you the story.

Let's hear it for Scotland's contribution to visual art: the Holyrood royal portrait gallery and the Singing Butler.