BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only

Subject: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Sep 05 - 05:50 AM

The Tartan Army
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only
From: gnu
Date: 24 Sep 05 - 06:04 AM

Hehehe.

Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only
From: akenaton
Date: 24 Sep 05 - 06:24 AM

"Scots can't do irony".....obviously

Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Sep 05 - 07:16 AM

When you consider their previous record, and consider their chances in the future, surely the whole thing is an exercise in irony Ake?
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 24 Sep 05 - 07:58 AM

The link didn't work, is that because I don't have a drop of Scotch in me?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Sep 05 - 08:27 AM

Try again
G

Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only
From: Alaska Mike
Date: 24 Sep 05 - 09:55 AM

I like it!! Made me want to put on my kilt and drink some whiskey. But I know I'll have the damn tune in my head now all day. Thanks Giok.

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only
From: Raedwulf
Date: 24 Sep 05 - 10:03 AM

I've heard worse tunes (a tad repetitive, perhaps) & the singer's got a decent voice. The video is moderately crap, but then so's the football team! Now, all those gingers, all those Scots... Where did I put me longbow... ;-)

Ta, Giok, I had a good chuckle (mind you, I do that at the football team, but Hearts have just beaten Rangers, so maybe there's hope for the SPL after all!).

R

Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only
From: Jim McLean
Date: 24 Sep 05 - 10:31 AM

I thought it was great, good fun, but I couldn't help thinking 'poor auld Jock' might be the tag line.

Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Sep 05 - 11:22 AM

Can't wait for Alba/Jude to get back so she can see this. Hilarious!!

Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Sep 05 - 11:53 AM

Why does their hair bounce up and down? Are their heads expanding and contracting, or do they all wear toupees?

Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only
From: Metchosin
Date: 24 Sep 05 - 12:24 PM

Well, thank God.....it's sometimes really hard to remember all those words when you've had a few.

Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Sep 05 - 01:08 PM

Probably kept the lyrics simple in case the odd trans-ponder looks in! ;~)
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only
From: Megan L
Date: 24 Sep 05 - 01:32 PM

dammit giok

Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only
From: GUEST,amergin
Date: 24 Sep 05 - 02:53 PM

lol, now I have that bloody tune stuck in my head....

Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 24 Sep 05 - 03:04 PM

I understand the rest of the national symbols, but why do they have lego blocks representing Denmark?

Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Sep 05 - 03:11 PM

That's where it originated, the name being a corruption of Leg godt, which means play good.
G

Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only
From: Don Firth
Date: 24 Sep 05 - 04:36 PM

"Scottish expats only." My great-grandfather came came across the pond in 1851 from Orkney (worked for the Hudson's Bay Company) and settled in the San Juan Islands, where my grandfather and father were born. Does that count?

Yeah, the song is definitely an "ear worm!"

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only
From: Elmer Fudd
Date: 24 Sep 05 - 06:08 PM

Where are the sheep on this thread?

Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only
From: JennyO
Date: 25 Sep 05 - 10:34 AM

*sings* Oh we like sheep..........

Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Sep 05 - 10:57 AM

just wasted 3 minutes of my life!

Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Sep 05 - 11:21 AM

Goodness me what a disaster, you could have posted an anonymous and pointless remark on the Mudcat in that 3 minutes. Let that be a lesson to you, time management is today's buzz word.
G ¦¬]

Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only
From: Metchosin
Date: 25 Sep 05 - 11:42 AM

Giok, still smartinging over events at Tarbolton after all these years, are we? I might understand if Burns himself agreed, but auld Jock Grieve would probably roll in his grave over that shot. Some rule regarding time limits for expats is there?

Here's to fair Dodhead and Boghead!
Susan Grieve

Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Sep 05 - 11:51 AM

No time limit Susan, after all if our Irish descended friends can still celebrate their ethnicity 150 years or so on, surely we Scots can do likewise wherever the sands of time have drifted us. Particularly if you bear a guid Scots surname like Grieve, don't go changing it to McDairmid or anything will you?
Giok ¦¬]

Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only
From: Metchosin
Date: 25 Sep 05 - 11:53 AM

Im' sure Hugh wouldn't mind if I did, Giock.

Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 25 Sep 05 - 03:20 PM

OK, so I still haven't a drop of scotch in me... I suspect I shall need more than a drop to make any sense of that.... what was it with the hair?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only
From: Diva
Date: 25 Sep 05 - 04:04 PM

A fair fine post Giok....loved it...but then again I am a veteran of argentina in '78 LOL

Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 25 Sep 05 - 04:34 PM

For people like me who don't have a clue what the fuss is about.

Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Sep 05 - 08:15 PM

My folks left Scotland (and Ireland, for that matter) some years back. They brought with them various mementos, such as women and whatever wasn't tied down and had some value, and only left behind pillaged villages, burned monasteries and churches, a few dead bodies, and perhaps the odd bairn or two.

Being equal opportunity types, they also looted in England and Wales.

Do I count?

Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 26 Sep 05 - 04:27 AM

And why aren't they wearing tartans?

Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 Sep 05 - 04:48 AM

Well Rap, just this once OK? and that's only on the basis of their having looted England ;~)
G..

Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Sep 05 - 06:40 AM

you can get rid of ear worms by listening to appropriate "counter melodies"

In this case the counter to the Tartan Army Theme Song is the South Park Theme Song. But don't listent to it overmuch or it could get ugly.

Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 26 Sep 05 - 06:55 AM

Why are all those little dancing men wearing SKIRTS?

Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 Sep 05 - 07:19 AM

So that if they meet Flamenco Ted they can easily get at their maracas of course.
G ¦¬]

Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 26 Sep 05 - 11:26 AM

Thanks, Giok. That was fun.

I was intrigued by the pronunciation of "down." More like "dahn" than the way I say it. Here in the U.S., we get that "dahn" pronunciation in Michigan and in Pennsylvania, among other places.

No doubt someone, somewhere, has produced a Ph.D thesis on this.

Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only
From: Dead Horse
Date: 26 Sep 05 - 08:33 PM

The pronunciation of "dahn" was introduced by the McCockerknees from the lowlands (lowlands low) (they had to be born within the sounds of Gorbells)so as to differentiate between "doon" which also means a small expanse of sand. Not wanting to do with anything "expansive" (you know the Scots and their wallets!) they preferred "dahn", OK?
Dead Horse McAnderson, wots got his own tartan, AND can recognosize it at more than 50 paces, so there!
AND I've just had several large glasses of McJDs (Jock Daniels to you)
And if any body tries to pat me, they better be female or willing to fight!!!