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24 Jan 07 - 03:18 PM (#1946913) Subject: burns birthday From: guitar Thursday the 25th of Jan is the birthday of Robert Burns, I'll be going to a Burns supper. Tom |
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24 Jan 07 - 03:21 PM (#1946918) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: Peace The Irish guy, right? |
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24 Jan 07 - 03:45 PM (#1946945) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: Cluin Why every one wants to eat a burnt supper every Jan 25th is a mystery. But not as much a mystery as why they'd want to eat haggis... |
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24 Jan 07 - 05:22 PM (#1947039) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: Jim Lad Well, it's not really his birthday. He was out collecting famous birthdays and he borrowed it. Just tweaked the dates a little and put his own name to it you know. |
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24 Jan 07 - 07:07 PM (#1947151) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: terrier So it doesn't really matter that we're having our Burns party/session on Saturday night then. Och Aye!!!!! |
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24 Jan 07 - 07:21 PM (#1947165) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: Scrump I've got two Burns night gigs, one tonight (25th)and one tomorrow (26th). I'll be full of neeps and tatties and haggis by the weekend! |
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24 Jan 07 - 07:36 PM (#1947174) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: Bernard ...and I've got one on Saturday... b-u-u-u-rp! Jan 25th is Ewan MacColl's birthday... |
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24 Jan 07 - 07:47 PM (#1947185) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: bobad Ode Tae A Fart Oh what a sleekit horrible beastie Lurks in your belly efter the feastie Just as ye sit doon among yer kin There sterts to stir an enormous wind The neeps and tatties and mushy peas Stert workin like a gentle breeze But soon the puddin wi the sauncie face Will have ye blawin all ower the place Nae matter whit the hell ye dae A'body's gonnae hiv tae pay Even if ye try tae stifle It's like a bullet oot a rifle Hawd yer bum tight tae the chair Tae try and stop the leakin air Shifty yersel fae cheek tae cheek Prae tae God it doesnae reek But aw yer efforts go assunder Oot it comes like a clap o thunder Ricochets aroon the room Michty me a sonic boom God almighty it fairly reeks Hope I huvnae shit my breeks Tae the bog I better scurry Aw whit the hell it's no ma worry A'body roon aboot me chokin Wan or two are nearly bokin I'll feel better for a while Cannae help but raise a smile Wiz him! I shout with accusin glower Alas too late, he's just keeled ower Ye dirty bugger they shout and stare A dinnae feel welcome any mair Where e'ere ye go let yer wind gan' free Sounds like just the job fur me Whit a fuss at rabbie's party Ower the sake o one wee farty |
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24 Jan 07 - 08:06 PM (#1947200) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: Houston_Diamond I am a bit miffed by Waitrose selling a vegetarian Haggis?!? Can it truly be called a Haggis? I can't seem to find any Scotch Pies in NW London UK :( I really fancy one of them with baked beans. Oh well, I got me Haggis just gotta get some neeps, tatties & Drambuie. Anyway... I cant remember... is there a special blessing for the Haggis?... It's a long time since I went to a Burns night celebration!!! |
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24 Jan 07 - 08:17 PM (#1947205) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: Peace Scots English Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o' the pudding-race! Aboon them a' yet tak your place, Painch, tripe, or thairm: Weel are ye wordy o'a grace As lang's my arm. The groaning trencher there ye fill, Your hurdies like a distant hill, Your pin was help to mend a mill In time o'need, While thro' your pores the dews distil Like amber bead. His knife see rustic Labour dight, An' cut you up wi' ready sleight, Trenching your gushing entrails bright, Like ony ditch; And then, O what a glorious sight, Warm-reekin', rich! Then, horn for horn, they stretch an' strive: Deil tak the hindmost! on they drive, Till a' their weel-swall'd kytes belyve Are bent like drums; Then auld Guidman, maist like to rive, Bethankit! hums. Is there that owre his French ragout Or olio that wad staw a sow, Or fricassee wad make her spew Wi' perfect sconner, Looks down wi' sneering, scornfu' view On sic a dinner? Poor devil! see him owre his trash, As feckles as wither'd rash, His spindle shank, a guid whip-lash; His nieve a nit; Thro' blody flood or field to dash, O how unfit! But mark the Rustic, haggis-fed, The trembling earth resounds his tread. Clap in his walie nieve a blade, He'll mak it whissle; An' legs an' arms, an' hands will sned, Like taps o' trissle. Ye Pow'rs, wha mak mankind your care, And dish them out their bill o' fare, Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware That jaups in luggies; But, if ye wish her gratefu' prayer Gie her a haggis! |
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25 Jan 07 - 10:37 AM (#1947616) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: mack/misophist It looks like the last of that 18 year old Macalan's going down the tube tonight. |
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25 Jan 07 - 11:32 AM (#1947682) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: Scrump LOL, bobad :-) I am a bit miffed by Waitrose selling a vegetarian Haggis?!? Can it truly be called a Haggis? Well, it's obviously not a real haggis, but a replica made out of mashed veggie substances. Presumably it has the advantage that they don't have to pluck, gut and stuff it like they do with the real ones :-) |
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25 Jan 07 - 11:45 AM (#1947693) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: Wolfgang Let me add 1759, so we know how old he gets. Wolfgang |
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25 Jan 07 - 01:16 PM (#1947794) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: GUEST,saulgoldie I wish to heck there was some easier way to understand his poetry for the poetry-challenged. Last Burns Day I looked on a Burns site at some of it, and I couldn'g make hide nor hare of most of it. The "farty" one sort of makes sense. Perhaps it has to be lowbrow for me to get it. THAT is somewhat disconcerting. |
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25 Jan 07 - 01:58 PM (#1947828) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: Rasener They used to celebrate on his death date. Why did they change it. Folks all about wrist slitting, doom and gloom :-) Why is it celebrated so much in England ? Is it a good excuse for a piss up? |
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25 Jan 07 - 01:59 PM (#1947830) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: Schantieman Did you know that haggis can be right- or left- handed? It depends which way they run round the Munro: the legs grow unevenly so that they can stay upright on the steep slopes. For obvious reasons, once this process starts they can't turn round and run the other way. Amazingly, they were offering haggis & neeps (although they spelled it 'neaps'!) for our school dinner today! Even more amazingly, lots of the boys were eating it! Sadly no whisky though. Steve |
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25 Jan 07 - 02:20 PM (#1947844) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: Cluin You mean they ate it withOUT the bribe, Steve? |
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25 Jan 07 - 02:23 PM (#1947850) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: Alba " Why did they change it. Folks all about wrist slitting, doom and gloom :-)" ROFL Jude |
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25 Jan 07 - 03:00 PM (#1947896) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: Schantieman No bribe. It was just there and lots of them asked for it - AND ate it! The alternative hot main courses were roast chicken and pasta in some kind of tomatoey sauce. They probably thought it was burgers in bits or something (it wasn't still in its skin) Steve |
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25 Jan 07 - 03:09 PM (#1947909) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: Effsee Saulgoldie, is this so difficult? I muder hate, by field or flood, though Glory's name may screen us. At wars at home I'll spend my blood, Life giving wars of Venus, The Dieties that I adore are social Peace and Plenty, I'm better pleased to make one more, than be the death of twenty. i.e. Make love not war!! Sound familiar? |
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25 Jan 07 - 03:14 PM (#1947914) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: John MacKenzie Well sorry to change the subject, but I just ate my Haggis and Champit Neeps, and I'm now enjoying a dram of Clynelish 23 Year Old Cask Strength Malt. Happy Birthday Rabbie! Giok |
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25 Jan 07 - 05:35 PM (#1948018) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: Jim Lad I just saw a three legged haggis tied up, outside a trailer in shanty town. Looked like it hadn't been fed in weeks. Who do I call? |
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25 Jan 07 - 05:44 PM (#1948026) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: John MacKenzie The local hospital mate, ask for the Burns unit! Giok |
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25 Jan 07 - 06:46 PM (#1948071) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: Jim Lad Good answer Giok! I'll use that. |
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25 Jan 07 - 06:54 PM (#1948078) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: Cluin The joke. |
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25 Jan 07 - 07:03 PM (#1948088) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: Leadfingers That is one of my favourites Cluin , but I can never remember the Burns quotes to do it full justice ! |
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25 Jan 07 - 09:13 PM (#1948202) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: Effsee Grooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan! |
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25 Jan 07 - 09:25 PM (#1948205) Subject: Lyr Add: O MY LUVE IS LIKE A RED RED ROSE (Burns) From: Alba Kiddin aside. Happy Birthday Rabbie. O, my luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June: O, my luve’s like the melodie That’s sweetly played in tune.
As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
’Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
And fare thee weel, my only luve! Nice one Rab:) |
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25 Jan 07 - 09:32 PM (#1948208) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: Jim Lad And my false lover stole my rose But oh she left the thorn wi' me. |
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25 Jan 07 - 09:36 PM (#1948211) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: Alba Aye Jim there are two sides to every story..:) Jude |
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25 Jan 07 - 09:55 PM (#1948223) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: Rapparee Well, I suppose I'll have some of the stuff my friend Alice brought me from Kentucky. Barrowmore or something. Scottish as all hell. For dinner I had smoked Vermont ham, potatoes and onions, freshly made biscuits, butter. There IS haggis in the freezer. Last Fall I was out walking in the hills when I was attacked by a herd of haggii. Wild ones, all covered in hair and with teeth as long as my arm. Fortunately, I had my trusty rifle (never a trifle rusty) with me and I was able to pump 117 rounds of dum-dum ammunition into the Alpha Female and she dropped dead at my feet -- in fact, one of her fangs, drippinng poison, was in the leather of my boot sole (and it still is). With the death of their leader the others fled back to their lair, and I dressed out the one I'd shot (I ALWAYS eat what I shoot -- trees, rocks, cow pies, paper, whatever). She dressed out at an even 37 kilos and scored 457.8723 points in the Boone & Crockett Club -- only 102.86 points shy of an Idaho record! As I was driving home tonight under a full moon I hear the herd of haggii howling in the hills. Their mournful cries sounded for all the world like someone either strangling a pig or playing the piobrach. I think I'll go have a wee drap. |
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25 Jan 07 - 10:44 PM (#1948246) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: number 6 When chapmen billies leave the street, And drouthy neibors, neibors meet, As market days are wearing late, An' folk begin to tak the gate; While we sit bousing at the nappy, And getting fou and unco happy, We think na on the lang Scots miles, The mosses, waters, slaps, and styles, That lie between us and our hame, Where sits our sulky sullen dame. Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. This truth fand honest Tam o' Shanter, As he frae Ayr ae night did canter, (Auld Ayr, wham ne'er a town surpasses For honest men and bonie lasses.) First 2 verses of Burn's ... Tom O' Shanter biLL |
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25 Jan 07 - 11:17 PM (#1948268) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: Jim Lad My Uncle Donald collided with a haggis while driving up behind Ben Lawers. The two right feet came in through the windshield and knocked out both of his front teeth. The doctors said "Just a couple of inches higher and it would have scalped him". My Auntie Jessie gave chase with the dogs but they lost it in the bracken. She says there wasn't a mark on it but the Morris Minor's a right off. True Story. |
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26 Jan 07 - 02:59 AM (#1948343) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: Rasener And there was me thinking that haggis wasn't real. I always thought that haggis was the way the Scots spelt cigar (siggah) in reverse. I'll get me coat!!! |
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26 Jan 07 - 03:14 AM (#1948349) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: bubblyrat We used to get Haggis in the Navy----But,of course,it was only eaten on a Neap tide . |
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26 Jan 07 - 04:49 AM (#1948406) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: guitar Robert Burns was born in Scotland, he lived in the same county as me Ayrshire, and it is in SCOTLAND we celabrate it more than the English. Mind you they might have burns suppers do there as well. Mind you when you see a Scotsman with a kinfe in his hand stabbing a haggis, the English suddenly become Scots. Tom |
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26 Jan 07 - 04:55 AM (#1948412) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: guitar well some anyway, I just wonder why the English don't have a shakespeare day, supper to comerate his birthday, or the Welsh have a Dylan Thomas day, or the Irish have Semus Heney day. Tom |
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26 Jan 07 - 05:18 AM (#1948429) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: guitar Why don't they have days or nights where other countries comemeorate their natonal bard, I think that would be lovely Tom |
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26 Jan 07 - 05:23 AM (#1948433) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: Scrump Haggis, neeps and tatties went down well at our gig last night. And we got a free dram from the landlord, so we must have done OK. Another gig tonight - bring on the malt! :-D |
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26 Jan 07 - 06:32 AM (#1948466) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: guitar I was at aburns supper last night, the food was great the entertainment was great, the reason was it was free. The Marina Inn. Tom |
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26 Jan 07 - 08:47 AM (#1948575) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: JulieF The Waitrose haggis is mcsweeny and is by definition the best haggis in the world - be it meat ot vegi. When I stopped eating meat three years ago I thought it would be haggis that I would miss but these ones are really, really good. In Edinburgh you can get individual ones which you can freeze. Having my Burns night tonight. Bit worried as I very rarely cook for anyone other than myself and have 7 coming ( and some people coming to view the house two hours before that !) J |
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26 Jan 07 - 08:57 AM (#1948582) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: Scrump Hope it goes well Julie. As we've been out doing gigs last night and tonight, we're delaying our own Burns night celebrations. We're hoping to take advantage of the inevitable haggis surplus in the local supermarkets once Burns night is over. Lots of lovely haggis at half price - slurp! :-) |
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26 Jan 07 - 09:04 AM (#1948587) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: Alba Gid luck Julie. A few sips of the golden water before sitting down to a Haggis dinner always helps keep guests happy:) Jude |
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26 Jan 07 - 09:15 AM (#1948597) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: Jim Lad Best of luck with the house, Julie. Let us know how that goes. Dinner will be fine, I'm sure. (no cooking onions before the viewing) |
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26 Jan 07 - 06:15 PM (#1949138) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: JulieF Went pretty well - fairly mellow. Maybe next year will have gig for Burns night. Always seem to have gig for St Pats and not Burns night and am posibly the second best female scottish singer in Sheffield ( Only possibly mind you). That might just be the Isle of Jura talking ( on offer at Co-op) Thanks for all the good wishes J |
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26 Jan 07 - 08:09 PM (#1949245) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: patriot1314 well some anyway, I just wonder why the English don't have a shakespeare day, supper to comerate his birthday, or the Welsh have a Dylan Thomas day, or the Irish have Semus Heney day. Tom Difference between Burns and Shakespeare is that Burns wrote his own stuff! |
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26 Jan 07 - 09:36 PM (#1949299) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: Effsee Ah JulieF, Isle of Jura...Hamish Henderson's favourite tipple...you're in good company! Sliante! |
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27 Jan 07 - 06:35 AM (#1949459) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: Jim McLean I think he was the only poet to give his date of birth in a poem. Rantin, rovin' Robin Our monarch's hinmost year but ane, Was five and twenty days begun When a blast o' Janwar win' Blew hansel in on Robin. |
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27 Jan 07 - 07:33 AM (#1949496) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: GUEST,Bardan My friend tried to bring haggis over to italy a while back, but it was soaked in drambuie or something and they told him at the airport it was probably more than 100 mils or whatever. Not sure whether to be shocked by greedy customs or just chuckle at the idea of an exploding haggis. |
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27 Jan 07 - 09:42 AM (#1949574) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: GUEST,ib48 Happy birthday you haggis munching whisky drinking poet |
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27 Jan 07 - 11:29 AM (#1949654) Subject: RE: burns birthday From: An Buachaill Caol Dubh "Here's Freedom tae them that wad read; And Freedom tae them that wad write: There's nane ever feared That the Truth should be heard But them whom the Truth wad indite". Incidentally, amidst all the silly wee Sassenach snirtles anent Haggis (which is naethin mair nor the Scots wey o' sayin the French-like word, "hachis"), I wonder has onybody thocht wad they daur mak a joke anent anither "ethnic" dish; chapattis, say?
-Joe Offer- |