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24 Sep 05 - 05:50 AM (#1569708) Subject: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only From: John MacKenzie The Tartan Army Giok |
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24 Sep 05 - 06:04 AM (#1569714) Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only From: gnu Hehehe. |
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24 Sep 05 - 06:24 AM (#1569719) Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only From: akenaton "Scots can't do irony".....obviously |
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24 Sep 05 - 07:16 AM (#1569735) Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only From: John MacKenzie When you consider their previous record, and consider their chances in the future, surely the whole thing is an exercise in irony Ake? Giok |
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24 Sep 05 - 07:58 AM (#1569743) Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only From: Liz the Squeak The link didn't work, is that because I don't have a drop of Scotch in me? LTS |
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24 Sep 05 - 08:27 AM (#1569757) Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only From: John MacKenzie Try again G |
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24 Sep 05 - 09:55 AM (#1569780) Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only From: Alaska Mike 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 |
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24 Sep 05 - 10:03 AM (#1569782) Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only From: Raedwulf 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 |
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24 Sep 05 - 10:31 AM (#1569791) Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only From: Jim McLean I thought it was great, good fun, but I couldn't help thinking 'poor auld Jock' might be the tag line. |
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24 Sep 05 - 11:22 AM (#1569811) Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only From: katlaughing Can't wait for Alba/Jude to get back so she can see this. Hilarious!! |
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24 Sep 05 - 11:53 AM (#1569823) Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only From: Rapparee Why does their hair bounce up and down? Are their heads expanding and contracting, or do they all wear toupees? |
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24 Sep 05 - 12:24 PM (#1569843) Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only From: Metchosin Well, thank God.....it's sometimes really hard to remember all those words when you've had a few. |
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24 Sep 05 - 01:08 PM (#1569862) Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only From: John MacKenzie Probably kept the lyrics simple in case the odd trans-ponder looks in! ;~) Giok |
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24 Sep 05 - 01:32 PM (#1569875) Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only From: Megan L dammit giok |
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24 Sep 05 - 02:53 PM (#1569912) Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only From: GUEST,amergin lol, now I have that bloody tune stuck in my head.... |
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24 Sep 05 - 03:04 PM (#1569918) Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only From: Jack the Sailor I understand the rest of the national symbols, but why do they have lego blocks representing Denmark? |
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24 Sep 05 - 03:11 PM (#1569921) Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only From: John MacKenzie That's where it originated, the name being a corruption of Leg godt, which means play good. G |
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24 Sep 05 - 04:36 PM (#1569941) Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only From: Don Firth "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 |
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24 Sep 05 - 06:08 PM (#1569976) Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only From: Elmer Fudd Where are the sheep on this thread? |
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25 Sep 05 - 10:34 AM (#1570307) Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only From: JennyO *sings* Oh we like sheep.......... |
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25 Sep 05 - 10:57 AM (#1570313) Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only From: GUEST just wasted 3 minutes of my life! |
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25 Sep 05 - 11:21 AM (#1570329) Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only From: John MacKenzie 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 ¦¬] |
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25 Sep 05 - 11:42 AM (#1570333) Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only From: Metchosin 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 |
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25 Sep 05 - 11:51 AM (#1570338) Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only From: John MacKenzie 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 ¦¬] |
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25 Sep 05 - 11:53 AM (#1570339) Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only From: Metchosin Im' sure Hugh wouldn't mind if I did, Giock. |
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25 Sep 05 - 03:20 PM (#1570432) Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only From: Liz the Squeak 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 |
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25 Sep 05 - 04:04 PM (#1570442) Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only From: Diva A fair fine post Giok....loved it...but then again I am a veteran of argentina in '78 LOL |
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25 Sep 05 - 04:34 PM (#1570455) Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only From: Jack the Sailor For people like me who don't have a clue what the fuss is about. |
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25 Sep 05 - 08:15 PM (#1570546) Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only From: Rapparee 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? |
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26 Sep 05 - 04:27 AM (#1570692) Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only From: Wilfried Schaum And why aren't they wearing tartans? |
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26 Sep 05 - 04:48 AM (#1570707) Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only From: John MacKenzie Well Rap, just this once OK? and that's only on the basis of their having looted England ;~) G.. |
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26 Sep 05 - 06:40 AM (#1570741) Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only From: GUEST 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. |
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26 Sep 05 - 06:55 AM (#1570752) Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only From: Paco Rabanne Why are all those little dancing men wearing SKIRTS? |
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26 Sep 05 - 07:19 AM (#1570763) Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only From: John MacKenzie So that if they meet Flamenco Ted they can easily get at their maracas of course. G ¦¬] |
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26 Sep 05 - 11:26 AM (#1570897) Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only From: GUEST,leeneia 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. |
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26 Sep 05 - 08:33 PM (#1571143) Subject: RE: BS: For Scots and Scottish expats only From: Dead Horse 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!!! |