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SCOTS WAE HAE! A poem for Burns Night.

 
 
Clary
 
Reply Tue 27 Jan, 2004 05:06 am
Where Burns takes on a whole new significance...
TAE A FERT

Oh what a sleekit horrible beastie

That lurks in yer 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'bodys gonnae have 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

Shify yersel fae cheek tae cheek

Prae tae God it doesnae reek



But aw yer efforts go assunder

Oot it comes like a clap a thunder

Ricochets aroon the room

Mighty me a sonic boom!



God almighty it fairly reeks

Hope I huvnae **** ma 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 rise a smile

Wis 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're ye go let ye wind gan free

Sounds like just the place fur me

Whit a fuss at Rabbie's perty

Ower the sake o' one wee ferty.


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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Tue 27 Jan, 2004 05:44 am
Thanks for that Clary. I have requested a translation.
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Clary
 
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Reply Tue 27 Jan, 2004 05:45 am
I wouldna know, bein' a mere Sassenach mysel'
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Tue 27 Jan, 2004 06:24 am
There might be a few sweatties around who could help.
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McTag
 
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Reply Tue 27 Jan, 2004 11:17 am
This is dreadful! As dreadful as an air-biscuit in a lift (elevator).

Thank you Steve, for drawing it to my attention. I will contact the thought-police immediately.
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Clary
 
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Reply Tue 27 Jan, 2004 01:31 pm
D'ye ken a wee pub in yon Sandbach yet, McT?
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Tue 27 Jan, 2004 01:47 pm
Here' a link tae tha BBC Scootlund website wi' a selection ay poems an' ballads composed by Robert Burns. (These poems represent tha bard's best-loved works an' the ones most commonly recited oan Burns nicht.)

LINK
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Wed 28 Jan, 2004 03:54 am
Burns was a Jacobite rebel. A free thinker, revolutionary, champion of the common man and a freemason. So was he good or bad?
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Clary
 
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Reply Thu 29 Jan, 2004 02:58 am
Like most of us, Steve, a bit of both...
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McTag
 
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Reply Thu 29 Jan, 2004 02:49 pm
Clary spilled some of the beans, which are:
she and I are going to have the inaugural Sandbach A2K meet in a Sandbach pub next week.
Haha!! Looking forward to it. Mine's a pint, Clazza!

(We may have to start a new Sandbach thread!)
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Clary
 
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Reply Thu 29 Jan, 2004 02:54 pm
pint of ... Old Peculiar, Old Speckled Hen, Old Fart??
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Thu 29 Jan, 2004 03:12 pm
I'm sure, McTag will like all instead of his usual Robinsons :wink:
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Thu 29 Jan, 2004 06:33 pm
Surely it has to be( considering original post) Old Fert?
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Clary
 
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Reply Fri 30 Jan, 2004 04:12 am
Sure it does - made by ?
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McTag
 
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Reply Fri 30 Jan, 2004 07:01 am
There's no fert like an old fert.
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McTag
 
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Reply Wed 4 Feb, 2004 03:16 pm
Okay, the inaugural Sandbach meet was held today by Clary 'n' me. A very well-behaved affair; she had the steak pie, and I the steak and chips, in a very nice old timber-framed thatched inn called the Black Bear.
No noticeable drunken abandon, since we both had to drive...but we want to have a London meet before too long!
Walter, is your computer working all right now?
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Wed 4 Feb, 2004 04:18 pm
Yes, works fine again.
(I've only ter re-install sum Monkey's cousin program, try ter get Hammer and Tack me favourites, ...) :wink:





Nice pub, btw
http://www.coldmoss.co.uk/assets/images/al8a.jpg
from 1634, and Dick Turpin stayed there on more than one occasion as well Laughing
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Clary
 
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Reply Thu 5 Feb, 2004 03:25 am
Good Heavens, it looks better with blue sky behind it, doesn't it McT? Yes, the Scottish gent wouldn't touch anything stronger than mineral water, and the pub was largely empty so it was not exactly a wild lunch. Good to make contact with the man behind the iron mask though!

Up for a meet in early summer. Would like you all to come to Devon but I suppose it isn't convenient for most.
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Mr Stillwater
 
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Reply Thu 5 Feb, 2004 03:57 am
Walter, I think Dick Turpin ROBBED the establishment on more than a few occasions!
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McTag
 
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Reply Thu 5 Feb, 2004 06:41 am
My first "mineral water" was a gin & tonic, though.

Wild living, or what?

Devon sounds divine, but it is a little hard to get to.
Worth the effort, of course. Lets work on that.
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