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SCOTS WAE HAE! A poem for Burns Night.

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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Thu 5 Feb, 2004 07:25 am
Since Devon is on the way to Cornwall ... (May be next year, though.)
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Clary
 
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Reply Thu 5 Feb, 2004 09:02 am
McTag wrote:
My first "mineral water" was a gin & tonic, though.


Shocked Ooh you crafty thing you.

Why, Walter, does it matter if Devon is on the way to Cornwall? Cornwall is just a Celtic excrescence, whose redeeming feature is the Eden Project; whereas Devon is paradise on earth.
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Thu 5 Feb, 2004 09:15 am
Clary wrote:

Why, Walter, does it matter if Devon is on the way to Cornwall? Cornwall is just a Celtic excrescence, whose redeeming feature is the Eden Project; whereas Devon is paradise on earth.


Tell such Mrs. Walter :wink:
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Clary
 
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Reply Thu 5 Feb, 2004 10:06 am
Well, I will if she comes online... meanwhile, why don't you tell her?
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Thu 5 Feb, 2004 10:15 am
Told her, but she still prefers Cornwall (perhaps I shouldn't have told her about the effects of rough cider?). :wink:
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McTag
 
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Reply Thu 5 Feb, 2004 03:39 pm
It's got something to do with the scenery shown on the TV dramatisations of Rosamund Pilcher stories, which are very popular on the Continong, tho' curiously not in Britain.

BTW Walter, I can confirm that Devon is fabby, and has many more boats than Cornwall.
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Thu 5 Feb, 2004 03:49 pm
McTag wrote:
It's got something to do with the scenery shown on the TV dramatisations of Rosamund Pilcher stories, which are very popular on the Continong, tho' curiously not in Britain.

BTW Walter, I can confirm that Devon is fabby, and has many more boats than Cornwall.
I know - have been to some nice places there (ages back, though) - even in Dartmoor on a foggy day :wink:
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McTag
 
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Reply Thu 5 Feb, 2004 04:02 pm
"A foggy day, up on the Moor,
We were young, I was poor
Couldn't see my hand
In front o' my face
Yet they say Devon's
A beautiful place....."

more of this anon, perhaps
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Piffka
 
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Reply Thu 5 Feb, 2004 04:04 pm
Clary wrote:
Good Heavens, it looks better with blue sky behind it, doesn't it McT?


Haha. A lot of things do!

Glad to know society is up & about... I would enjoy a ride down to Devon anytime.
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Thu 5 Feb, 2004 04:05 pm
[speaking of beautiful: Barbara was her name]
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Thu 11 Mar, 2004 08:19 am
Just came across this website:

Robert Burns Tribute - Burns Supper, Haggis, Poems, and more
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Clary
 
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Reply Thu 11 Mar, 2004 12:54 pm
ah, a blast from the past
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McTag
 
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Reply Thu 11 Mar, 2004 01:04 pm
Thou needna start awa sae hasty
In cookin up a Rabbie pastie
In March, guid sakes, oh whit a wastie
Jings, that wad be.
But Januar' brings the haggis tasty
To such as we.
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Thu 11 Mar, 2004 01:08 pm
He was a bold man who first ate a Haggis!
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McTag
 
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Reply Thu 11 Mar, 2004 01:16 pm
Walter, pay no attention to Burns' poor command of of English.
That should be "...to such as us", of course.
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