Enjoy your haggis today.

The bard is celebrated all over the world. Deservedly so.

Neeps & Tatties,along with Haggis....the most disgusting combination of food known to man....I'll celebrate with a dram and give the food?..a miss.

Just about to set off to Morrisons to get my haggis, I already have spuds and swede. By chance (ahem) I already have some peaty Islay malt in stock too.
Ive only one, way back, Scottish ancestor (Dumfries) but I like that wonderful mix of sheep offal/oats and spices (not to mention the root veg & whisky). Probably akin to sacrilege but but I like mushy peas with my Burns Night treat too.

Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o' the pudding-race!
Aboon them a' ye 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 wad 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 feckless as wither'd rash,
His spindle shank, a guid whip-lash;
His nieve a nit;
Thro' bloody 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' heads will sned,
Like taps o' thrissle.

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!

Never got the hype his songs are all a bit slow

http://www.robertburns.org/works/75.shtml

Nice one Bosscat, reads like something Pstotto could have written.

Bigvince wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 25, 2021 11:23 am

Nice one Bosscat, reads like something Pstotto could have written.

Nowt to do with my writing m8 its the bard (int copy and paste a wonderful thing )

Bosscat wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 25, 2021 11:25 am

Nowt to do with my writing m8 its the bard (int copy and paste a wonderful thing )

Yes boss I’m aware it’s one of Robbie’s

My ❤ is a ■■⚘

Just a poor man’s Shakespeare. Not to mention, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth and all.

An expert on the subject said on Radio 4 this morning that the earliest written recipe for haggis was written in Lancashire.

claretonthecoast1882 wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 25, 2021 10:40 am

Never got the hype his songs are all a bit slow

not when they're sung in the Cricket Field Stand...

Burns night a bit quieter this year, happy burns night anyway to our Scottish friends.....Not heard from Millertime V1.7 in a while, hope you & Morag are well.

LeadBelly wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 25, 2021 10:32 am

Ive only one, way back, Scottish ancestor (Dumfries).

From a Burns perspective, Dumfries is gold star.

International class wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 25, 2021 12:27 pm

Just a poor man’s Shakespeare. Not to mention, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth and all.

Then you really don't understand....

I got one of these but never managed to catch one of the creatures yet....

Always used to go to a Burn's Night charity do in the Good Night Club in Nelson. (When it was open.) All sorts of goodies to bid for. Me and my ex bid for and won tickets for a recording of 'A question of Sport' when it was recorded at the Oxford Street studios.

Always enjoyed the Haggis etc. as well.

IanMcL wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 25, 2021 3:08 pm

From a Burns perspective, Dumfries is gold star.

Yes, that's his local area too, I'd forgotten that. One of my great, great grandmothers. Born Dunfries in 1798 (died in Briercliffe 94 years later) so not quite a contemporary of the Bard as he snuffed it in 1796. .

Haggis, tatties and neeps at our house tonight

Top Claret wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 25, 2021 4:54 pm

Haggis, tatties and neeps at our house tonight

The same for us and a wee dram.

Happy birthday to the womanising old chap!

Ian - or any other wee laddie - a genuine question.
The bloke I worked for on the building sites and his family left Scotland for Burton on Trent about forty years ago when he'd be six or seven.
His normal, everyday accent is not exactly Burtonian, not that that accent is strong anyway,but Billy's is pretty uniformly "English".
Funny thing is, as soon as he speaks with or to his dad, he reverts, naturally, to the most Scottish accent you can imagine and it's real, he's not putting it on. Then, if he's talking to somebodyelse, he'll revert to his normal speech.
When the three of us go fishing, it's like having another person in the car.
As a cunning linguist, I'm quite interested in this phenomenon but my question is - is this quite common ?

Had my fill of sheep offal now, very nice too with a peaty malt.

Philistines all of you.

A win at Anfield; progress in the FA Cup. Surely never a better time for Bene 'n hot

box_of_frogs wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 25, 2021 5:50 pm

Happy birthday to the womanising old chap!

Yes by all accounts he was a bit of a lad in his day.

tiger76 wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 25, 2021 10:32 pm

Yes by all accounts he was a bit of a lad in his day.

Rampant Robbie


https://www.list.co.uk/article/15459-ro ... nt-robbie/

evensteadiereddie wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 25, 2021 5:50 pm

Ian - or any other wee laddie - a genuine question.
The bloke I worked for on the building sites and his family left Scotland for Burton on Trent about forty years ago when he'd be six or seven.
His normal, everyday accent is not exactly Burtonian, not that that accent is strong anyway,but Billy's is pretty uniformly "English".
Funny thing is, as soon as he speaks with or to his dad, he reverts, naturally, to the most Scottish accent you can imagine and it's real, he's not putting it on. Then, if he's talking to somebodyelse, he'll revert to his normal speech.
When the three of us go fishing, it's like having another person in the car.
As a cunning linguist, I'm quite interested in this phenomenon but my question is - is this quite common ?

It does seem to be. Lulu is a perfect example.
John Barrowman another.
Martin Comston
David Tennant
Alan Cumming

They all can do other English or US speech easily and speak to the audience thus but ho straight to Scottish accent when referencing or speaking to a Scot.

I never realised my dad had a Scottish accent, growing up. My sister was older and her boyfriends used to say, "What's your dad saying?" I thought they were barmy.
Then one day, he rang me at work. U was about 18. Iain will ye tale ya mutha I'll be hoome late?" Broad accent. He worked with an Aberdonian Alec. I thought why is Alec ringing me about this?

"Iain - Did you hear me?" Barked out in a split second. Then I knew he gad a real Scottish accent! "Yes dad"

Well I had Haggis for lunch but then thought I had better eat the chicken for tea, before it is too late. So I had haggis and chicken!

Whisky gravy can make you nice and warm inside!

I love Burns. Have to look up lots of old Scots words but the subjects he captures in words and phrases are supreme.
Many things we say today are Burns lines in his poems and songs.

His words can raise your spirit or bring you to tears.

No one else has their own day!
Just leant that in Japan, the Zebra crossing sound for ok to cross is 'Comin' thro the rye' How neat is that!

He has more statues in USA than anyone else and more than in Scotland!

Marney&Mee wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 25, 2021 2:56 pm

not when they're sung in the Cricket Field Stand...

Good point, Burns might have enjoyed his tunes more with a line or 2 in his head.

evensteadiereddie wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 25, 2021 5:50 pm

Ian - or any other wee laddie - a genuine question.
The bloke I worked for on the building sites and his family left Scotland for Burton on Trent about forty years ago when he'd be six or seven.
His normal, everyday accent is not exactly Burtonian, not that that accent is strong anyway,but Billy's is pretty uniformly "English".
Funny thing is, as soon as he speaks with or to his dad, he reverts, naturally, to the most Scottish accent you can imagine and it's real, he's not putting it on. Then, if he's talking to somebodyelse, he'll revert to his normal speech.
When the three of us go fishing, it's like having another person in the car.
As a cunning linguist, I'm quite interested in this phenomenon but my question is - is this quite common ?

Thanks, Ian, those more er, illustrious examples had completely escaped me.
Very interesting.

evensteadiereddie wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 26, 2021 8:35 am

Thanks, Ian, those more er, illustrious examples had completely escaped me.
Very interesting.

Funnily enough Evensteadier, in his late 80's and early nineties, my wife and I took my dad back to his roots and general holidays in Scotland, for several 'last visits'.

Whenever he got chatting to the local folk, the speed of his chatter increased considerably!