Happy Mr Burns Night to all our kilt-wearing NSCers

[Lady Whistledown]

May you enjoy your spuds & sheep guts immensely

This goes out to Gordon Greer of course, as well as the somewhat less Scottish Scots like CMS.

Oh, and Happy Cantona Day to any Palace fans reading. 17 years on, still feels like it was yesterday

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Looking forward to the special haggis pie at the Amex on Saturday

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

To skirt twirlers everywhere, have a great night.

 

[Trufflehound]

Had my haggis last Saturday. Even as a thoroughbred southern softie with no known Jock heritage, I always enjoy the chance to don a tartan skirt.

And yes, the breeze does feel good.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Had my haggis last Saturday. Even as a thoroughbred southern softie with no known Jock heritage, I always enjoy the chance to don a tartan skirt.

And yes, the breeze does feel good.

Let the wind blow high
Let the wind blow low
Through the streets in ma kilt I'll go
All the lassies will shout "Hellooo!
"Donald where's yer troosers!"

 

[Seagull kimchi]

My Scottish wife will be giving me Chinese burns tonight as it's the Chinese New Year and the anniversary of my wedding proposal.

No haggis here - Just Swedish vodka and hummus.

 

[Pavilionaire]

My wife is Scottish and we will be enjoing the haggis, neeps, tatties and a wee dram. There's even a chance ''Braveheart" might get an airing...

 

[Easy 10]

Mr Burns night ?

Do we all have to abuse Barnes then ?

 

[Brovion]

Having our Burns Night tomorrow as my daughter's out teaching tonight.

Scots Wha Hae!

 

[Vegas Seagull]

May you enjoy your spuds & sheep guts immensely

This goes out to Gordon Greer of course, as well as the somewhat less Scottish Scots like CMS.

Oh, and Happy Cantona Day to any Palace fans reading. 17 years on, still feels like it was yesterday

CMS is English

 

[On the Left Wing]

Am fed-up reading loads of Rabbie Burns nonsense before cutting open the haggis ... so tonight I have chosen this Monty Python verse instead before we gorge ourselves on haggis, neeps and stovies:
Much to his Mum and Dad's dismay
Horace ate himself one day.
He didn't stop to say his grace,
He just sat down and ate his face.
"We can't have this his Dad declared,
"If that lad's ate, he should be shared."
But even as he spoke they saw
Horace eating more and more:
First his legs and then his thighs,
His arms, his nose, his hair, his eyes...
"Stop him someone!" Mother cried
"Those eyeballs would be better fried!"
But all too late, for they were gone,
And he had started on his dong...
"Oh! foolish child!" the father mourns
"You could have deep-fried that with prawns,
Some parsley and some tartar sauce..."
But H. was on his second course:
His liver and his lights and lung,
His ears, his neck, his chin, his tongue;
"To think I raised him from the cot
And now he's going to scoff the lot!"
His Mother cried: "What shall we do?
What's left won't even make a stew..."
And as she wept, her son was seen
To eat his head, his heart, his spleen.
And there he lay: a boy no more,
Just a stomach, on the floor...
None the less, since it was his
They ate it – that's what haggis is.

 

[little al]

Haggis for me tonight.

Though I'm not a Jock, I just live here.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

How better to celebrate this special day than by quoting a few lines from the bard's seminal work 'To Dan Harding'...

Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a panic's in thy breastie!

 

[Randsta]

"Excellent"....Wrong Mr Burns?

 

[perseus]

tim'rous beastie

How better to celebrate this special day than by quoting a few lines from the bard's seminal work 'To Dan Harding'...

Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a panic's in thy breastie!

That's a bickering brattle of a mouse

 

[SeagullSongs]

Haggis for me tonight too!

 

[Durlston]

From Phoenix Nights.

Jerry the Berry: "I've got rubber burns from being pushed around all day."

Brian Potter: "Rubber burns? Weren't he a Scottish poet?"

 

[ferring seagull]

Across the entire world, Robert Burns is one of the most loved poets ever and please don't just listen to the sort of rubbish many times quoted. His poetry is humanitarian and looks at absolutely everything as he saw it and, look at it to see the relevance to just about everything.

The 'Burns Supper' fare of Haggis, Bashed Neeps and Chappit Tatties was that of the ordinary or poor people and is commemorated thus in a 'Burns Supper'

If anyone ever has the opportunity of attending a really good Burns Supper either in Scotland or in Caledonian Clubs etc., which will involve the poetry, the food (and drink) then please take the opportunity as you will not be disappointed as this will involve truly annimated reciters/singers in appropriate dress with possibly dimmed lighting. Not to be missed if you have the opportunity !

PS !, if you ever see a book of the works of Robert Burns in a car boot sale for 10 or 50 pence do treat yourself.

 

[jakarta]

Across the entire world, Robert Burns is one of the most loved poets ever and please don't just listen to the sort of rubbish many times quoted. His poetry is humanitarian and looks at absolutely everything as he saw it and, look at it to see the relevance to just about everything.

The 'Burns Supper' fare of Haggis, Bashed Neeps and Chappit Tatties was that of the ordinary or poor people and is commemorated thus in a 'Burns Supper'

If anyone ever has the opportunity of attending a really good Burns Supper either in Scotland or in Caledonian Clubs etc., which will involve the poetry, the food (and drink) then please take the opportunity as you will not be disappointed as this will involve truly annimated reciters/singers in appropriate dress with possibly dimmed lighting. Not to be missed if you have the opportunity !

PS !, if you ever see a book of the works of Robert Burns in a car boot sale for 10 or 50 pence do treat yourself.

Having had to live & work up there on and off since 1991 I personally have had enough of Scots & Scotland. I really hope we English can have an Independence Vote, sever all ties and kick their MPs north of the Border.

Alex Salmond can then have his little McCountry and try and survive without our taxes subsidising him & his pals.....

 

[ferring seagull]

Having had to live & work up there on and off since 1991 I personally have had enough of Scots & Scotland. I really hope we English can have an Independence Vote, sever all ties and kick their MPs north of the Border.

Alex Salmond can then have his little McCountry and try and survive without our taxes subsidising him & his pals.....

Politically and as someone who just happened to be born in Scotland, I am afraid that I cannot in any way disagree with you.

However, the original thread was about a Scottish poet of around 300 years ago so perhaps you could re-read the post which contained nothing nationalistic as indeed the works of Burns equally did not.