Meet John Smeaton: One Kick and He Is The Hero of Glasgow [Kicked Terrorist Butt]

Wall Street Journal Online ^ | 07/07/07 | ALISTAIR MACDONALD and IAN MCDONALD

[elhombrelibre]

Also see this.

[jiggyboy]

A good, old-fashioned, literal Scottish ass-kicking.

Close enough old sport! An earlier article had The Greatest Headline Of All Time: "I kicked him so hard in the balls that I tore a tendon!"

[Viking2002]

"I kicked him so hard in the balls that I tore a tendon!"

ROTFLMAO I just had beef goulash shoot out my nose, thinking about how hard that must have been. LOL :-) I don't know if it's the wine, or a late weekend evening, but that is a funny image.

[jiggyboy]

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[RobbyS]

You mean he won’t be having any more kids, or the ones he has will have two heads ;-)

[Viking2002]

LOL I guess when you're the Muzzie equivalent of Bananas Foster, a shot in the ol' applesack doesn't register very high on the 'ouch' meter. LOL

[ApplegateRanch]

There is also a picture of Osama bin Laden with the caption: "You told me John Smeaton was off on Saturdays!"

Achmed replied, "NO! I told you, 'John Smeaton is always ready to go off on Saturdays'."

[Blue_Ridge_Mtn_Geek]

“Sam Johnson would’ve clobbered him one.”

Perhaps, though it is unlikely that Sam would have been stupid enough to make the crack about “oats for horses”.

[IslandJeff]

Ping

And you say he’s a Rangers’ fan. H’way the lads.

[IslandJeff]

Matching J&S silver chains were purchased. Two Biggy Smalls rectangular faced perpetual motion Cartiers with diamond-encrusted wristbands were impatiently pointed at and duly wrapped. Fingers were clicked; handfulls of baseball caps were dropped into a groaning plastic bag.

English writing English is just sublime. Even their worst writers (Martin Amis, et al) can still turn a phrase.

[However, we Yanks would use "handsful", rather than "handfulls"]

[SuziQ]

His message to terrorists: "You come to Glasgow, we don't stand for it," he says. "We'll just set aboot ye."

I just LOVE a thick Scottish burr!!

[SuziQ]

LOL!! Who wrote that poem?

The first time I ever heard of Cockney rhyming slang was when I read the Dick Francis novel, "Driving Force". Highly amusing, and requires thought to get to the meaning sometimes.

[AnAmericanMother]

Sam DID make the crack about oats -- he was the man who made it originally. I believe it's in his famous Dictionary, as the definition of OATS - "A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people."

He was notoriously anti-Scot, but if he knew you he would always make an exception. Boswell, his autobiographer, was a Scotsman and a close friend, but he had to put up with a certain amount of anti-Caledonian sniping.

[AnAmericanMother]

Oh, man, though, that is heavy, heavy Glaswegian. Even other Scots have some difficulty understanding it. A lady in the Country Dance Society is from Glasgow, so I at least have some experience listening to it!

I guess the terrorists flambe' just didn't understand that you do not mess with a Keelie. They are hard, tough little men who don't need any encouragement to "get tore in!"

[AnAmericanMother]

The poem is circulating on the internet anonymously, maybe the author will come forward.

[AnAmericanMother]

I would translate “set aboot ye” not so much as “decking” somebody, as with a single punch, but more along the lines of administering a thorough beating with head butts (the usual opening gambit in a Glasgow free-for-all) kicks and punches until the recipient stops moving . . . .

[AnAmericanMother]

Hey, Bananas Foster tastes good!

Maybe the muzzie equivalent of one of those flaming paper bags bad boys leave on doorsteps?

[Blue_Ridge_Mtn_Geek]

Sam DID make the crack about oats — he was the man who made it originally. I believe it’s in his famous Dictionary, as the definition of OATS - “A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.”

He was notoriously anti-Scot, but if he knew you he would always make an exception. Boswell, his autobiographer, was a Scotsman and a close friend, but he had to put up with a certain amount of anti-Caledonian sniping.

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I thought better of him; not only making a stupid remark but going into print with it. Oh well, even Jove nods, e.g., David Hume, a non-stupid man by most accounts (and a Scot) had similarly stupid views about non-whites.

[AnAmericanMother]

Ooooo, I could really start an internecine brawl here by shouting, 'moan then, ye orange . . .'

But I wouldn't do that. Hat's off to Rangers supporters today.

[AnAmericanMother]

It was just Dr. Sam's schtick. I'm part Scottish on both sides, and some Irish (he didn't think much of the Irish either), and I've never held it against him. Neither did Bozzie. Dr. Johnson was a highly eccentric man (suffering as he did from both de la Tourette's and OCD) and I for one am willing to cut him a good deal of slack.

You have to understand, as far as Hume is concerned, that most people in England (and especially Scotland) had never even SEEN a non-white person. His remarks were purely theoretical, not personal.