Posted on 01/21/2018 6:24:05 AM PST by QBFimi
Happy birthday tae Robbie Burrrrrns yesterday!
OK, who among ya is sober enough tae attend the Kirkin' a the Tartans today?
Important reminder for next year: Do NOT point out to the wife that the kilt that fit so well in her 20s is a bit tight in her late 60s: “Honey, why don’t you wear the black dress instead?”
“If it’s nae Scottish, it’s crap!”
The Scots will run out of Narcan, I'm afraid.
My ancestry is Scots/Irish and Ani Yun Wiya (Cherokee)
I have known all my life as that “drunk Indian”...LOL
“...I have known...”
I have BEEN known.......Sheesh...
Burns night is 25th January or have you been having a few practice runs ?
Ha! Well, the 25th this year falls on a Thursday. Suppers have tended to fall over the years on the Saturday before the 25th. Both the Colorado and our local Florida society did it on the 20th this year.
Since the 25th falls on a Friday next year, we’ll see ...
“Scots Wha Hae Wie Wallace Bled.” —Old Song.
Henry Livingston, the author of “Night Before Christmas”
1827, the year before he died, aged 79
In arts and arms Escotia stands
Foremost of European lands
Dear soil! from whence my fathers came
I bless and hail thy worth and fame.
Thy sturdy sons in martial pride
With their good broad-swords by their side
In tartain plaid and bonnets blue
A band of Heroes in review.
Scotland excels in peaceful arts:
-Her pulpits warm the coldest hearts;
In poetry her Thompson shines
And thrills us with his glowing lines.
Ramsay and Burns each in their day
Attune their lyres in sweetest lay,
While Scot ascends Parnassus heights
And all the listening world delights.
-But - useless grown my broken shell
I bid the land of cares farewell
Oppressed with the lapse of time
I faintly dream of Auld Lang-Syne.
>> The Scots will run out of Narcan ...
Talk about codependency. Free needles were bad enough. Now drug bums can intentionally risk an OD (at taxpayer’s expense - discounted from $62.50 retail to $37.50 per dose). Just leave a note for your Mom to call 911 when she gets home from work and finds you in the basement. My answer? You made your bed; now die in it.
BTW, when the dose is administered, stand back! It induces INSTANT sobriety - in a flash, wimpy limp Dopin’ Dan turns into Lou Ferrigno’s Incredible Hulk character.
Oh, BTW, before we get too teary eyed about the old country - a shot of reality.
For most all our Scots immigrants in America or Canada today, our ancestors (including my mother, grandparents, uncles and aunts) escaped a shithole slum to get here. (Personal stories available upon request.)
HALF of Scotland is owned by just 500 people, the most of them NOT Scots. It used to be the absentee tweed-wearing Brits, now it’s absentee oil-rich Sand Savages that own the huge estates.
Nowadays, Chinese gold, or Saudi, or Iranian.
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