January 25, 2008
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Happy Burns Day!
Today, January 25th, is the day all good Scots celebrate the birthday
of their beloved national poet, Robert Burns. LibbyK and Gockle will
get a chance to join in the fun at youth group tonight where they are
serving haggis as a treat. Mmm-Mm! Nothing gets a bunch of middle
schoolers more excited than the finely-chopped sheep heart, liver and
lungs mixed with oatmeal, onions, and seasonings boiled in a bag made
from the sheep’s
stomach. Pass me a fork!A joke you’ve probably heard before…
An Englishman is being shown around a Scottish
hospital. At the end of his visit, he is shown into a ward with a number
of patients who show no obvious signs of injury. He examines the first man he
sees who is thrashing on his bed, shouting:Fair fa’ yer honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain e’ the puddin’ 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 Englishman, somewhat taken aback, observes the next
patient who is rolling his eyes and muttering:Some hae meat, and canna eat,
And some wad eat that want it,
But we hae meat and we can eat,
And sae the Lord be thankit.The Englishman, now baffled, turns to a third patient who
grabs the visitor’s jacket lapels and pulls him close. Confidentially, the
patient whispers:Wee sleekit cow’rin tim’rous beastie,
O what a panic’s in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
wi’ bickering brattle.
I wad be laith to run and chase thee,
wi’ murdering prattle!”The Englishman extracts himself from the patient’s grip.
“Well,” he murmured to his Scottish colleague, “I see you saved
the psychiatric ward for the last.”“Nay, nay,” the Scottish doctor corrected him,
“this is the Serious Burns unit.”Have a great weekend!
Comments (20)
I have never heard of this joke before
Ha! Someone else sent me that joke yesterday…must be the season! Do you get to eat any of this delectable treat?
That is what Haggis is?? AACCKK I think I will pass that one up.. If you never told me what the ingredients were. I just mmiigggghhhttt try it.. *gulp*
I never heard of that one… It took me a while to figure out what they were saying.. lol
LOL; that’s great.
* snort *
Haggis…yum! I want to say that my first (and last!) taste was in Scotland. Is it just for the youth group, or will you get to sneak a taste too?
Never heard that joke before actually, but it was funny. And while we’re on the subject jokes, here’s one that you’ve probably heard before.
Three guys, one British, on Scottish, and the other Irish, are sitting in a bar drinking beer when they each discover a gnat in their mugs.
The Brit says, “That’s disgusting!” and takes the gnat out with his handkerchief.
The Scottish guy says, “More protein,” and drinks the gnat.
The Irish guy picks up the gnat, shakes it, and yells, “Spit it out! Spit it out!”
I think I had better just stick to math … that there poetry is just too complicated for me!
Hahhahaa! That is a good one!
At first glance, I just thought you had mispelled Hoagies. Haggis? That is a new one to me. Please don’t invite me over when you make this at home! hahah
Very nice. Nothing better than a good groaner.
Pretty good joke. When my son was little instead of saying “stop teasing me” he would say “stop joking me.” I thought that was so cute that I still say it today. (Just a little bit of trivia your post brought to mind)
So…what’s hapnin in the UK this weekend?
Robert Burns is awesome!
$600 is a lot of money to me, too.
Geee….your kiddos must be pretty desperate for socialization!!! (LOL) Eeeeeek! I think I would have to stuff their pockets with thier Skittles!!
I think all your cheezy foods is rubbing off on your jokes!!! (rotfl) I’m so glad you guys made friends that love the same games as you…and who drives a minivan!!! HUZZAH IS RIGHT!!
My mom is a Glaswegian, and has been in this country for 54 years now. She’s going to a Burns’ Supper tomorrow night, and will be wearing her trues (sp?) I got the opportunity to try haggis when we visited Culzean castle. I thought is was really peppery!
Funny!
By the way, have you all had marmite yet? My hubby loves marmite…not my favorite!
Yummy! Haggis! We like it, and the kids love it. It is really good–and you don’t eat the sheep stomach bag.
Sounds like you’re finding a niche. Way to go!
Woah, haggis for real, huh? Your children have nerves of steel.
I thought that joke was pretty funny……^_^
Nice joke, but do I detect a hint of sarcasm in your voice when you speak of this yummy haggis?
LOL!!! Never heard it before, and I love it! I also like the barroom joke above.
The Burns line that always comes back to me is “Ach! Where ye goin, ye crawlin’ ferlie?” or something like that. It’s directed to a louse crawling out of a well-dressed lady’s bonnet, and the picture just always struck me really funny.
If all burn units were like this one. My brother in law was in England speaking to a group of scientists and he told one of his little jokes about particle physics or some such thing. This reminds me of that… you think we’ve read Burns…I’m flattered…. the scientists laughed.