Wild Haggis Photo?

[Kraaijeveld A.R.]

Tonight I'll be hosting a wee private Burns Night Celebration at home for a few friends, two Americans and one German. They haven't been long in the UK and none of them had heard of Rabbie, none of them had heard of Burns Night, none of them has ever had haggis, none of them has a clue what skirlie is, etc ...

And as none of them knows what a Scottish accent really sounds like, I think I can get away with my 'Dutch-Scots' accent when reading "Address to a Haggis". 

And I'll be opening the evening with some Scottish wine; we'll have only music from Scottish musicians coming out of the CD player and with a bit of luck I might be able to find a bottle of Scottish whisky ....

Will be fun, but now I need to think as to where/how to get my hands on some Scottish whisky ... hints, anyone?


Slainte!!
Lex

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-----Original Message-----
From: MALTS-L at RZ.UNI-KARLSRUHE.DE on behalf of Rob Stevens
Sent: Sat 27/01/2007 10:08
To: MALTS-L at LISTS.UNI-KARLSRUHE.DE
Subject: Re: Wild Haggis Photo?
 
I remember a "running Haggis" on the websites of the Scotsman newspaper. But
you have to catch him yourself on : http://haggishunt.scotsman.com/

Rob

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Van: MALTS-L at RZ.UNI-KARLSRUHE.DE
[mailto:MALTS-L at RZ.UNI-KARLSRUHE.DE]Namens Ralph Katzenell
Verzonden: zaterdag 27 januari 2007 10:38
Aan: MALTS-L at LISTS.UNI-KARLSRUHE.DE
Onderwerp: Re: Wild Haggis Photo?


Greetings all,
Thank you all for your suggestions, on and off-line.
At last nights Burns Supper, above the Sea of Galillee and with
participation by heavily-accented honoured guests from the Church of
Scotland, we were admonished to keep to the tradition, and use the Lowland
dialect term: An "aw'fu" of haggisis, with the Speyside-Doric regional
add-on of the "l", to make it an aw'ful o' haggises.

Peter's proposal of "Haggi" for the plural had to be righteously rejected on
PC grounds, as it smacked too much of an attempt at cultural hegemony by the
evil Romano/Hellenic occupationist forces from the far side of the wall
(Hadrian's, of course!).

An' bye the bye, in pride of place was a whisky from absent friend, Arty,
the boozer's doctor. An old Macallan 12 yo, sherry casked just as it should
be. To remind us of what has been lost in the move to that "Fine Oak" stuff.

But anybody got a photo? Willing and able to make one, a la Reuters?

Uncle Ralph


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From: Peter Wood <st.peter at PARADISE.NET.NZ>
Date: Friday, January 26, 2007 12:35 pm
Subject: Re: Wild Haggis Photo?

> >A 'stomach' of haggises!
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> AKA a Skinfull of Haggi
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> Peter Wood
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