Glaswegians rule!?

[Amanda]

Originally posted by DJ Curtain
The wooly jumper brigade will surely be in fine form provided tea and stovies are provided.

I'm just quivering at the prospect - AUTUMN MADNESS - tea, stovies, collies, woolly jumpers, tweeds AND Robbie Shepherd - pinch me I'm dreaming. What a heady cocktail.

Come on Franck - let's make it happen. And for good measure how about a few of our four legged haggis friends, clootie dumplings, shedloads of hot steaming neeps, kilts (commando of course), pallets of Irn Bro, deep fried mars bars, obligitary tammies at the door, fish suppers, scottie dugs on patrol, the hall bedecked in tartan..... 'Tanned and toned' wouldn't get a look in compared to this fiesta.

Amanda

[Gus]

Originally posted by Amanda
Come on Franck - let's make it happen. And for good measure how about a few of our four legged haggis friends, clootie dumplings, shedloads of hot steaming neeps, kilts (commando of course), pallets of Irn Bro, deep fried mars bars, obligitary tammies at the door, fish suppers, scottie dugs on patrol, the hall bedecked in tartan.....

Amanda

Franck, for the sake of your foreign members, could you install a translate button so that us Southerners can understand what the heck Amands is going on about? Sounds like she's been taking thos little pink 'happy' pills!!

When is the next party .... and are there any photos from the last one?

[Amanda]

Originally posted by Gus


Franck, for the sake of your foreign members, could you install a translate button so that us Southerners can understand what the heck Amands is going on about

heh, heh, wouldn't you just like to know...

Amanda

[Curtain]

Oh what a mind blast that would be.

Slightly worried about the idea of Scottie Dogs in the same room as kilted men, that is surely a recipe for disaster. I think Franck would be fine with this idea, apart from supplying "obligatory" tammies away at the door. That would cost a bob or two (generated by the hordes of dancers scrambling over each other to get at them).

As a matter of interest Amanda, would they be of the "See you Jimmy" Variety?

[Curtain]

Originally posted by Gus


Franck, for the sake of your foreign members, could you install a translate button so that us Southerners can understand what the heck Amands is going on about? Sounds like she's been taking thos little pink 'happy' pills!!

Gus,

I'm orginally from down Glasgow way, so I struggle a bit too. However, I can tell you that ...

Neeps are Turnips (Yuck!)

Stovies is a mixture of mince and potatoes, amongst an array of vegetables and other ingredients that don't bare thinking about (I heard of an old women who insisted on putting a large helping of strawberry jam into her particular concoction (think she may have been losing her marbles at the time).

Tammies are flat caps (hats) generally worn by OAP's on a brau bricht nicht!!

Cardies (see Tammies)

Irn Bru is Scotland's other national drink apparently (a stomach burning mixture of chemicals promoted as a soft drink).

Do you get it now?

[DavidB]

Originally posted by Gus
PS Exception is made for Irun Bru .... the universal hangover cure

That would be enough to put me off drinking for life

[Gus]

Originally posted by DavidB
That would be enough to put me off drinking for life

Ahhh ... just to confuse matters, thry've now brought out an alcopop version of Irun Bru ... rather defeats the object of the exercise. Rather takes away any logical reasons for drinking it as even its own manufacturers used to claim it was "made from iron girders" ... and many would say thats the way it tastes!

[Amanda]

Originally posted by DJ Curtain

Slightly worried about the idea of Scottie Dogs in the same room as kilted men, that is surely a recipe for disaster.

I am getting such a strong visual on this one...

Amanda

[Curtain]

Sorry, I hate being pedantic, but it's IRN BRU!! Glaswegians are to blame for propagating this drink.

I have to confess that when I was a youngster (which wasn't that long ago really!!) there was nothing better then going to the van (ice cream van) buying a bottle of ginger (Irn Bru) and a pokey hat (ice cream cone) and sticking them both in a large glass. Heaven!! Don't think Irn Bru is the same now, especially in plastic bottles. You cannae beat the glass ... ing someone (for the neds).

[filthycute]

Jeesy peeps!!!! i dismantled my comp for a few hours to get my new desk fitted and it's like an explosion in here!!
Just trying to catch up on this thread......what? when? where? how?......i'm lost.....when did it get onto Scotland and it's traditions?

And DJ Curtain??......since when was a cardie a tammy?????
a cardie is a cardigan!

i hate IRN BRU, don't wear tweed, have more weeds than heather in my garden, don't know any of Rabbie Burns' poems, don't have a tartan rug in my car, only know one verse and the chorus of Flower of Scotland and failed miserably to catch a haggis for Gus........Will i get deported???

just thought i'd get my wee bit in even though i don't have a clue what the hells going on

filthycute x x

[John S]

Gosh, fc - next thing you'll be telling us is that you don't know who Robbie Shepherd is - and him the King of the Dance Floor too (bet Gus hasn't heard of him!!!!)

[Gus]

Originally posted by John S
Gosh, fc - next thing you'll be telling us is that you don't know who Robbie Shepherd is - and him the King of the Dance Floor too

I know I'm probably going to regret this but...

is Messr Shepherd mythical, historical, traditional or a real live cerocer of dance floor skills to match of the wonderfull Scottish female cerocers?

[Amanda]

Originally posted by filthycute
don't have a tartan rug in my car....

And there was me thinking that EVERY Scottish driver kept a tartan rug in the boot of their car - boy, am I disappointed....

It's the equivalent of having name tapes sewn into your clothes - anytime you forget who you are - whoops - look in the back in the car for a quick reminder and there you go....Scottish. Result.

Amanda the tartan chilli

hootsmonhelpmaboabochayethenooseeyoujimmy

[Curtain]

Originally posted by filthycute
And DJ Curtain??......since when was a cardie a tammy?????
a cardie is a cardigan!

Probably didn't make myself very clear eh? I just presumed that everyone knew what a cardie was, so by "(See Tammy)" I meant that they are generally worn by OAP's on a brau bricht nicht.

Sorry Mel, just thought that everyone was on the same wave length. Oh well, here on my own again!!

[filthycute]

Originally posted by John S
Gosh, fc - next thing you'll be telling us is that you don't know who Robbie Shepherd is - and him the King of the Dance Floor too (bet Gus hasn't heard of him!!!!)

erm....who?

filthycute x x

[Heather]

Me neither!!!!! Never heard of him , but then he was probably around WELL before our time!!!
Remember Mel - John S is about a century old!!!!!
He probably knew this 'Robbie' guy from back in 19 Oatcake!!!



Heather

[Sandy]

Originally posted by DJ Curtain
Sorry, I hate being pedantic, but it's IRN BRU!! Glaswegians are to blame for propagating this drink.

I have to confess that when I was a youngster (which wasn't that long ago really!!) there was nothing better then going to the van (ice cream van) buying a bottle of ginger (Irn Bru) and a pokey hat (ice cream cone) and sticking them both in a large glass. Heaven!!

Ahhhh music to my ears you must have spent a few years on the west coast with language like that?? a bottle of ginger, a pokey hat - surely only Glasgow (west of Scotland) terms, or am I wrong???

Blame is surely wrong - next to whisky it's Scotland's national drink!(tho I actually prefer whisky!!)


Cheers

Sandy

[John S]

Fit ye sayin? Nae heard tell o Robbie Shepherd?

Will yin o youse loons an quines frae up north nae tak the flair an tell yon Inglis Gus aboot Aiberdeenshire's hero? Fit a gran nicht we wid aa hae syn Robbie were tae gang tae the nixt Ceroc pairty in Aiberdeen.

Ma Doric's nae guid enow tae dae it proper

Seeing as how we have an international readership and don't have simultaneous translation facilities built in, then for those unacquainted with the gentleman in question (Heather, FC, I'm shocked - stands Scotland where she did?) Robbie is the doyen of Scottish Country Dance music and regularly hosts "Take the Floor" on Radio Scotland. (Now lets see some seriously progressive Ceroc DJs include THAT in their playlists! Well, maybe not.)

[Franck]

Originally posted by John S
Robbie is the doyen of Scottish Country Dance music and regularly hosts "Take the Floor" on Radio Scotland. (Now lets see some seriously progressive Ceroc DJs include THAT in their playlists! Well, maybe not.)

Never heard of the man myself, but I have played Scottish Country music at the class I taught in Hammersmith... Ok, so the theme was Ceroc with a Scottish twist, and I had my kilt on, but it seemed to go down well (the music, not the kilt ). I might have to play a track or too soon...

Franck.

[Curtain]

Originally posted by Sandy
Ahhhh music to my ears you must have spent a few years on the west coast with language like that?? a bottle of ginger, a pokey hat - surely only Glasgow (west of Scotland) terms, or am I wrong???

Well Sandy, I was born in Glasgow and went to school in Aberdeen. Still have a lot of family connections down there, but don't visit as much as I used (was never away from the place).

Mores the pity!!