You forgot deep fried mars bars
Just a fun bit of trivia. For those interested, here is a list of some of the inventions in from Scotland or by Scots. Is it because there is nothing else to do?
Adhesive Postage Stamps
Anaesthetics
Bank of England
Breech-Loading Rifle
Brownian motion
Buicks
Chilean Navy
Decimal Point
Economics
Encyclopedia Britannica
Fax Machines
First Cloned Mammal
Golf
Halloween
High School (including u.s.)
Hypodermic Syringes
Iron Bridges
Logarithms
Marmalade
Mackintosh Raincoats
Macadamized Roads
Microwave Ovens
Paraffin
Penicillin
Peter Pan
Pneumatic Tyres
Quinine
Radar
Refrigerators
Sherlock Holmes
Steam Engine
Sulphuric Acid
Telephones
Thermos Flask
Telegraph
Television
Toad of Toad Hall
Tubular Steel
US Navy
Whisky
You forgot deep fried mars bars
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"If you're going to do something tonight, that you know you'll be sorry for in the morning, plan a lie in." Lorraine
Not forgetting the bridie. Ooooooh, I could just eat a couple of those now.
Chewin' the Fat....... "You've taken that too far"
sign...gonnae no!
I think it's well established that the Irish were making whisky before the Scots. Also that it was made elsewhere long before either of them, although the Irish invented it independently.
What I do thank the Scots for is whisky from Islay, which is surely what the gods on Olympus drank.
A Scotsman who spells
Whisky with a n ‘e’,
should be hand cuffed
and thrown head first in the Dee.
In the USA and Ireland,
it’s spelt with an ‘e’
but in Scotland
it’s real ‘Whisky’.
So if you see Whisky
and it has an ‘e’,
only take it,
if you get it for free!
For the name is not the same
and it never will be,
a dram is only a real dram,
from a bottle of ‘Scotch Whisky’.
Stanley Bruce.
20th April 2004
Drunken Scotsmen, who you can't understand a word of,
the Crankies,
Haggis,
Porridge with salt,
those awfull NYE TV programs.
To address your beautifully laid out points...
1. Drunkeness is not an exclusively Scottish problem, and our lassies are known to drink too.
2. That'd be "The Krankies" - at least we can't claim the Chuckle Brothers.
3. Haggis is excellent.
4. Are you suggesting you would have something other than salt with Porridge?
5. We do not have NYE programmes in Scotland, but our Hogmanay ones are certainly "full" of awe.
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