Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face

[Badger]

Fair fa\' your honest, sonsie face

Anyone planning a Burns supper afloat ? Just a word of warning, young Haggis particularly the ones who are artifically bred in huge cages hidden in the Highlands are not as good as the wild one's.

Seriously though,why is it that there is no corresponding English Poets's night to Burn's night? Is it because with the exception of Shakespeare, there are few English Poets who have the universal appeal and wide breadth of Burns.

Burns covers every emotion from love to anger and from melancholy to sheer good fun. Tennyson could express melancholy, Milton had epic power, Sasson intensity, and Swift satire, but Burns is unusual in having all those together


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[Ohdrat]

Re: Fair fa\' your honest, sonsie face

sorry mate Burns aint an Highlands thing.. He was Scots.. entirely different breed!

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[jhr]

Questionable taste, but...

How about a Ted Hughes night?

Participants could dine off raw meat (torn from the bone with their teeth), whilst declaiming about the savagery of nature and the impermanence of life. After dinner, they could do indifferent translations of Homer, and be lionised for it by their friends.

Optionally, a willing SWMBO could be deputed to play Sylvia Plath, have a blazing argument with their partner, get depressed and put their head in the oven.....

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[tcm]

Re: larkin night

I tried this once, but got a bit bored at the prospect of thirty years in the Hull City Library.

I suppose it's not very English to celebrate things. We don't really celebrate Christmas or easter or birthdays really, just watch telly, eat chocolate or eat cake respectively.

I do hope we can get look forward to some decent Burns jokes - apart from the one about the nutters in a hospital (#46)

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[ParaHandy]

Re: Universal appeal of Scottish poets ..

its wur edukashun that makes us so ...

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[Badger]

Re: Fair fa\' your honest, sonsie face

Agreed, Burns was from Ayr but I'm sure you can confrim that the Haggis farms are in the Highlands ?

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[Badger]

Re: larkin night

You mean this one ?

Tony Blair is being shown around a hospital. Towards the end of his visit, he is shown into a ward with a number of people with no obvious signs of injury.
He goes to greet the first patient and the chap replies:
"Fair fa' your honest sonsie face
Great chieftain o' 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."

Tony, being somewhat confused grins and moves on to the next patient and greets him. He replies:
"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 third starts rattling off as follows:
"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 rin an chase thee
Wi murdering pattle!"

Tony turns to the doctor accompanying him and asks what sort of ward this is. A mental ward?
"No," replies the doctor, "It's the Burns unit."



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[jimi]

Re: Fair fa\' your honest, sonsie face

erm residents of Alloway might be upset at their transplant to the adjacent Ayr!

However my vote would go to John Masefield

I MUST go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,
And a gray mist on the sea's face, and a gray dawn breaking.

I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.

I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull's way and the whale's way, where the wind's like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.

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[jhr]

larkin

Larkin was the librarian at Hull University, not the City library.

I really must stop this - I just can't resist the temptation to be a pedantic git. I've tried therapy and aversion treatment but every time I think I'm cured, I start trying to correct people's spelling, or tell them that the BBC's motto is "Nation shall speak peace unto nation" and that Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam" in Casablanca.

Plainly there is no hope for me. /forums/images/icons/crazy.gif However, I am a whizz at Trivial Pursuit.

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[Twister_Ken]

Re: larkin night

I thought it was the serious burns unit. Or maybe that's joke 47b.

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[tcm]

Re: yes yes

Quite right. "serious" burns. Or "severe" would do. It important to quote poetry right and the same applies to jokes about poetry too, I imagine. Rather surpirised jhr hasn't picked this up...

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[Twister_Ken]

Not Jockish haggii, surely

American research has just shown that they are full of dioxins. Only wild Pacific Haggii are safe to be eaten.

This mesage brought to you by the Pacific North West Food Promotion Board

PS is 'Wild Pacific' an oxymoron?

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[tcm]

Re: trivial pursuit

aha. I think i helped the demise of this game. I did it by learning all the cards! It only takes about an hour. You don't need to learn them too well - eg "what did wasername drive across the USA in 19sumthink" is a golf ball, and once you have seen the answer, you always know it. Anyway, instead of the blimmin game taking hours, it takes ten minutes: as first player there is no real advantage - another player can draw with you if you are first to answer every question correctly, collect all the pie pieces and then aswer the one in the middle as well on the first go, soo, now it's your turn! teehee.

No, good point, we don't seem to go to too many dinner parties any more as it happens...


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[Twister_Ken]

Spike Night...

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[Romeo]

Dahl Supper please

Hot and Cold


A woman who my mother knows
Came in and took off all her clothes.

Said I, not being very old,
'By golly gosh, you must be cold!'

'No, no!' she cried. 'Indeed I'm not!
I'm feeling devilishly hot!'

Roald Dahl



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[Shanty]

Re: Spike Night...

I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
I left my vest and socks there, I wonder if they're dry


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[Twister_Ken]

Re: Dahl Supper please

I believe a dhal supper can be enjoyed in almost any Indian restaurant

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[sailbadthesinner]

Re: brilliant

can't stop laughing

<hr width=100% size=1>My wife wanted tender treatment, so i stowed her whilst at sea

 

[Twister_Ken]

Don\'t encourage him

He'll be telling joke number 73 next.

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[sailbadthesinner]

Re: No 73

#73 punchline?
E she were thin

<hr width=100% size=1>My wife wanted tender treatment, so i stowed her whilst at sea