General Chat

It was a good game GL :-D

Yes, EK certainly put up a great fight and gave great publicity to the town.

Am I the only one who laughed at "Amanda"? :-D


There ONE Scottish woman who lives in town (other than myself), and I might see her once a year............. so I told the joke to an Irishman.... who understands Scottish lol


:-D

Apologies LadyScozz,
I did find it funny.
It's an oldie but a goodie. :-D :-D

I hadn't heard it .... as I said, I don't know many Scots locally.... and when I find a Scottish joke I torment Himself :-D...... that's the man who says "pilly willy" when he's trying to talk "Scottish"

Pilly Willy?

peely wally

The trouble with Scottish expressions is that you can say them but more often than not ye cannae spell them.

"Pilly Willy" isn't too bad for an Aussie trying to speak Scottish.


You should have seen my cousin's face when he told her we got to her place via........ wait for it........... Dumb Fries. Yes, that's how he thought it was pronounced.

I wasn't brave enough to take him to Auchtermuchty.

:-D

Or even Milngavie.

:-D :-D at least he tried it Scozz :-)

Try him with Loch Muick :-D

He was very confused by Dalziel :-D :-D



I tried telling him the story about the woman in the baker's shop, asking for pies.......
twa inning and wan o yon yings

He looked at me like I was a daftie :-D

The Glasgow-based Herald newspaper published a series of film titles, some supplied by their readers, subtly altered to include the names of a host of Scottish towns. Here's a selection (though you may need an atlas if you are not familiar with Scottish geography):
•Brechin Counter
•Dumb and Dumbarton
•Aberlady and the Tramp
•Silence of the Glamis
•The Killin Fields
•Forfar the Madding Crowd
•101 Dalmellingtons
•CleoPatna
•Tainspotting
•Beuly and the Beast
•The Tullibody Snatchers
•Journey to the Centre of Perth
•Clynder Ella
•Dial M for Milngavie
•Millngavies and Dolls
•Kelty's Heroes
•Leven, on a Jet Plane
•The Madness of Kingussie
•Croy, the Beloved Country
•A Fistfull of Dollar
•For a Few Dollars Morar
•I am Culross - Yellow
•Rhu Mat the Top
•Three Men Arbroath
•Laurencekirk of Arabia
•A Bridgeton Too Far
•The Ziegfield Forres of 1923
•It's a Wonderful Fife
•The Man Who Came in From the Coldstream
•You Only Live Dyce
•Every Which Way But Lewis
•Murders on the Rhu Morgue
•Forres Gump
•Doctor at Largs
•Full Methil Jacket
•Clynder's List
•Renfrew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
•When Harris Met Sanday
•Driving Ruchazie
•But and Ben Hur
•Saving Loch Ryan

and finally, not place names, just a Scottish flavour:
•Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barras
•Up a Close Encounter
•Father of the Bridie

:-D

Fantastic, LadyS.
Brings back memories especially my "up a close encounters"!!

I can't help but wonder who made the list.......... somebody bored at work? Sat down with an atlas ....... lol

A laughed at them all.......... they're ALL my favourites.

:-D

Love that Scozz :-D :-D :-D

A wealthy Arab Sheik was admitted to hospital for heart surgery, but prior to the surgery, the doctors needed to store his type of blood in case the need arose.

As the gentleman had a rare type of blood, it couldn't be found locally, so, the call went out.

Finally a Scotsman was located who had a similar blood type. The Scot willingly donated his blood for the Arab.

After the surgery, the Arab sent the Scotsman in appreciation for giving his blood, a new BMW, 5 carats of diamonds, and $50,000 dollars.

A couple of weeks later, once again, the Arab had to go through a corrective surgery.

The hospital telephoned the Scotsman who was more than happy to donate more of his blood again.

After the second surgery, the Arab sent the Scotsman a thank-you card and a box of Black Magic chocolates.

The Scotsman was shocked that the Arab did not reciprocate his kind gesture as he had before.

He phoned the Arab and asked him: "I thought you would be generous again, that you would give me another BMW, diamonds and money ... but you only gave me a thank-you card and a box of chocolates."


To this the Arab replied: "Aye laddie, but I have Scottish blood in ma veins now".




For any pernickety folks..... I had to put $50,000 because there's no "pound" symbol on my keyboard............ and I can't be bothered looking for the shortcut. :-D

Nice oneLadyS

I saw this story on Facebook.......

Did you know that one of the most popular Indian dishes, Chicken Tikka Masala, was invented in Glasgow?

Ali Ahmed Aslam, proprietor of the Shish Mahal restaurant in the west end of Glasgow, invented chicken tikka masala in 1971. His son Asif Ali explained how this came about...

"On a typical dark, wet Glasgow night a bus driver coming off shift came in and ordered a chicken curry. He sent it back to the waiter saying it's dry. At the time Dad had an ulcer and was enjoying a plate of tomato soup. So he said why not put some tomato soup into the curry with some spices. They sent it back to the table and the bus driver absolutely loved it. He and his friends came back again and again and we put it on the menu."

Wonder what Haggis Tikka Masala would taste like???

bleh!

I don't think tomato soup & spices would cover up the texture & taste of haggis!

It's the liver I really don't like.


:-(

I've been wandering around Facebook

and I found this guy........

Amaf Maheed

There's not much there, I can't help but wonder if somebody made this up as a joke.


If he does exist, he'd better not visit Glasgow.

;-)