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Scotland invented the modern world and most everything in it including our economic system. Don't know how many have ever heard of Adam Smith or the Rev. Henry Duncan but they believed in thrift. Thrift has positive connotations - the common 'Harry Lauderesque' image of Scots miser's does not. Mr L...

So, I'm considering moving to Scotland (not sure if it'll work out yet, especially pay-wise... bunch of misers!), and the two cities I'm considering are Edinburgh and Dundee. Any pros/cons for each city from someone perhaps a bit more local than myself? Protean, I'm a native son of Edinburgh. It is...

Jackson was a man of modest talent who had very good people around him, mostly notably, Quincy Jones. He did not come up with the moon walk, btw. He was not a dancer - he did "moves." Now, what Frank Sinatra had to do to keep up wth Gene Kelly - that was dancing! Spinning around and moonw...

McRae died of pneumonia* rather than in the trenches, but he didn't come home from Flanders, either. *Contracted while running a military hospital in 1918. Injury and disease affected many of those who finally did make it home. My grandad served in the British Army and spent his war in a stinking m...

The day is also called Remembrance Day in the UK, and throughout much of the Commonwealth. The idea of using poppies came about as a result of this poem by John McRae - a doctor serving with Canadian troops in the unspeakable horrors of trench warfare on the Western Front. In Flanders Fields By: Lie...

Just because it was written down from the Scots doesn't first mean it was originally a Scottish tune. djm It also does not preclude the possibility that it was indeed Scots. I don't recollect seeing any Irish tune collections that include the melody Bunessan, but perhaps you or others may have. Thi...

A little different feel, perhaps, than you are after, but "Morning Has Broken" is a good song, definitely about fresh starts and new beginnings. Plus, it's based on an Irish air. What more could you want? :) --James What more? How about it's actual origin - Scotland. The melody is called ...

In a similar vein, for any one in the area, Dervish are playing at the Crystal
Corner Bar in Madison, WI on Thursday night at 9pm.

-34 degree wind chill when I arose this morning. Took an ice pick along in
case I had to chip the dog off the water hydrant at the corner of the block.
I'm ready for golf season ...

I did not realize it at the time, maybe because I was not yet conversant with the whistle, maybe because I was 5, but the theme from the show Taxi was played on the whistle. Might be a good one to learn for busking in places with a high Baby Boomer concentration... http://youtube.com/watch?v=CDj2-t...

Tommy wrote:Cowboys 37 V Packers 27


YEEEEEHAAAAAWWW......

Next year, Tommy - maybe next year.

Go Pack go !!!

Has anybody else seen the Irish movie "Once"? Yeah. I got two DVD's for Xmas - 'Once' and 'Red Road'. I recommend both. 'Once' is very sweet and the performances are great. As others have noted, the music is actually pretty good too. 'Red Road' is a different kettle of fish, though no les...

... Lowland scots are angles: as germanic as the english. No, the reality is much more complex. The Scottish lowlands were a crucible of clashing cultures - Scot's, Strathclyde Britons, Picts and Angles. Cumbric (the Brythonic tongue of the Britons) was spoken in Strathclyde into the 11th century, ...

anyone have the abc or know it for flower of scotland cheers That song sucks. It's a second rate pub dirge. I know - I used to play in a second rate pub band that played in second rate Edinburgh pubs. No evening was complete without a drunken rendition of 'The Flower". Nothing funnier than the...