Raise your saltire in the air like you just don't care

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Happy St.Andrew's Day to one and all (except you filty English pigs).

― Jonnie, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i are filty :( better take a bath!

― katie, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes to all your fine scotsman , have some scotch on me.

― anthony, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I just had a phone call from an Irate Scotsman, if only I'd known I could've placated him by wishing him happy St Andrew's day.

― Emma, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Isn't Saltaire in Utah, by Salt Lake ? Wasn't it in "CArnival of Souls"?

― Mike Hanle y, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I wish there was an Oor Wullie day.

― Nicole, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

happy St Andrew's Day and neaps and tatties to the lot of you. only if you're REAL scottish people that is though - i knew someone who PRENTENDED to be scottish at Uni and she was heller annoying. if any of you real scots out there heard her accent boy, you'd think she was taking the piss. rickyT will back me up on this!

― katie, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

you haven't heard Jonnie's "scottish" accent have you?

and yes Jonnie I know you're scottish really ;-)

― chris, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah, at college for the Burns Night dinner they didn't have enough real Scottish people so would invite any old punter with a Scottish surname but not me OH NO us Hamiltons are not Scottish enough it would seem. We have a tartan and a motto and everything (the motto, according to Mad grandpa, is Through, whatever the hell that's supposed to mean). Oh well screw them, I have no desire to curtsey to haggises or whatever.

― Emma, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I went to said Burn's Night dinner twice because my surname was Polish, and I knew the organiser. Eight courses and more whiskey than I can shake a stick at. I actually used the excuse that my Grandad - as part of the Polish Airforce - spent much of the time during the war defending the strategic airspace of Scotland.

You weren't invited Emma because no-one liked you. Ha ha.

― Pete, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What the hell is a saltire? Is it a cracker?

― Samantha, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's the name given to the flag of St Andrew

― chris, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Andrew's the Patron Saint of Russia too, you know. The old Imperial Russian flag was like the Scottish one, but with the colours reversed.

Has your surname been abbvtd then Pete? Did it used to have an "owski" on the end?

― MarkH, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't have the time for Caledonian romance.

― Nick, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I cannot remember who organised the Burns Dinner Pete but I am sure it was not anyone who mattered or anyone whose friendship I craved. I was invited to all the cool dinners anyway e.g. Christian Union (maybe to convert the infidel?), Croquet etc.

― Emma, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Not all Polish names end in oswski, ofski etc... (Though there are Baranofski's, Baranowski's and not to mention Christine Baranski out there). Its a great surname actually because most people, when they hear it, assume it is written like Keith Barron from Duty Free.

Christian Union dinner. I blew that one out, I had a feeling it wouldn't be a bouze-fest. Croquet dinner though - I was down with that. Darts Dinner was always the best though.

― Pete, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't have the time for Caledonian romance.

I *did* have the time. A pox on this thread. *mopes*

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes. Scotland. Good place. I read recently that something like 60% of people living in Scotland don't know who their patron saint is. Shocking. I'm going to the pub again to celebrate.

― Ally C, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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