Showing posts with label Scotland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scotland. Show all posts

Wednesday, 26 November 2014

Gaelic

Gaelic is the traditional language here in Scotland - although it's rarely spoken outside of communities rife with incest. Most people speak the Queen's English (if, that is, the Queen has a serious case of Tourette's).
- Danny Bhoy, A Visitor's Guide to Scotland

Wednesday, 6 June 2012

Dull sense of humour

Vote due on link between village of Dull and US town of Boring

In which the most interesting points to note are that 

1) the good people of Dull find day-to-day existence so boring (or, indeed, dull) that they count the passage of cyclists through their village; and
2) that Boring is named after a US Civil War veteran, an area of nomenclature - 'Jubiliation T Cornpone', for example - not normally troubled by an excess of boring names. (Cornpone, in case you were wondering, was born in the town of Dogpatch.)

Tuesday, 20 September 2011

Inbox

You are entertained by kangaroos to an extent yes?
[With thanks to Monoganon, Scottish band]