RMweb Premium Kylestrome Posted January 19 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 19 4 minutes ago, CWJ said: Is someone going to say it, or are we all just going to think it? "Nice Castor canadensis!" It doesn't have quite the same ring to it, somehow ... 2 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
exmoordave Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 An oldie but a goodie......... A Scotsman and his wife walked past a swanky new restaurant. "Did you smell that food?" she asked,"It smells absolutely incredible!" Being a kind-hearted Scotsman he thought "What the hell, I'll treat her" So they walked past it again........... 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CameronL Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 Another oldie.. What's the difference between a Scotsman and a coconut? You can get a drink out of a coconut. 1 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Kylestrome Posted January 21 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 21 3 minutes ago, CameronL said: You can get a drink out of a coconut. If I was a Scot, I'd resemble that remark! 1 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CameronL Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 Just now, Kylestrome said: If I was a Scot, I'd resemble that remark! I'm half Scottish (which explains "Cameron"). Someone once asked me why I don't wear a kilt, and I replied "It's the top half. " 4 1 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted January 21 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 21 1 hour ago, CameronL said: Another oldie.. What's the difference between a Scotsman and a coconut? You can get a drink out of a coconut. Could also apply to a Yorkshireman. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welchester Posted January 21 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 21 What's the difference between a rich Scotsman, a poor Scotsman and a dead Scotsman? A rich Scotsman has a canopy over his bed. A poor Scotsman has a can o' pee under his bed. A dead Scotsman canna pee at all. 3 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CameronL Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 (edited) Well, if we're offending the regions - What's the difference between black Americans and Yorkshiremen? Black Americans gave us The Blues. Yorkshiremen whinge all the time: they just don't set it to music. (Maybe also applies to the Welsh?) Edited January 21 by CameronL Typo 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Chris116 Posted January 21 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 21 17 minutes ago, CameronL said: Well, if we're offending the regions - What's the difference between black Americans and Yorkshiremen? Black Americans gave us The Blues. Yorkshiremen winge all the time: they just don't set it to music. (Maybe also applies to the Welsh?) But the Welsh have male voice choirs! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CameronL Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 8 minutes ago, Chris116 said: But the Welsh have male voice choirs! And if they're singing in Welsh, who knows? There could be more whingeing than an album by The Smiths. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted January 21 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 21 1 hour ago, CameronL said: And if they're singing in Welsh, who knows? There could be more whingeing than an album by The Smiths. I refer you to the comments about Welsh singing in this Flanders and Swann song... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted January 21 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 21 3 hours ago, Welchester said: What's the difference between a rich Scotsman, a poor Scotsman and a dead Scotsman? A rich Scotsman has a canopy over his bed. A poor Scotsman has a can o' pee under his bed. A dead Scotsman canna pee at all. That's nothing; a dead Irishman canna pee at all at all... 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted January 21 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 21 7 minutes ago, The Johnster said: That's nothing; a dead Irishman canna pee at all at all... Grone... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted January 21 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 21 (edited) We Welsh are Celts, and have an innate appreciation of misery; Gloomy Sunday could have been written for us, and I mean the original 'suicide song' version not Lady Day's sanitised one! The weather, oppressive mountains, general deprivation, and the understanding that life must be taken seriously and suffered. This is refleced in choral singing, with songs in minor keys such as Sanctaidd, Jesu lover of my soul, and the heart-shredding Myfanwy, a solid favourite sung every Saturday as soon as a group of us are drunk on the Rosslare-Fishguard night ferry. The Irish, however, with historically much more to complain about, sing quite cheery ditties, jigs & reels &c. It doesn't take a genius to realise that the smile is the lid on a scream, though; Danny Boy, Fields of Athenry, and The Minstrel Boy are closer to the mark for our fellow Celts. No pretence with the Scots, of course, we're straight into Twa Corbies and Cruel Sister; jealousy, betrayal, murder, and the contruction of a haunted harp from the victim's rotted corpse, fa la-la-la la la la laa la-laa... Edited January 22 by The Johnster 7 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Steamport Southport Posted January 21 Popular Post Share Posted January 21 No wonder the Angles/Saxons/Danes had ear flaps on their helmets! 1 1 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted January 22 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 22 There is much classical description of Celtic warriors as being unafraid of death, probably because their lives were so gloomy! 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB-AU Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 On 14/01/2024 at 23:46, KeithMacdonald said: How much wood would you get from a wood? I don't know, but Edward Woodward would. He did that joke himself in the 1980s! 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post aardvark Posted January 22 Popular Post Share Posted January 22 My wife caught me cheating. She found all my hidden letters. I guess that’s the end of our Scrabble games. 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CameronL Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 13 hours ago, The Johnster said: We Welsh are Celts, and have an innate appreciation of misery; Gloomy Sunday could have been written for us, and I mean the original 'suicide song' version not Lady Day's sanitised one! The weather, oppressive mountains, general deprivation, and the understanding that life must be taken seriously and suffered. This is refleced in choral singing, with songs in minor keys such as Sanctaidd, Jesu lover of my soul, and the heart-shredding Myfanwy, a solid favourite sung every Saturday as soon as a group of us are drunk on the Rosslare-Fishguard night ferry. The Irish, however, with historically much more to complain about, sing quite cheery ditties, jigs & reels &c. It doesn't take a genius to realise that the smile is the lid on a scream, though; Danny Boy, Fields of Athenry, and The Minstrel Boy are closer to the mark for our fellow Celts. No pretence with the Scots, of course, we're straight into Twa Corbies and Cruel Sister; jealousy, betrayal, murder, and the contruction of a haunted harp from the victim's rotted corpse, fa la-la-la la la la laa la-laa... How true. So many Irish and Scottish folk songs can be summed up as "There was a young girl and one day she died." They even borrow other races' misery. I once knew an Irishman who was convinced that "Dirty Old Town" was a traditional Irish song about Dublin. It was written about Salford by Ewan MacColl, who was born in Salford, and is therefore about as Irish as Boddington's Bitter (brewed in Salford at the time). 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted January 22 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 22 9 minutes ago, CameronL said: How true. So many Irish and Scottish folk songs can be summed up as "There was a young girl and one day she died." There's a certain amount of that in English folk song, though it's usually tied up with regret for the passing of youth: Oh when I was one-and-twenty I kissed the girls a-plenty But now I'm twenty-two I'm stuck with only you. 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted January 22 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 22 7 minutes ago, Compound2632 said: There's a certain amount of that in English folk song, though it's usually tied up with regret for the passing of youth: Oh when I was one-and-twenty I kissed the girls a-plenty But now I'm twenty-two I'm stuck with only you. Or the perils of taking a careless stroll one morning in May... 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 I can't remember who wrote it, but there's a pastiche of AE Housman which includes the lines: What? Still alive at twenty-two? A fine upstanding man like you? It does apply to a great deal of traditional folklore. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 2 hours ago, Hroth said: Or the perils of taking a careless stroll one morning in May... Or killing John Barleycorn? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Jeremy Cumberland Posted January 22 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 22 Fol-de-rol Ding-a-ling Hey down ho down No-ni-no With a roly poly, gammon, and spinach All among the leaves so green-O 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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