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Ariel
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If it wasn't for That Place North of Hadrian's Wall we probably wouldn’t have:
Sean Connery, the haggis, Ham*** MacBeth, the Edinburgh Festival, David Tennant, butter****ch, ****ch tape, Sir Walter ****t, West Highland Terriers, Hadrian’s Wall, or this thread.
Let's celebrate the good things the country has to offer us. Points may be awarded, deducted, or not given at all.
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Tubbs
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Hmmm ... David ... er sorry ... ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif) Doctor Who fans wouldn't have had 7 (McCoy), 10 (Tennant) or 12 (Capaldi). Unthinkable!
We wouldn't have Sherlock Holmes and Harry Potter either!
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Adeodatus
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For the purposes of this thread, * 'll overlook the fact that north of Hardrian's wall is sixty miles of the most beautiful county of ***land (so beautiful, in fact, that * believe God himself has a small retirement cottage there). And * 'll say Hurrah for ****t*** art, especially the ****t*** Colourists, and especially for Francis Cadell, one of my favourite painters.
[ETA: another H&A Day discovery - even URL links get their letters replaced by *s!]
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Ariston
Insane Unicorn
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Irn-Bru, Islay malt, and haggis. Proof that delicious, wonderful things can come from what seems at first disgusting.
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“Therefore, let it be explained that nowhere are the proprieties quite so strictly enforced as in men’s colleges that invite young women guests, especially over-night visitors in the fraternity houses.” Emily Post, 1937.
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Jane R
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# 331
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<tangent> About ten miles or so of the Debateable Land in the other most beautiful county in E***land is also north of Hadrian's Wall. The Wall goes more or less straight across from coast to coast at the narrowest point; the modern border is north of it in Cumbria too. <\tangent>
* say hurrah for Mollie Hunter, ****land's answer to Rosemary Sutcliff.
And another hurrah for tablet. Tourists who don't know any better are fobbed off with vastly inferior ***l*** fudge; it took me a long time to find a shop that sold tablet last time * went to Edinburgh (the best stuff was at the newsagent's round the corner from my relative's house). Have the shopowners on the Royal Mile no respect for Tradition?
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Baptist Trainfan
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Possibly not. But they probably have a lot of respect for profits.
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jrw
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Kenneth McKellar, Ivor Cutler. Really nice scones too.
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Marvin the Martian
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Isn't this thread a bit like saying we don't have champagne because France isn't the same country as the one we're in?
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Miffy
Ship's elephant
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Porridge.
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Growing Greenpatches
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Ariel
Shipmate
# 58
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Miffy, you've instantly acquired 5 minus points for mention of the dreaded P-word. It was a nice thread until you posted that.
* 'll throw some ****ch Pancakes at it in the hope of redressing some of the balance.
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Miffy
Ship's elephant
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quote:
Crap spouted by Ariel:
Miffy, you've instantly acquired 5 minus points for mention of the dreaded P-word. It was a nice thread until you posted that.
* 'll throw some ****ch Pancakes at it in the hope of redressing some of the balance.
Drop scones, Ariel, drop scones!
What about some nice
potted heid then? *Horrible memories of being forced to eat this 'delicacy,' on childhood visits to the ****t*** branch of the family. * ![[Projectile]](graemlins/puke2.gif)
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ArachnidinElmet
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* 'll see your David Tennant and raise you a James McAvoy (in fact there could be a whole separate thread of Hot!****t***!Actors!).
Also the works of the late Iain (M) Banks.
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Ariel
Shipmate
# 58
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quote:
Miffy:
What about some nice
potted heid then? *Horrible memories of being forced to eat this 'delicacy,' on childhood visits to the ****t*** branch of the family. *
Sounds lovely, wouldn't have a problem with it myself.
Meanwhile, Ι'm adding the entire Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett.
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Piglet
Islander
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quote:
Crap spouted by Miffy:
Porridge.
* thought we were looking for GOOD things about ****land. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
My tuppence-worth: Orkney fudge, Highland Park whisky ... oh stuff it ... Orkney generally.
And Aberdeen butteries.
Can you tell we've just come back from a trip home? ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
[ 19. September 2014, 19:39: Message edited by: piglet ]
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Pigwidgeon
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Thanks to that northern country of Great Britain for consecrating Samuel Seabury so that we have an American Episcopate.
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Stercus Tauri
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quote:
Crap spouted by piglet:
quote:
Crap spouted by Miffy:
Porridge.
* thought we were looking for GOOD things about ****land.
My tuppence-worth: Orkney fudge, Highland Park whisky ... oh stuff it ... Orkney generally.
And Aberdeen butteries.
Can you tell we've just come back from a trip home?
Ah, butteries... Just a few weeks to go, then * 'll stagger off the plane in Glasgow and head straight to the train north for a gut full of butteries and Marmite (and some relatives).
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Ariston
Insane Unicorn
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Tablet and rhubarb boiled sweets.
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Lyda*Rose
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All accents north of the significant border with special love for Edinburgh! ![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif)
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Jane R
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# 331
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Baptist Trainfan, on shopkeepers in the Royal Mile not selling tablet: quote:
But they probably have a lot of respect for profits.
Any time someone makes tablet for our church fairs it sells out before anything else. That could be because there are a lot of people who know what it is in Yorkshire, but you can usually sell it to someone who doesn't by telling them it's better than fudge and/or offering them a free sample.
The real reason why they don't sell it is probably because it's harder to make than fudge. But that's no excuse.
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cattyish
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* love this place of understated humour and grammar which differs in an entertaining way.
Catty***, glad to be in the North East.
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Twilight
Puddleglum's sister
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Hurrah for Groundskeeper Willie, the funniest of all "The Simpsons" stereotypes. Long may his kilt fly up to a chorus of, "Ewwww's"
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Peppone
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Without us, your jockstraps would be just... straps.
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I looked at the wa's o' Glasgow Cathedral, where vandals and angels painted their names,
I was clutching at straws and wrote your initials, while parish officials were safe in their hames.
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Miffy
Ship's elephant
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from Mr M - Brewdog
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Growing Greenpatches
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Piglet
Islander
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quote:
Originally posted by Jane R:
... Any time someone makes tablet for our church fairs it sells out before anything else ...
I started making tablet for our church sales a few years ago; it seems to go like hot cakes and now I've got to do it every bloody time ... ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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