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[wini]

David.
You should have not have mentioned HAGGIS.
Do you know how many People in Australia WOULD LIKE TO BE SCOTTISH.
I could not count in 43 years the number of people who have calimed to be from Scottish descent.
Of course there are only 2 groups of people in the world
The SCOTS and those who would like to be.
My neighbours who own more land than The entire British Isles, have a penchant for things Scottish and although their surname is Harrington the Christian name is LOCH everyone pronounced it Lock until we put them right
I have had to bring back HAGGIS from Melbourne for him.
Bring 50 Haggis with you and I will meet you in Brissie
Only 1700 Kms from where I live.
I did get him a Haggis Hunt T shirt & Beanie for Christmas.

wini

[rdem]

wini:
Same here in Canada, I attend most highland games here in southern Ontario and the biggest clan to show up are the Mac Wannabees !!!!! <smile>

Also the Fry's chocolate cream bars are still available as well as Orange and peppermint.

[DavidWW]

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Bring 50 Haggis with you and I will meet you in Brissie.

Nae prob. Will you arrange in advance to provide the bail money when Dept. Ag. Fish & Forestry chuck me into jail

....Only 1700 Kms from where I live.
I did get him a Haggis Hunt T shirt & Beanie for Christmas.

wini

I knew Australia was a BIG country, but, wow!, that's the same state. Are you closer to Brissie or Darwin?

I hope that you also got him the very sad tale of the decline of the haggis, - for those who don't know, three legged, two long, one short, lives on mountain sides but having increasingly major problems reproducing due to males becoming ever more clockwise, and females counter-clockwise ..........

David

PS Could it be time to reactivate the Clan McHoughmagandy Association
dww

[Tusker]

Due to recent world concerns regarding bird flu, I think the Oz Fish & Game Dept might take a very dim view of the importation of Haggii (correct plural of Haggis!) live or dead.....I don't know about the importation of their fertile eggs, though. I only know that they are used throughout the world today by many top sportsmen\women, in exactly the same fashion as Scottish shepherds used them when they first invented golf.....Has anyone ever tried an incubation chamber, or possibly buying a half dozen Titleist and extracting DNA?.....

[Tusker]

Tusker, seems to me I know you from another site where you use to make your own Coffee Buns................lol

That's entirely possible, as the great City Bakeries Coffee Bun Recipe request (I think I'll have to shorten that to CBCBR in future, as I'm a two-finger typist!) pre-dated the search for my missing Granny.

The Elusive Granny has been finally captured and locked away, thanks to the great gals and guys here on TalkScot. However, I'm sad to report that the CBCBR is still an ongoing quest, and has indeed now become an epic, along the lines of Monty Python's "Search For The Holy Grail".
(I actually considered using that title in the search for my Granny, but she wasn't really very holy -- so I didn't want to tell lies about her.)

I don't suppose you've come up with anything, by any chance? I keep hoping I'll bump into somebody who was an apprentice baker at City Bakeries, or someone who has a relative who worked there, and could point me to where I might find their recipe.

Jintyb -- You'd throw your present Coffee Buns away, if you'd tasted a City Bakeries offering! Honest! Crumbly. Dry as dust. Wee currants like bullets inside. You could knock a seagull clean oot o' the sky at a distance of twenty yards, as long as it had its back to you! They're rerr fliers y'see and could avoid thrown objects coming straight at them -- unless o' course they were momentarily blinded because the object was coming at them oot o' the sun. But that was very difficult to line up. -- Not that *I* threw objects at seagulls at any time. No, no. I'm talking about the BAD boys....

You know what???....I'm going to start another thread right now, under General Discussions, and ask everybody if they can help find the elusive CBCBR......I mean, these people are GOOD -- they found my lost Granny, didn't they?...Thanks!

[jintyb]

Tusker
So that wasn't U.F.O.s I used to see, it was U.F.C.B.C.B.
Janet

[Tusker]

Ohhhhh.....So you must have lived near some "bad boys".....