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Happy Burns Night


Black Knight

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to all those who celebrate it, and to those who don't (and just why do you not? eh?)

I know its late in the day but its still Burns Night

 

Someone has already put up that awful Burns joke over in the Long Jokes thread. Go look it up. I will not link to it cos its just so awful, but funny too

 

Due to these bloomin covid restrictions I couldn't get to the butchers for my Haggis nor could I go out hunting for one

 

I find my method of hunting haggis works well

I use a trebuchet

A perfectly round stone weighing a Scots 1/2 ton launched from 1.2216 miles exactly aimed to land exactly 20 feet behind the haggis just as it puts its head down to graze thistle-grass. When the stone hits the ground it causes the haggis to launch high into the air where-upon its caught by my specially bred hawk-hound and the haggis is brought back to me, stunned and surprised.

Its not polite to leave big boulders just laying around, plus they are hard to get now so I need to collect the boulder for re-use

I find this a very quick method. From first launching, through collection of the boulder to second launching and collecting the second haggis can be as quick as two days. Less time if I have half-a-dozen other drunken eejits helping me.

But alas alack, woe to me, I wasn't allowed out to take my treb up in to the Sperrins for hunting.

 

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And to you too my armoured friend!  And my your lassies sark aye by cutty 

 

One practical piece of advice. If ever asked to do a turn at a Burns night insist you say the Grace out of religious convictions. His Selkirk Grace is only four lines long

 

Sit back eat and drink job done

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Thats the Grace I always use on all occasions

It canna be bettered

 

I used to hunt haggis using long bow and arrows but I had to give that up when I got my hawk-hound.

He kept going after the arrows, catching them and bringing them back to me

daft hound!

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