Burns Night Ideas ?

[joggerjayne]

I'm after a few ideas for Burns Night. I'm doing lunch on the Sunday.

Food, games, etc.

DT has mentioned flaming Drambuies. Is that a thing? They sound great.

Scottish charades ... books and films connected with Scotland?

And I'm going to do the "Topless Celebrities" game. You get pictures of loads of famous people, and crop off heir heads and shoulders, and the teams have to identify the bodies and legs from a list of names. I've got lots of famous Scottish men, but can't think of many women. Any ideas?

Oh, and whiskies. I was going to do Haggis as the first course, with maybe four shot glasses of malt whiskies on each place. I have some bottles of scotch whisky, maybe twenty or so, but I don't drink them, so I'm not sure how to pick four that are different from each other. I know there are peaty ones, and not peaty ones.

All ideas that I could pinch from your own Burns things would be welcome.

[Cloverjo]

For the Scottish women, how big a celebrity do you want them to be? I can only think of Judy Murray, Ashley Jensen and Liz McColgan, at the moment.

[DTCwordfan]

Schooner glasses, JJ, full with Drambuie, wet the lips with something, light the top and down in one, with the flame in the glass. The trick is to keep it pouring down the throat in one - failure to do so is catastrophic! An ex University of St Andrews Burns Night and St Andrews night tradition.

Women - Susan Boyle, Sally Magnusson, Princess Anne (Pres of the Scottish RFU),

Beer - find some Belhaven, it's a lovely drop, very creamy.

Cullen Skink, (a thick Scottish soup made of smoked haddock, potatoes and onions. An authentic Cullen skink will use finnan haddie...) Arbroath Smokies, The Haggis, Cranachan for dessert, Scottish Cheeses etc - nab Voddie for a few other ideas

[joggerjayne]

Well, they need to be people whom everyone knows, I suppose.

I've got Lulu, Eve Muirhead and Rhona Martin, Lorraine Kelly, Susan Boyle, Annnie Lennox, Mary Queen of Scots, and Professor McGonagall.

[joggerjayne]

Cranachan?

(Googles ...)

[joggerjayne]

My best "topless" men so far are ...

Mr McGregor (from Peter Rabbit), Groundskeeper Willie (from The Simpsons), Tam o'Shanter, and Scotty from Star Trek.

[DTCwordfan]

Cranachan - very traditional...Ginger whisky cake goes well, well-laced with the hooch, naturally.

[DTCwordfan]

Desperate Dan perhaps.... Doctor Finlay.

[joggerjayne]

Desperate Dan? Was he Scottish? Brilliant!

[joggerjayne]

We're there any Scottish characters in Viz magazine?

[Slapshot]

JJ if you're stuck drop me an email [email protected]

[joggerjayne]

ok, slappy

I see Sharon is back again.

Don't suppose she's Scottish? No, isn't she Dutch?

[Slapshot]

She is indeed

[DTCwordfan]

proof, JJ, about DD

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1446045.stm

[mallyh]

you could adapt the balloon game where you have two teams and have to pass the balloon along the line only using your chin ..... you could use a haggis lol

[joggerjayne]

Golly, thanks DT ... that's a great one. x

[joggerjayne]

The haggis balloon game?

:0)

[DTCwordfan]

Identifying partner's knees when blindfolded is always fun when half cut, JJ, use a tartan scarf for the blindfold and a couple of haggises available as accessories!

[sandyRoe]

You could use this chap in the topless celebrities game. John Brown, reputed to be Victoria's bosom companion in her later years.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/John_Brown_(_Queen_Victorias's_servant).jpg

[joggerjayne]

John Brown as in the Billy Connelly movie?

[joggerjayne]

!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was just image searching for pictures of Desperate Dan.

And I got this ...

http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/02/36/89/f2/desperate-dan-pie.jpg

So talk me through how that nearest ... err "protrusion" ... looks like a cow horn.

As opposed to ...