MM & KM Links January 2008 [Week 4]

[gen2]

Have you all seen crofter's post below?

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Quizzes-and-Puz zles/Question512452.html

It explains why I am still overseeing the MM Links Game. I'm sure I speak for everyone when I say we all empathise with you crofter and we are sad that there is only one inevitable way the situation will be resolved. Be strong.

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This is a special day devoted to 'The Bard' (not to be confused with the 'Lesser Bard' or 'Bard of Avon'). After the grace,

Some hae meat and cannot eat.
Some cannot eat that want it:
But we hae meat and we can eat,
Sae let the Lord be thankit.

. . . and once the haggis has been piped in, I ask you to charge yor glasses with a fine malt and be upstanding for a toast:- "The Haggis!". I'll be compassionate though, and spare you the full eight verses of 'Address to a Haggis'.

'Oh yes!', I thought there was something else to mention this evening: 'This is Queen Pauline's fourth and final week on the throne for the MM Game'. Tomorrow morning Queen Pauline will challenge you to pair words with four of her own - what they are is for me to know and you to find out.

Each week has favoured different players with the result that there are four probable contenders for the February crown. However, it is still possible for an outsider to take the honours, so to be in with a chance, make sure you take part in tomorrow's game. Will it be Strix, ulysses100, Magyar or fordward? Or could it be you?

CONTINUED . . .

[gen2]

The international version of this same game is called the KM Links and kicks off somewhat earlier once the crossword clues have been solved. Look out for seekeerz from Oz who provides the entertainment, refreshments and rule of law when dealing with that parallel game. In this case, the choice of words and their links are out of our control. They are the grey words chosen by Kate Mepham in her GK Crosswords in the Daily Telegraph on Saturday and Monday!

The shrubbery is now open. Anyone not wishing to participate in the usual gossip, bribery, corruption and debauchery, should make their way to the pinetum where the 'Peatbog Faeries' are hosting a ceilidh.


Sl�inte mhath.


PS

Sassenachs may be interested in this translation:

http://www.worldburnsclub.com/poems/translatio ns/address_to_a_haggis.htm

[jan1956]

wonder if Paulines links will be to do with Burns or the Haggis?
who can play the pipes??
hope we don't get kicked out for being too noisy
jan

[x-ray]

I hope we're not going to get Scottish words - I find it difficult enough with the English ones !!!!!

[jan1956]

Hi x ray have a taste of haggis and i am sure you will be fine
http://www.worldonaplate.org/photos/uncategorized/ haggis2.jpg

[paulineward]

Is it Burns Night?...Oh!!....well let's party then! :-))

[x-ray]

Thanks Jan. I rather like haggis, I have a son who lives in Scotland and go up there ocassionally.
It must be swilled down with whisky though

[jan1956]

can't face whisky, mother in law was Scottish but sorry will stick with the wine
and the nearest I have come to a haggis was buying a tourist haggis hound (it had shorter legs on one side for running round montians)in callendar many moons ago.

[sarumite]

Evening all .. just a flying visit, or is it a flying haggis??

Have things to do, no peace for the wicked ... will be back later, so make sure there's a wee dram of the hard stuff waiting for me!!

No make that a very large dram!! (S) :O)

[evsajo]

Hello, but don't think I will be around much tonight.I haven't been sleeping very well and tonight I feel it is catching up on me so am going to have an early night. Will be around for a bit longer but not my usual midnight!!!!

[gen2]

I'm sorry to say I broke with tradition and washed down my haggis with a fine South African Pinotage (2002). I am saving the whisky to go with the bedtime crossword later this evening. Not sure which one it will be, but certainly a malt (reserved for special occasions). I'll look back in here around 10:30 to see that you are all behaving (as I'm sure you will be).

[paulineward]

Right you lot...we owe it to Crofter to party...so let's go for it!!

Any funny limeericks? Jokes etc...they can even be Scottish!!

[mazie]

My favourite

Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a panic's in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty
Wi bickering brattle!
I wad be laith to rin an' chase thee,
Wi' murdering pattle.

[Strix]

Dear gen2,

Thank you for your direction to the "translation" of the haggis dedication poem for the Sassenachs (and actually also for some Highlanders and more particularly the Islanders) . "Lallans" is a language all of its own!

I am, however, glad that you did not direct some of our more sensitive readers (whom the my mother would have called the wishy-washy peely-wally sassenachs) to to Burns' poem titled "The Flea and the Crab-Louse"!

Happy Burns Night!
Slainte
Strix

[mazie]

Rab and Mary are getting married, Rab goes down to the pub and says to his mate "I'm getting married on Saturday" his mate says "what's you Tartan" Rab say " she's wearing white like they all do"

[paulineward]

Right..finishing lines for.....

There was a young man from Scotland
Who thought he could start a rock band
He let himself down
He was thought a clown
.......................................................................?????

[paulineward]

Mazie ... first post..what?????...tanslation please!!

second post...brilliant!!! :-)))

[mazie]

First Post..

To A Mouse by Robert Burns ..Translation for Pauline

Small, sleek, cowering, timorous beast,
O, what a panic is in your breast!
You need not start away so hasty
With hurrying scamper!
I would be loath to run and chase you,
With murdering plough-staff.

[paulineward]

Right!!!

[x-ray]

JOKE

Guess who I bumped into in Specsavers yesterday.....

...................Everybody

Come on then, lets have a few jokes (keep em clean)

[mazie]

Address to a Haggis and the translation (as if it matters)

Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o' the puddin-race!
Aboon them a' ye tak your place,
Painch, tripe, or thairm:
Weel are ye wordy of a grace
As lang's my arm.

In English

Fair full your honest, jolly face,
Great chieftain of the sausage race!
Above them all you take your place,
Stomach, tripe, or intestines:
Well are you worthy of a grace
As long as my arm.