Scene from The Blood Donor; goes something like this:
Nurse: Dr. McTavish will see you now, Mr Hancock.
Hancock: McTavish! Oh, he's Scottish! That's all right then. Wonderful doctors, the Scots.
(entering doctor's surgery) Hoots, mon! It's a braw bricht moonlicht nicht, the noo! Och, aye!
Doctor: (superior English public school drawl) Good morning, Mr. Hancock. Do take a seat.
Hancock: Oh... sorry for dropping into the vernacular like that; the nurse said you were Scottish.
Doctor: Yes, but we can't all be Rob Roys, can we?
I've just run the musings of The Lord of the Flies through the text-to-sound converter of WavePad
(see http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display.php/4350) to hear what "authentic" Glaswegian sounds like. If my old dog could gargle that would be a fair approximation to what WavePad produced
Trevor
Groan - I wish I hadn't started this thread. Musings indeed, Trevor. One of my mates just got his PhD so we were celebrating very severely yesterday, so the initial posts were very Champagne-fuelled. Sorry guys...
...well, at least it has provided some entertainment for youse.
I thought that was Guinness and cider or was that "Black and Tan"?
When I was a lad, I used to try all sorts of combinations which were "guaranteed" to get you p-ssed cheaply. One particular combination was heavy, barleywine and cider. If there was no barley wine, a "wee heavy" sufficed. Danny will remember the Wee Heavy-- the wee Glescae wimmen used to drink it before shouting "Hey Jimmy, Gie us ten guitars". I don't know if you can still buy it these days.
To us, the guinness and cider was known as 'poor man's black velvet'. The rich man's version is more effective, though possibly not more cost-effective.
The cheapest we ever got drunk was on Ricard (a poor man's ouzo?), cider and blackcurrant; 51p (in 1977) got me drunk as a skunk; I can't remember what that disgusting concoction was called.
In my misspent youth, local landlords wouldn't serve 'snakebite' (half bitter, half cider), as it had the reputation of getting you most *fighting* drunk, so afficionados had to get inventive in their ordering of halves for mixing later.
I was working in South Shields docks once when a scaffolder introduced me to "Blastaway".
A pint glass filled with a bottle of "Castaway" and a bottle of something like Electric White. A couple of those felt good but your legs went all wobbly when you got off the bar stool.
Can of White Lightning and 2 slugs of Benolyn - that even beats Lord of the Dannys!
Yes, aside from cider, the Saracen Head in Glasgow's Gallowgate was an excellent purveyor of what they called 'lighter fuel' - it was served in measures from a bottle containing a mixture of wine and whisky - I think it was called 'Wham's Dram'
Whaes like us?
Whaes like us?
Scots, Irish, Manx, Welsh?
I know for a fact that the new world progeny are not the same.
# Posted on September 7th 2004 by Rudall the time
Re: Whaes like us?
They're not as smart, and they're uglier too??? ... something like that?
"Sameness" is easily hidden behind cultural norms, accents, skin colour, and so on...
# Posted on September 7th 2004 by grego
Re: Whaes like us?
Och, nae probs, Noo Ah'm probly comin' oot wi pesh. Am efter suppin wi lads wae hid a' kinna barse ackward theories.
Bee-de-bee...
# Posted on September 7th 2004 by Rudall the time
Re: Whaes like us?
Yaes be talln ma daaffrnt? Wae?
# Posted on September 7th 2004 by Rudall the time
Re: Whaes like us?
Oh, I see. G'night Danny.
# Posted on September 7th 2004 by grego
Re: Whaes like us?
Damn few an ther a' deid
# Posted on September 7th 2004 by Bren
Re: Whaes like us?
Scene from The Blood Donor; goes something like this:
Nurse: Dr. McTavish will see you now, Mr Hancock.
Hancock: McTavish! Oh, he's Scottish! That's all right then. Wonderful doctors, the Scots.
(entering doctor's surgery) Hoots, mon! It's a braw bricht moonlicht nicht, the noo! Och, aye!
Doctor: (superior English public school drawl) Good morning, Mr. Hancock. Do take a seat.
Hancock: Oh... sorry for dropping into the vernacular like that; the nurse said you were Scottish.
Doctor: Yes, but we can't all be Rob Roys, can we?
# Posted on September 7th 2004 by MPM
Re: Whaes like us?
I've just run the musings of The Lord of the Flies through the text-to-sound converter of WavePad
(see http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display.php/4350) to hear what "authentic" Glaswegian sounds like. If my old dog could gargle that would be a fair approximation to what WavePad produced
Trevor
# Posted on September 8th 2004 by Trevor Jennings
Re: Whaes like us?
Groan - I wish I hadn't started this thread. Musings indeed, Trevor. One of my mates just got his PhD so we were celebrating very severely yesterday, so the initial posts were very Champagne-fuelled. Sorry guys...
...well, at least it has provided some entertainment for youse.
# Posted on September 8th 2004 by Rudall the time
Re: Whaes like us?
I thought that was Guinness and cider or was that "Black and Tan"?
When I was a lad, I used to try all sorts of combinations which were "guaranteed" to get you p-ssed cheaply. One particular combination was heavy, barleywine and cider. If there was no barley wine, a "wee heavy" sufficed. Danny will remember the Wee Heavy-- the wee Glescae wimmen used to drink it before shouting "Hey Jimmy, Gie us ten guitars". I don't know if you can still buy it these days.
# Posted on September 8th 2004 by Johnny Jay
Re: Whaes like us?
Jim - I might well have done last night!
John - are you thinking of the Sarry Hied?
# Posted on September 8th 2004 by Rudall the time
Re: Whaes like us?
To us, the guinness and cider was known as 'poor man's black velvet'. The rich man's version is more effective, though possibly not more cost-effective.
The cheapest we ever got drunk was on Ricard (a poor man's ouzo?), cider and blackcurrant; 51p (in 1977) got me drunk as a skunk; I can't remember what that disgusting concoction was called.
In my misspent youth, local landlords wouldn't serve 'snakebite' (half bitter, half cider), as it had the reputation of getting you most *fighting* drunk, so afficionados had to get inventive in their ordering of halves for mixing later.
# Posted on September 8th 2004 by nastyweegirl
Re: Whaes like us?
Aaah, "Ten Guitars" the Pan-Polynesian anthem.
I was working in South Shields docks once when a scaffolder introduced me to "Blastaway".
A pint glass filled with a bottle of "Castaway" and a bottle of something like Electric White. A couple of those felt good but your legs went all wobbly when you got off the bar stool.
# Posted on September 8th 2004 by Bren
Re: Whaes like us?
Can of White Lightning and 2 slugs of Benolyn - that even beats Lord of the Dannys!
Yes, aside from cider, the Saracen Head in Glasgow's Gallowgate was an excellent purveyor of what they called 'lighter fuel' - it was served in measures from a bottle containing a mixture of wine and whisky - I think it was called 'Wham's Dram'
Jim
# Posted on September 8th 2004 by Worldfiddler
Re: Whaes like us?
Yes, yes, chaps. But just to remind youse - I was gie'ing the Champagne laldy last night, I'll have youse know.
# Posted on September 8th 2004 by Rudall the time