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MM & KM Links January 2008 [Week 4]
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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?
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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?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.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
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
Hi x ray have a taste of haggis and i am sure you will be fine
http://www.worldonaplate.org/photos/uncategorized/ haggis2.jpg
http://www.worldonaplate.org/photos/uncategorized/ haggis2.jpg
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).
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
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
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.
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.