Posted on 03/17/2006 3:29:10 PM PST by DollyCali
Oh, right, I had forgotten about that.
Sure...
I'll take talent like you have over raw beauty any day. Don't know what you look like, but I know you are intelligent and clever. Big pluses!
We've actually had much less than usual this year.
OK SN.
Gotta ask-what's up with your oddly-spelled taglines?
I'm not stupid either, except for sometimes.
And what about that little pic you posted earlier? Shall we call in the mods for that too? :-p
Ahem. What about me?
Thanks. :-)
I think I'm gonna hurl...
Oh well. I'll be in DC in the fall so I'll probably get to see some snow.
This winter really has been odd, we had ~12" one week ago and maybe 10" over last night. First snow we have had cover the grass.
He could have at least shaved his legs.
I'm going there next week.
Let me take a stab at that. I'm thinking that's Middle English, or what the English language was like WAY back centuries ago. Old English wouldn't be recognizable to us today.
My tag line is part of a Scottish lament to a man named Sgt. MacKenzie who was killed in the first world war. The song was featured in the movie "We Were Soldiers Once" with Mel Gibson.
Here it is in Scottish:
Lay me doon in the caul caul groon
Whaur afore monie mair huv gaun
Lay me doon in the caul caul groon
Whaur afore monie mair huv gaun
When they come a wull staun ma groon
Staun ma groon al nae be afraid
Thoughts awe hame tak awa ma fear
Sweat an bluid hide ma veil awe tears
Ains a year say a prayer faur me
Close yir een an remember me
Nair mair shall a see the sun
For a fell tae a Germans gun
Lay me doon in the caul caul groon
Whaur afore monie mair huv gaun
Lay me doon in the caul caul groon
Whaur afore monie mair huv gaun
Whaur afore monie mair huv gaun
Here's the English translation:
Lay me down in the cold cold ground
Where before many more have gone
Lay me down in the cold cold ground
Where before many more have gone
When they come I will stand my ground
Stand my ground I’ll not be afraid
Thoughts of home take away my fear
Sweat and blood hide my veil of tears
Once a year say a prayer for me
Close your eyes and remember me
Never more shall I see the sun
For I fell to a Germans gun
Lay me down in the cold cold ground
Where before many more have gone
Lay me down in the cold cold ground
Where before many more have gone
Where before many more have gone
From Moja Irlandia
A note on Sgt. MacKenzie by Willie Younie in the March 2002 issue of The Rothsian
The lament, "Sgt MacKenzie", is written and sung by Joe Kilna Mackenzie son of Maria McCabe and the late Alex McCabe of Provost Christie Drive, Rothes. Joe wrote the song in memory of his Grandfather a Moray man, from Bishopmill, who along with hundreds of other Seaforth Highlanders from the Elgin/Rothes area went to fight in the great war. Sgt Charles Stuart MacKenzie was bayoneted to death at, the age of 35, while defending one of his badly injured colleagues in the hand to hand fighting of the trenches.
Seaforth Highlanders
It is very moving and hearing it brings tears to the eyes of many people. It is a favorite bagpipe tune that is played at Scottish and Irish funerals.
Here's the link, part of the song included. Have you speakers on as it loads and plays when you go to the web site.
http://compuball.com/av/sgtmackenzie.htm
I've been wondering the same thing...
ROFLOL!
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