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Meet John Smeaton: One Kick and He Is The Hero of Glasgow [Kicked Terrorist Butt]
Wall Street Journal Online ^
| 07/07/07
| ALISTAIR MACDONALD and IAN MCDONALD
Posted on 07/07/2007 1:37:47 PM PDT by Enchante
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To: elhombrelibre
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posted on
07/07/2007 5:49:26 PM PDT
by
elhombrelibre
(Democrats even want foreign terrorists to be treated like US citizens. Their love is misplaced.)
To: Viking2002
A good, old-fashioned, literal Scottish ass-kicking. Close enough old sport! An earlier article had The Greatest Headline Of All Time: "I kicked him so hard in the balls that I tore a tendon!"
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posted on
07/07/2007 7:14:13 PM PDT
by
jiggyboy
(Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
To: jiggyboy
"I kicked him so hard in the balls that I tore a tendon!" ROTFLMAO I just had beef goulash shoot out my nose, thinking about how hard that must have been. LOL :-) I don't know if it's the wine, or a late weekend evening, but that is a funny image.
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posted on
07/07/2007 7:19:07 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
(Fred in '08. Deal with it.)
To: Viking2002
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posted on
07/07/2007 7:23:31 PM PDT
by
jiggyboy
(Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
To: mware
You mean he won’t be having any more kids, or the ones he has will have two heads ;-)
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posted on
07/07/2007 7:28:19 PM PDT
by
RobbyS
( CHIRHO)
To: jiggyboy
LOL I guess when you're the Muzzie equivalent of Bananas Foster, a shot in the ol' applesack doesn't register very high on the 'ouch' meter. LOL
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posted on
07/07/2007 7:38:04 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
(Fred in '08. Deal with it.)
To: Enchante
There is also a picture of Osama bin Laden with the caption: "You told me John Smeaton was off on Saturdays!" Achmed replied, "NO! I told you, 'John Smeaton is always ready to go off on Saturdays'."
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posted on
07/07/2007 8:26:45 PM PDT
by
ApplegateRanch
(Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
To: AnAmericanMother
“Sam Johnson wouldve clobbered him one.”
Perhaps, though it is unlikely that Sam would have been stupid enough to make the crack about “oats for horses”.
To: UKRaddell
Ping
And you say he’s a Rangers’ fan. H’way the lads.
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posted on
07/07/2007 11:43:25 PM PDT
by
IslandJeff
(Bird bird bird, bird is the word)
To: JerseyHighlander
Matching J&S silver chains were purchased. Two Biggy Smalls rectangular faced perpetual motion Cartiers with diamond-encrusted wristbands were impatiently pointed at and duly wrapped. Fingers were clicked; handfulls of baseball caps were dropped into a groaning plastic bag. English writing English is just sublime. Even their worst writers (Martin Amis, et al) can still turn a phrase.
[However, we Yanks would use "handsful", rather than "handfulls"]
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posted on
07/07/2007 11:54:55 PM PDT
by
IslandJeff
(Bird bird bird, bird is the word)
To: Enchante
His message to terrorists: "You come to Glasgow, we don't stand for it," he says. "We'll just set aboot ye." I just LOVE a thick Scottish burr!!
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posted on
07/08/2007 9:25:41 AM PDT
by
SuziQ
To: AnAmericanMother
LOL!! Who wrote that poem?
The first time I ever heard of Cockney rhyming slang was when I read the Dick Francis novel, "Driving Force". Highly amusing, and requires thought to get to the meaning sometimes.
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posted on
07/08/2007 9:32:24 AM PDT
by
SuziQ
To: Blue_Ridge_Mtn_Geek
Sam DID make the crack about oats -- he was the man who made it originally. I believe it's in his famous Dictionary, as the definition of OATS - "A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people."
He was notoriously anti-Scot, but if he knew you he would always make an exception. Boswell, his autobiographer, was a Scotsman and a close friend, but he had to put up with a certain amount of anti-Caledonian sniping.
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posted on
07/08/2007 10:24:23 AM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
To: SuziQ
Oh, man, though, that is heavy, heavy Glaswegian. Even other Scots have some difficulty understanding it. A lady in the Country Dance Society is from Glasgow, so I at least have some experience listening to it!
I guess the terrorists flambe' just didn't understand that you do not mess with a Keelie. They are hard, tough little men who don't need any encouragement to "get tore in!"
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posted on
07/08/2007 10:31:12 AM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
To: SuziQ
The poem is circulating on the internet anonymously, maybe the author will come forward.
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posted on
07/08/2007 10:32:11 AM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
To: Enchante
I would translate “set aboot ye” not so much as “decking” somebody, as with a single punch, but more along the lines of administering a thorough beating with head butts (the usual opening gambit in a Glasgow free-for-all) kicks and punches until the recipient stops moving . . . .
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posted on
07/08/2007 10:34:30 AM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
To: Viking2002
Hey, Bananas Foster
tastes good!
Maybe the muzzie equivalent of one of those flaming paper bags bad boys leave on doorsteps?
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posted on
07/08/2007 10:36:14 AM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
To: AnAmericanMother
Sam DID make the crack about oats — he was the man who made it originally. I believe it’s in his famous Dictionary, as the definition of OATS - “A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.”
He was notoriously anti-Scot, but if he knew you he would always make an exception. Boswell, his autobiographer, was a Scotsman and a close friend, but he had to put up with a certain amount of anti-Caledonian sniping.
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I thought better of him; not only making a stupid remark but going into print with it. Oh well, even Jove nods, e.g., David Hume, a non-stupid man by most accounts (and a Scot) had similarly stupid views about non-whites.
To: IslandJeff
Ooooo, I could really start an internecine brawl here by shouting, 'moan then, ye orange . . .'
But I wouldn't do that. Hat's off to Rangers supporters today.
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posted on
07/08/2007 10:39:00 AM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
To: Blue_Ridge_Mtn_Geek
It was just Dr. Sam's schtick. I'm part Scottish on both sides, and some Irish (he didn't think much of the Irish either), and I've never held it against him. Neither did Bozzie. Dr. Johnson was a highly eccentric man (suffering as he did from both de la Tourette's and OCD) and I for one am willing to cut him a good deal of slack.
You have to understand, as far as Hume is concerned, that most people in England (and especially Scotland) had never even SEEN a non-white person. His remarks were purely theoretical, not personal.
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posted on
07/08/2007 10:42:05 AM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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