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To: rmlew

That’s because the best of the Scots emigrated to the US long ago.


23 posted on 07/15/2012 4:34:09 PM PDT by packrat35 (Admit it! We are almost ready to be called a police state!)
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To: packrat35
That’s because the best of the Scots emigrated to the US long ago.

They got thrown out in the Highland clearances to make pastures for sheep owned by English lords.

33 posted on 07/15/2012 6:25:31 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The meek shall not inherit the Earth)
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To: packrat35
I started a pretty good fight with those words in a Glasgow pub a few years back. As a Wallace, my time in Scotland was equal parts joy and bitter disappointment... and a couple of good scuffles.
35 posted on 07/15/2012 6:43:37 PM PDT by Uriah_lost (Is there no balm in Gilead?....MiE (Mainer in Exile))
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