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To: Bella_Bru
C'mon, explain your handle... Out with it.

chookter:

phonetic spelling of 'teuchter'. A mildly derogatory nickname for Scots Highlanders used in the lowlands of Scotland--Kind of like 'Redneck' over here.

It's a nickname I picked up in Glasgow because I'm big and blonde and of celto-nordic descent. A lot of the highlanders are actually of scandinavian stock and look different than the smaller lowland Scots.

Hence:

"Aye, yer a bluidy teuchter, ye are!"

I'm listening to 'Floodland' right now and drinking a dram of Oban Scotch....

460 posted on 01/18/2002 7:57:23 PM PST by Cogadh na Sith
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To: chookter
I'm listening to 'Floodland' right now and drinking a dram of Oban Scotch....

You're going to hell for that, you know.....

heh heh heh heh

480 posted on 01/18/2002 8:25:38 PM PST by Tennessee_Bob
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