1.) DParker - 01/12/2021

MacSween Haggis is Scotland's largest producer of haggis. A while back I responded to one of their FB posts, and my response (the one with the photo showing part of my wife across the table from me) made it into one of their online ads. I'm an international celebrity now. I'll let you all know if/when spots open up in my entourage.

2.) bluecat - 01/12/2021

That's how you roll.

3.) Swamp Fox - 01/13/2021

You spelled whiskey wrong ... :wink


That's prolly why they liked it. :-)

Please tell me it hasn't been 2.5 years....Holy sheep's intestines!


What am I doing with my life?

4.) DParker - 01/13/2021

I'd ask if I can expect to be swarmed by haggis groupies, but I'm not really sure I want to know. I think that's one of them on the right.

5.) DParker - 01/13/2021

Here you go Swampy. Everything ships from their warehouse somewhere in NC. Throw your own Burns Night Supper.

[URL="https://www.scottishgourmetusa.com/category/haggis-usa"]Scottish Gourmet USA - Haggis[/URL]

6.) Swamp Fox - 01/13/2021

Nothing screams "Good times!" louder than a party where the men's skirts are shorter than the women's ...


This is not to say I am not a fan of Robert Burns.

In fact, one of his lines is in contention for my headstone:


[QUOTE][I]The best-laid schemes of mice and men
Go oft awry[/I],[/QUOTE]



Of course, I reserve the right to use some of my own poetry ... :wink .... LOL

7.) DParker - 01/13/2021

There once was a lassie from Glasgow,
Whose Mum said "Don't let your ass go.
With hips forty-three
Your life it will be
A bummer, as far as the lads go."

8.) Swamp Fox - 01/13/2021

LOL ... +36,2436

9.) Swamp Fox - 01/13/2021

Remember William Frye, the headstone guy?


I'm just going to drop this bookmark in here ....



[url]http://forums.huntingcountry.com/forums/showthread.php?2595-This-is-why-I-m-not-a-tree-hugger&highlight=headstone[/url]




Looking back, I'd clean up a few bits of my metric untidyness if I could come back in a reincarnation of HuntingCountry ...

10.) Swamp Fox - 01/13/2021

You know what's sad?


These covid lockdowns have probably driven all the haggis restaurants out of business...

11.) Swamp Fox - 01/13/2021

[QUOTE=DParker;62830]Here you go Swampy. Everything ships from their warehouse somewhere in NC. Throw your own Burns Night Supper.

[URL="https://www.scottishgourmetusa.com/category/haggis-usa"]Scottish Gourmet USA - Haggis[/URL][/QUOTE]


This is not right:


[QUOTE]We now offer a delicious vegetarian haggis, made for us exclusively here in America. Our same French sausage maker that makes our traditional lamb haggis is now making this spicy, crumbly, vegetable version of this Scottish classic. And you get the rewards - a crumbly delicious haggis made from carrots, mushrooms, onions, Scottish oats, red beans and Andrew Hamilton's special spice blend

[/QUOTE]


:tap:

12.) DParker - 01/13/2021

Yeah, most of them have taken to offering a vegetarian version...which strikes me as completely missing the point. But business is business, and you've got to try to sell to as wide an audience as you can..especially these days.

13.) Swamp Fox - 01/13/2021

Greensboro isn't that far away... If I'm over there and think about it, I should swing by and give them a strong talkin'-to ...

Maybe even rough-talk 'em to straighten them out ...

14.) Swamp Fox - 01/13/2021

I can't believe I'm gonna stick up for haggis here, but this is how they're going to win:


[QUOTE=DParker;62837]Yeah, most of them have taken to offering a vegetarian version...which strikes me as completely missing the point.[/QUOTE]



[Aside]: [QUOTE]It's symbolic of their struggle against *reality*...[/QUOTE]



:wink

15.) bluecat - 01/13/2021

Really? It's a great work of art and all but c'mon. DP can buy that huge purple elephant with one poem. Some of us slave for years with limericks, prose and haiku just to be able to 'maybe' get a squirt gun or a small ornament.


[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;62833]LOL ... +36,2436[/QUOTE]

16.) bluecat - 01/13/2021

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;62836]This is not right:


:tap:[/QUOTE]




[QUOTE]We now offer a delicious vegetarian haggis, made for us exclusively here in America. Our same French sausage maker that makes our traditional lamb haggis is now making this spicy, crumbly, vegetable version of this Scottish classic. And you get the rewards - a crumbly delicious haggis made from carrots, mushrooms, onions, Scottish oats, red beans and Andrew Hamilton's [B]spleen[/B].

[/QUOTE]

That's more like it.

17.) bluecat - 01/13/2021

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;62838]Greensboro isn't that far away... If I'm over there and think about it, I should swing by and give them a strong talkin'-to ...

Maybe even rough-talk 'em to straighten them out ...


[/QUOTE]

Hell, it was Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top!

18.) bluecat - 01/13/2021

19.) bluecat - 01/13/2021

lol, Rough talkin' really hurts their feelings though.

20.) bluecat - 01/13/2021

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;62838]Greensboro isn't that far away... If I'm over there and think about it, I should swing by and give them a strong talkin'-to ...

Maybe even rough-talk 'em to straighten them out ...


[/QUOTE]

For extra credit, count the number of teeth in the story.

21.) DParker - 01/13/2021

[QUOTE=bluecat;62840]Really? It's a great work of art and all but c'mon. DP can buy that huge purple elephant with one poem. Some of us slave for years with limericks, prose and haiku just to be able to 'maybe' get a squirt gun or a small ornament.[/QUOTE]

And I totally stole it from someone else too.

22.) Swamp Fox - 01/14/2021

[QUOTE=bluecat;62840]Really? It's a great work of art and all but c'mon. DP can buy that huge purple elephant with one poem. Some of us slave for years with limericks, prose and haiku just to be able to 'maybe' get a squirt gun or a small ornament.[/QUOTE]

Count yourself lucky.

I could have referenced Barbie's dimensions.

(Plus you need to step up your game anyway ... LOL)

23.) Swamp Fox - 01/14/2021

[QUOTE=bluecat;62842]Hell, it was Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top![/QUOTE]


LOL ....

+11 ...

24.) Swamp Fox - 01/14/2021

[QUOTE=bluecat;62845]For extra credit, count the number of teeth in the story.[/QUOTE]



You do know the news team is an anomaly and skews the norm, right?

25.) Swamp Fox - 01/14/2021

[QUOTE=DParker;62846]And I totally stole it from someone else too.[/QUOTE]

This is how one gets ahead.

Don't apologize for it ... LOL

26.) bluecat - 01/14/2021

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;62847]

(Plus you need to step up your game anyway ... LOL)[/QUOTE]


[I]Offal Behavior [/I]by bluecat

DP steals poems
He gets rewarded big time
Likes to eat organs

27.) Swamp Fox - 01/15/2021

LOL ...

+34,2636

28.) Swamp Fox - 01/15/2021

Special Kudos for the title, by the way ...

:grin:

29.) bluecat - 01/15/2021

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;62853]LOL ...

+34,2636[/QUOTE]

I'm only looking for 34,2637. It could go very bad for you if you can't find those points...

30.) Swamp Fox - 01/15/2021

Wedding cake should put you over the top ...

31.) Swamp Fox - 01/15/2021

[QUOTE][I]A Scottish Limerick [/I]
--by Swamp Fox

[I]The Scots like to brag about haggis.
But there’s a truth about offal and that is
That no matter how fine
And no matter the wine
It’s whatever yer eatin' that passes.


[/I][/QUOTE]



.....

32.) bluecat - 01/15/2021

+34,2636

Haggis poetry rocks!

33.) DParker - 01/16/2021

[QUOTE=bluecat;62860]+34,2636

Haggis poetry rocks![/QUOTE]

Yeah. It takes some guts though.

34.) Swamp Fox - 01/16/2021

I see what you did there ...


Returning to the non-Barbie scale, it's a semi-solid, slightly squishy +8.