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[Svetlana]

Happy Chinese New Year!

Lana

[Svetlana]

Happy Australia Day!

Lana

You wait for ever for an anniversary and then three come at once!

[SSBubbles]

Address To A Haggis
Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o' the puddin-race!
Aboon them a' ye tak your place,
Painch, tripe, or thairm:
Weel are ye wordy o' a grace
As lang's my arm.

The groaning trencher there ye fill,
Your hurdies like a distant hill,
Your pin wad help to mend a mill
In time o' need,
While thro' your pores the dews distil
Like amber bead.

His knife see rustic Labour dight,
An' cut you up wi' ready sleight,
Trenching your gushing entrails bright,
Like ony ditch;
And then, O what a glorious sight,
Warm-reekin, rich!

Then, horn for horn,
they stretch an' strive:
Deil tak the hindmost! on they drive,
Till a' their weel-swall'd kytes belyve,
Are bent lyke drums;
Then auld Guidman, maist like to rive,
"Bethankit!" 'hums.

Is there that owre his French ragout
Or olio that wad staw a sow,
Or fricassee wad mak her spew
Wi' perfect sconner,
Looks down wi' sneering, scornfu' view
On sic a dinner?

Poor devil! see him ower his trash,
As feckless as a wither'd rash,
His spindle shank, a guid whip-lash,
His nieve a nit;
Thro' bloody flood or field to dash,
O how unfit!

But mark the Rustic, haggis fed,
The trembling earth resounds his tread.
Clap in his walie nieve a blade,
He'll mak it whissle;
An' legs an' arms, an' heads will sned,
Like taps o' thrissle.

Ye Pow'rs wha mak mankind your care,
And dish them out their bill o' fare,
Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware
That jaups in luggies;
But, if ye wish her gratefu' prayer,
Gie her a haggis!

I like the subtitles - nowhere near the real 'address'!

[SSBubbles]

Happy Australia Day!

Lana

You wait for ever for an anniversary and then three come at once!

[Svetlana]

Happy India Republic Day, yesterday - commemorating its transition to a Republic, having overthrown the tyranny of the Imperialist British

Lana

[CBBB]

Happy India Republic Day, yesterday - commemorating its transition to a Republic having overthrown the tyranny of the Imperialist British

Lana

They didn't know how lucky they were before!!!! Pass the Gin & Tonic!

[Svetlana]

Happy Sri Lankan Independence Day, on 4 February, commemorating its transition to a Republic, having overthrown the tyranny of the Imperialist Bri....

I shall be in Colombo to celebrate the anniversary and, God willing, just possibly, the end of the Civil War, which over 30 years has claimed 60,000 (many innocent) lives.

Lana

[CBBB]

Another ungrateful lot! More ice please.

[Svetlana]

Actually, the British did give India its too most magnificent assets: its railway system and its Civil Service - which provides gainful employment to just 17,000,000 people!

Lana

[CBBB]

Actually, the British did give India its too most magnificent assets: its railway system and its Civil Service - which provides gainful employment to just 17,000,000 people!

Lana

That is less than 2% of the population!