YES!!! The "I'm so happy" thread. 2009

[Carol Shaw]

Many of us are not as young as we were... or would like to be, but the elderly can still get out and about..... look at this photo I was just sent...
For all who appreciate the outdoors . . .

the rarely photographed

South Florida Squirrel.

Retired!   

Obviously not an SRGC member 

[Ulla Hansson]

Maggi, just the way I feel (I have inflammation in a
knee)
Ulla

[Maggi Young]

Obviously not an SRGC member

Well, I don't know..... could be some of us.....but one local member, already the owner of two new hips, now has a new shoulder, too..... you would never know to see her though... looks about twenty and paddles her own canoe!

[Maggi Young]

Maggi, just the way I feel (I have inflammation in a
knee)
Ulla

 Ih dear, Ulla.... but I hope you are wearing stronger shoes than the squirrel??

[Ulla Hansson]

O yes, I do, but no necklace.
Ulla

[TC]

Here's the Scottishness test:

This should be the Glasgowness test

Two Glasgow matrons on the sea front at Largs looking at a gentleman attired in a double-breasted blazer, white flannels and a naval cap.

They enquire thus:- ( with apologies to Bud Neill )

Yaffayat? Whityatyaffa -

The weather of the past weeks reminded me of one of his well known poems

Winters come, the snow has fell
Wee Josie's nose is froze as well
Wee Josie's frozen nose is skintit
Winters diabolic, intit?

I doubt that few of our forumists will be able to translate the phonetics of pure Glesga.  When I hear some locals from Aberdeen or Buchan I am somewhat bemused.
Our overseas members will probably have to sit this one out !

[David Nicholson]

Tom it took a little working out but then I got it

[TC]

David

For further courses in God's own tongue, Google Stanley Baxter and Parliamo Glasgow !!

[Lesley Cox]

Tom it took a little working out but then I got it

You'd better enlighten me David.

[Paddy Tobin]

Got it, Tom.

Lesley, You off a yacht? Which yacht you off of?

Paddy

[Anthony Darby]

Yeh man!

 Not long before we'll be saying:

Spring is sprung,
the sun is riz.
I wonder where the burdies is?

[ian mcenery]

Yeh man!

 Not long before we'll be saying:

Spring is sprung,
the sun is riz.
I wonder where the burdies is?

Some say the buid is on the wing
but that's absaid the wing is on the buid 

[maggiepie]

The weather of the past weeks reminded me of one of his well known poems

Winters come, the snow has fell
Wee Josie's nose is froze as well
Wee Josie's frozen nose is skintit
Winters diabolic, intit?

I doubt that few of our forumists will be able to translate the phonetics of pure Glesga.  When I hear some locals from Aberdeen or Buchan I am somewhat bemused.
Our overseas members will probably have to sit this one out !

I have no problems with this, thought it was ozspeak haha!!

[gote]

I found Ox-tail in the supermarket a couple of days ago.
Yesterday we had real oxtail soup
Göte

[Lesley Cox]

Thank you Paddy. I hadn't associated Glasgow with the yachting fraternity (nothing less than Americas Cup here) and (probably) to my shame I don't know Bud Neil.

Another look at the posts suggests that Bud Neil wrote Anthony's little ditty? I DO recognize that, so apparently the connections in my brain are disintegrating. Knew the verse but not who was responsible. Usually the Scottishspeak leaves me unfazed.