Re: not Celts - North Britons
Jim Rovira (jrovira@juno.com)
Thu, 24 Jun 1999 17:20:08 -0400
I'd rather be Celt or Irish than a West Briton any day :)
Jim Rovira
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On Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:39:28 -0400 (EDT) kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca (Paul
Kennedy) writes:
>Glenlivet, Scottie, is 100% Canadian (check the flag they fly outside
>the
>distillery....) for which fact I humbly apologize....
>
>Lagavulin is another matter (and more, I would have thought, to your
>elevated tastes....)
>
>But I'll reply at greater length tomorrow, after I've attended my
>daughter's
>graduation from Grade 8....
>
>Cheers, (with some fluid from Islay.... and certainly nothing
>less--let
>alone that abomination called Glenlivet!)
>
>Paul
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>> '... I guess it's the Scots/Irish in me. [.....] Hugh Maclennan
>> .... once penned a line I almost live by:
>> "To be a Celt is never to be far from tears" ...'
>>
>> I'm only too familiar with the Irish predeliction for
>> sodden touchy-feeliness but I do wish Paul would refrain
>> from tainting my own people by association with it.
>>
>> A Scot sheds tears in only two situations: when he sees
>> yet another ship load of bog trotters arriving at the
>> Broomielaw from Dublin; & when he watches his last bottle
>> of Glenlivet sliding off the table & smashing on the floor
>> of the croft.
>>
>> Scottie B.
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