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 :)


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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
>
>
>
>
>>    '... 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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