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Oooh, the looks like a carousel.

A-hem! John Peel was not Scottish...

well yes, he was a North Ingerlander but the toon is Scottish innit

I don't think he means the DJ Happy

Where's the haggis?

More importantly, where's the single male malt?

Poor, poor bear. He never gets to play.

When first my brave Johnie lad came to this town,
He had a blue bonnet that wanted the crown,
But now he has gotten a hat and a feather -
Hey, brave Johnie lad, cock up your beaver!

Cock up your beaver, and cock it fu' sprush!
We'll over the border and gie them a brush:
There's somebody there we'll teach better behavior -
Hey, brave Johnie lad, cock up your beaver!

(this makes me every time I think of it, even though I know it's not actually rude at all.

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

Scottish DH has been practising the address to the haggis repeatedly ready for Burns Night tonight! I love the Scottish smileys, thank you!