Scottish Humour
Glasgow Dictionary
For all you visitors to our fair land, if you're wishing to visit Glasow and understand what everyones saying - this might help (sorry some are a bit rude):
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'World's Worst Poet' Has Last Laugh
by Nadine Lee
Scottish Poet William McGonagall dubbed 'world's worst'
A handwritten, unpublished work by a Scottish music hall performer known as the world's worst poet is set to fetch thousands of pounds at au...
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William McGonagall
An Unlikely Jacobite Hero
by Nadine Lee
A number of molehills have sprung up across the battlefield site at Culloden, much to the delight of a Jacobite supporters group. The Circle of Gentlemen – a Highland based Jacobite supporters socie...
The 20 Most Seen Scottish Facebook Posts
Our Facebook Group "Scottish Clans and Families" run by us over at Scotclans.com has been steadily growing for many years now and now has well over 12,000 members. In that time we have seen a hell of ...
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scottish humour
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Susan Boyle Set to Launch Tartan Range
by Nadine Lee
Donny Osmond proudly wears the tartan of Susan Boyle
Scottish classical singer Susan Boyle has announced that she is releasing her own range of Tartan. In a statement released on her website, the Bl...
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scottish register of tartans, susan boyle, Tartan
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Hanging up the Haggis
THE world’s top haggis hurler Alan Pettigrew has announced he is to quit before his 29 year old record is broken.
His world record was set in 1984 when he threw a 1lb 8oz haggis 180ft and 10in on t...
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Bus Driver Says 'Kilt Wearing Scots are Lucky'
by Nadine Lee
A bus driver in the northern Swedish town of Umea has begun wearing a skirt to work as temperatures sore past 25C. Mats Lundgren decided to find a trouser alternative when his boss turned down h...
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English Historian Claims Haggis
by Nadine Lee
An English food historian has declared Haggis as an English delicacy, claiming the Scottish origins of the dish are as “made up” as tartan. Peter Brears has described Haggis as a ‘fine English dish’ ...
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Haggis, Scotland v England, scottish food, Tartan
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Why is Scotland so.... Google Reveals All
by Nadine Lee
Internet search giant Google has revealed questions the world wants to know about Scotland, unfortunately showing rather unflattering results. The auto-complete feature imbedded in the search engine ...
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New fashion of getting a Sgian Dubh tattooed
We recently had a comment on a post about Sgian Dubhs being banned at events telling us of a new craze going across America at the moment – getting Sgian Dubhs tattooed!
This is particularly popular ...
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sgain dubh
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