caz 0 #1 January 30, 2004 especially for you scots out there... http://holistech.co.uk/haggis.php ~~~ London Skydivers ~~~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
batbex 0 #2 January 30, 2004 Caz! no wonder so many tourists arrive up here and actually think that a haggis is a small furry mammal! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
caz 0 #3 January 30, 2004 isn't it a small furry mammal???!! ~~~ London Skydivers ~~~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkydiveMonkey 0 #4 January 30, 2004 It WAS a furry mammal ____________________ Say no to subliminal messages Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #5 January 30, 2004 EEEEwwwwww......I was talking with some Scotsmen and a couple women from Wales the other day. They kept going on about how great Haggis is........Where's the PUKE icon!? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkydiveMonkey 0 #6 January 30, 2004 You've eaten McDonalds / Burger King haven't you? ____________________ Say no to subliminal messages Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
caz 0 #7 January 30, 2004 yeah, its like the British so called delicacy of black pudding. I mean did someone years back go 'you know what i think would taste great? congealed blood' ??! yuck yuck yuck. ~~~ London Skydivers ~~~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
batbex 0 #8 January 30, 2004 rotflmao! harsh - but fair Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #9 January 30, 2004 Quote You've eaten McDonalds / Burger King haven't you? Yeah but at least the sheeps stomach, hooves, and eye balls weren't recognizeable in the hamburger patty. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mr2mk1g 10 #10 January 30, 2004 My dad had me convinced for years that a Haggis was a three legged animal that ran round the top of hills in scotland. There were left legged haggises that had two long legs on the left and one short leg on the right. They ran round the peak clockwise. There were right legged haggises that had two long legs on the right and one short leg on the left. They ran round the peak anti-clockwise. Although social animals the two breads of Haggis rarely mixed due to the danger of head on collisions. I was convinced for years... what can I say, I was 4 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
batbex 0 #11 January 30, 2004 Don't exagerate - there are no hooves in haggis edited to add - I think the above is the recognised definition of a haggis in many a tourist book/ fireside yarn Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ScottishJohn 25 #12 January 30, 2004 och , thats a great wee game. Shame they keep running aff the target---------------------------------------------------------------------- If you think my attitude stinks you should smell my fingers Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
miked10270 0 #13 January 30, 2004 Hmmm.... Never seen Haggi fired from a catapult before! Then again, I suppose the proper way to hurl haggis (like throwing the english hammer - but holding the downhill side legs for extra range) would be far too hard to simulate. Now. I don't want to stir up controversy but... WARM, FRESHLY congealed pigs blood mixed with a little pepper IS an English delicacy. Nuthin' to do with Scots... Our idea of a delicacy is a chocolate bar (Mars / Snickers) coated in batter and deep fried. And we defy ANYONE, even Homer Simpson to come up with a better aperitif before dining on fresh caught wild haggis. Now. About Haggis. There's actually 3 types of Haggis: Firstly there's the genuine wild haggis. They evolved on the Scottish mountainsides and in true darwinian fashion did evolve with long legs on the right (downhill) side and short legs on the left (uphill) side. There is no record of there being 2 breeds, one with the legs reversed, but it is possible that the mythical "reverse leg" breed became extinct due to it having a thinner skull thus losing out in the head on collision scenario (but I digress). Wild haggis is a bugger to catch! because of their legs they can run around the hillside fast as feck. The highland terrier was bred to look like a clump of heather that suddenly erupts into barking and snarling specifically to catch haggis. What you do is first peg out nets at the bottom of the heather covered slope, then send the highland terrier up the hill, where it just looks like a wee clump of heather. Around comes the haggis and suddenly this "wee clump of heather" jumps up and starts barking and snarling at the haggis. Of course the haggis turns around the other way to escape and suddenly finds that it's short legs are now on the downhill side. It rolls down the hill into the nets - easy catch and kill. As I've said, GENUINE, WILD Haggis is now VERY rare. We blame the english landowners with their shotguns for this! There's factory farmed haggis available but because they're kept on level ground the legs are all the same length. Some unscrupulous haggis breeders actually cut the legs off and try to pass the resultant carcass off as wild haggis. Thirdly, there's all those bits of sheep that are strictly speaking inedible (even deep fried in batter) all wrapped in a sheep's stomach. We sell that to tourists! Now OK... I know the whole wild haggis thing sounds a bit far fetched... But ask yourself this: Are all you wonderful people going to believe Batbex; a self confessed student at St.Andrews University, where the degrees are printed on softer, more absorbent paper? Or are you going to believe pillars of the community such as me and NacMacFeegle? I hope that the answer won't take long. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkymonkeyONE 4 #14 January 30, 2004 THat was fun, but fairly difficult to get a good score at. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Slappie 9 #15 January 30, 2004 Quoteespecially for you scots out there... http://holistech.co.uk/haggis.php Hey this reminds me of Slappie Slingshot!! Cept you don't break anything "Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SpeedRacer 1 #16 January 31, 2004 130! Speed Racer -------------------------------------------------- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkydivingNurse 0 #17 January 31, 2004 Groundskeeper Willie would approve! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
batbex 0 #18 February 1, 2004 QuoteAre all you wonderful people going to believe Batbex; a self confessed student at St.Andrews University, where the degrees are printed on softer, more absorbent paper? Hey! I resent that, I jump at St. Andrews I don't study there (Edinburgh University, where the degrees actually come on laminated paper - no expense spared!) and all I said was that Haggis don't have hooves in them - which I think you'll find they don't, and that tourists think they are furry mammals - which I think you'll find they do. I in no way dispute your wonderful explanation for Haggi. I'd just like to interject at this point to remind you that as the wild species are now endangered, hunting them has become illegal (though they do taste better wild ) and also that the RSPCHT (royal society for the protection against cruelty to highland terriers) have recently initiated a new push to stop the gross exploitation of these poor terriers. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,146 #19 February 1, 2004 Quote I in no way dispute your wonderful explanation for Haggi. . I'd like to dispute your pluralization of "haggis". It ain't a Latin noun. The Romans conquered the entire civilized world, which, of course, omits Scotland. Ate my first haggis in 1968. It wasn't until my third haggis (1998) that I actually threw up afterwards (although I suspect the 1/2 bottle of Scotch had something to do with it too).... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
