Great Scottish Inventions

[Mark_Wallace]

Hardly surprising. I mean, whether you live in the Highlands or on the Glens, there's bugger all to do but look out at the heather (which is a particularly nasty plant), so you either turn inward and think great, inventive thoughts, or you turn outward to bonnie lasses.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

[Mark_Wallace]

That's because they've just received a fresh batch of fried Mars bars from China.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

[OriginalGriff]

Whereas here in Wales, we just turn inward and think great, inventive thoughts about bonnie lasses.

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

[Mark_Wallace]

You typoed "Lassies". Lasses don't herd sheep for you.

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[CBadger]

So who invented the bagpipes[^] then? :rolleyes:

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[chriselst]

Wasn't that the Italians (or earlier versions thereof)?

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

[Nagy Vilmos]

And there's more[^]!

[CBadger]

Must have been BoB in around 1 000 BC A :beer: to :bob:

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[GenJerDan]

Dicki? Seriously?

We won't sit down. We won't shut up. We won't go quietly away. YouTube and My Mu[sic], Films and Windows Programs, etc.

[Keith Barrow]

That was my first though, someone had fun naming that...

Alberto Brandolini:

The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.

[chriselst]

Another species of the same type found in China is chuandongensis, and that was discovered by a man named Wang.

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

[PhilLenoir]

Quote:

You typoed "Lassies".

Possibly not, this might be OG's pack of pimps?

Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.

[GuyThiebaut]

And roads...

"The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England!"

Samuel Johnson

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”

― Christopher Hitchens

[Mark_Wallace]

GuyThiebaut wrote:

"The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England!"

Samuel Johnson

Dr. Johnson pros A Dictionary of the English Language -- one of the funniest books ever written (even funnier than the Websters). "I do so love a good laugh, and he always delivers!" (Wallace, 2014) Dr. Johnson cons Didn't know the difference between "scotchman" and "Scotsman" -- yet another reason why the task of compiling a dictionary should never have been placed in his hands.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!