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Was Panorama the biggest load of keich to come out of Glasgow since the s@*t barges stopped sailing down the Clyde?



PS Up Socky and doon Buckie could be a kleenex-challenged, east end teenager's idea of a great afternoon

...hmm now that I think about it, why should they have all the fun?

Doon Buckie is most appropriate,in more ways than one!There's a fair rise in that pert o' the toon and more so if you start from the Clydeside Always nicer on the descent I have found
Reminded me of some jokes I have heard in the past.Most likely the first one is 'The Big Yins' but I'm sure he wont mind if I give my own version.PC Mc Glumpher apprehends a drunken youth after seeing him smashing a shop window.He then takes out his notebook, and grabs the startled vandal by the neck and frogmarches him into Bath Street,because he couldn't spell Sauchiehall Street!
Two lions are walking down Sauchiehall Street and one turns to the other and says,'A thoat you said it would be busier on a Setterday Efternin!'

Thank you all for your input here. My friend's party was last night and the quiz was a roaring success, even though I didn't have any prizes forthe winners. In fact, I don't even know who won!

The Glasgow questions were great for the visitors (her brother and sister from Glasgow with spouses) who would otherwise have been at a disadvantage in a German environment.

The questions on 1955 - the year of her birth - also caused a lot of head-scratching, discussion and fun!

Glad it went well. Sounds like a fun night was had by Scots and Deutschlanders alike.

Yup - we had drinks at her house and went to a very posh restaurant (which is only about 50 yards from her door). There were about 25 of us at the table. We had a set meal - utterly delicious. While we had ordered our drinks and were waiting for the first course, I handed out the quiz sheets for people to ponder over.

I announced the answers when the salad plates had been cleared away, but forgot to ask how many points anyone had got. Perhaps it was better that way. I also had a printout of all the notes I'd cut and pasted for the "1955" part of the quiz, which was very much in demand.

The crowing event of the evening was a band of pipers which her husband had organised and who came and played a few favourites (2 bagpipe players and a drummer - don't ask me what tartan they were wearing). They came before the dessert and marched in playing "Scotland the Brave" and also played "Happy Birthday".

The landlady of the restaurant (which is also an hotel) was most amenable and the staff were extremely friendly.

After dinner we went back to their house for coffee, but we couldn't manage any birthday cake. I had also re-written a song in her honour and we sang that for her. I had been trying to think of a song - and a catch phrase to use in it - all week but only came up with one while we were eating dinner, so we sang from my scrawl on the back of the quiz answer sheet.

Her name is Susan and I had various songs with variations on the name but couldn't think of anything (probably because I was trying too hard with "If you knew Susie like I know Susie, Oh, Oh, Oh what a gal" - and then found out none of us knew the tune properly.

So we stayed on safe ground and did our own version of "Wake up Little Susie" by the Everly Brothers and she was very touched that we'd done it. Her name is definitely not Susie, but there are very few with "Susan".

I had thrown out:

Oh Susanna
Suzanne (Leonard Cohen - )
I'm sorry Suzanne (Hollies)
My Name's not Susan (Whitney Houston?)

etc etc.

Her brother had made her a compilation CD of Scottish songs (from the Proclaimers to Marillion, plus some bagpipes and a whole mix of other Scottish music) which we listened to. The Irish in the company were arguing at nearly every song that they were Irish songs really, so we had a good laugh when these arguments got a bit ridiculous.

After all that, we left at about 2.30 this morning.

Sorry to bore you with it all, but it was such a lovely evening.

"I announced the answers when the salad plates had been cleared away"

I hope the chef didn't find deep fried lettuce too unusual a request

He probably wouldn't have done, but we didn't have any. In fact the visitors from "abroad" (Scotland and New Zealand) were most impressed with the salads. Deep Fried Mars Bars was a favourite topic of conversation though. Although none present had actually eat one.

Not boring at all, TC. I enjoyed reading about the 'do'.

I think the Deep Fried Mars Bar is an urban myth, never having met anyione who's eaten one.

I have actually seen pizzas being deep fried though. My arteries begin to clog at the mere thought!

I have eaten a deep-fried mars bar! In ...

Totnes, South Devon I always thought they were Scottish in origin. If, then, they are an urban myth, clearly someone running a chippie in the southwest of England never quite worked that out and decided to make them a reality.

(The answer to the next question is - pretty unpleasant, frankly. In other words, for 'eaten' read 'had a bite of'. They were also doing deep-fried bananas. Those weren't good either)

I've never met anyone who has eaten a giraffe, but I still believe in them.

Woman I work with has tried a deep-fried Mars Bar. I reckon it could only improve them, but have never been drunk enough to try one.

Deep fried bananas are brilliant. Besides, aren't the health police always telling us to eat more fruit?

Yeah! I love my banana fritters!

The Deep Fried Mars Bar is no myth. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4103415.stm Can't say I have had one myself but both pizza and banana stick in my memory as being grand.

Yeah! Marillion (though they are not scottish and the only scottish member left about 15 years ago - oooops, sorry, I've just come back from being brainwashed at Marillicon! )

Deep fries Mars Bars are disgusting, but deep fried bananas are the tops - especially when served with warm golden syrup or honey.

Zantic - I will NOT become a Marillion sad sack (repeat 100 times and hand in tomorrow morning)