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Spitting in the heart of midlothian
SomeMuppet Started conversation May 7, 2003
Hi,
Sorry it took a while to get round to answering this question but the practice of spitting in the Heart of midlothian dates back to the time when the tolbooth, prison and public executions took place on the site and the criminals spitting as they walked past.
(Just in case you are that interested since I had to do a web search to verify (I thought it was spitting at the criminals so I've learned something new too 
) here are a couple of reference sites
http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/features/featurefirst8035.html
or you could go to this one with a writer that obviously did no research (I'm actually quite impressed he knew Hearts and H*bs were from Edinburgh and you'll need to scroll down to the bottom)
http://www.mad.co.uk/scotland/story.aspx
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