Could I just start by wishing all my fellow Charioteers a Good New Year? For the avoidance of doubt, this universal greeting does not constitute a discharge of my obligation to wish each and every one of you, as individuals, a GNY, as and when I first address you personally. I’ve already done a few and I know who you are if I haven’t yet.
Said obligation will persist well into the aforesaid New Year. I realise that JW alleges that there is a cut off after 7 days but he is, of course, talking total keech.
Anyhow, talking about total keech, we are moving inexorably towards THE VOTE. It’s all been a bit low key so far but it’s now starting to get interesting.
Scots humour is, perhaps, an acquired taste and I apologise if this does not work for you. Every Hogmanay, BBC Scotland does its wee bit for the night that’s in it. It used to be Rikki Fulton and ‘Scotch and Wry’. These days it’s ‘Only an Excuse’.
‘Only an Excuse’ used to be about Scottish football. Fair enough since our national game is, to be fair, a bit of a joke. This year it was still covering the same ground for the main part. Then, this sketch suddenly popped up.
Too true to be funny in some ways.
Boadicea's Chariot 
Scots humour is, perhaps, an acquired taste and I apologise if this does not work for you. Every Hogmanay, BBC Scotland does its wee bit for the night that’s in it. It used to be Rikki Fulton and ‘Scotch and Wry’. These days it’s ‘Only an Excuse’.
Sorry JM, but there is nothing amusing about Hogmanay, particularly when portrayed on television south of The Wall. I still shudder at monochrome memories of Jimmie $tewart and the White Heather Club.
OZ
An exceedingly Happy to Year to you and yours, Mr Mackie.
I cannot say that I extend the same greeting to Mr Salmond. I pray that The Vote goes the right way.
OZ, good evening and a Good New Year to you.
I’ll have you know that I came very close to not wishing you said GNY.
‘Jimmie Stewart’? Do you perchance mean Jimmy Shand and/or Andy Stewart? I don’t mind being insulted for my culture and heritage provided, of course, that those doing the insulting make at least some sort of attempt to getting close to getting their facts approximately right.
And, if you do not find Hogmanay amusing, you have clearly never been here for it, in my opinion.
Hi Ara. A Good New Year to you.
Too early to tell. I think we will vote against breaking up our country but we are a thrawn people who find it easy to take offence – I’m only just still speaking to OZ, for example.
and a very happy (individual) new year to you too from the home of South African test cricket (well. for this week anyway ;))
Square sausage? Had to Google that, have you tried it on a braai?
Good morning John,
I’m looking forward to wishing my fellow Presbyterian churchgoers a Happy New Year later this morning. We haven’t reached the fiscal cliff, I mean, the cut-off period yet.
Sneakier than the square sausage voting system I see that the SNP have seen fit to include 16 and 17 year olds in the ballot for Independence. Salmond believes he can hoover up the young vote. Luckily, Labour rags like the Daily Record have a big influence on our young. The DR is against independence.
The humour of Larry David is also an acquired taste. There was an episode of Curb your Enthusiasm that could almost have been written for you. It was called “The Smiley Face.” Larry, like yourself, is not fond of the happy emoticon and sees it being used everywhere. “What are they going to be in newspapers soon?” Larry asks, “Unemployment drops, smiley face?”
Later on in the show Larry’s new girlfriend tells him her father died two years ago and Larry says nothing. She expected him to say sorry.
Larry: With all due respect, don’t you think the sorry window is closed on that?
Heidi: The sorry window? I didn’t know there was a sorry window.
Larry: Two years and still getting sorrys? I don’t think so. That’s a long time for sorrys.
Heidi: I don’t think so.
Larry: That’s like saying “Happy New Year” in October.
JM, thank you from us both. We wish you a GNY too. Andy Stewart, yes. there are some English icons I find hard to be proud of too.
Happy New Year to you and yours, Mr Mackie. I am trusting you and your fellow countrymen to boot Wee Eck very firmly up his over-large backside when the time comes!
Found this
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