Arbeiter Fraint

[lynn cates]

also . . .

Hello Maria. Saw the rest of your post. The sweater stuff is a slow go but with endless information at the people level.

My "pound of flesh" will come when this business is over and I can sleep peacefully again.

Now, back to mah haggis. (Next Tuesday is the GREATEST holiday of the year. My family jumps the gun and we do it the Friday before.)

Cheers.
LC

[mariab]

Lynn,
WOW! Amazing. Thank you so much for directing me to this. I'll look it up more carefully later tonight, need to make a phone call and take care of some work first.

[mariab]

Oh my God, haggis again?! Is next Tuesday like, not Walter Scott's birthday, but who was the other poet chap again? I'm so beat I can't recall.
(I might have fish for dinner later. With fresh spinach. Don't tell Fisherman, as he might get jealous. He's addicted to fish – and to Hutch. ;-))

[lynn cates]

Alles Gute

Hello Maria. Enjoy, and good luck.

Cheers.
LC

[lynn cates]

Rabbie Bairns

Hello Maria.

"who was the other poet chap again?"

WHHAATTT? Och, lassie, ye gie me pain! 'Tis none other but Rabbie Bairns.

Now repeat the Selkirk Grace 10 times.

Cheers.
LC

[The Grave Maurice]

Now, back to mah haggis.

I had haggis once. In Edinburgh. I enjoyed the city.

[lynn cates]

have a heart

Hello Maurice.

"I had haggis once. In Edinburgh. I enjoyed the city."

Of course. And the haggis?

Cheers.
LC

[The Grave Maurice]

And the haggis?

Not as much. Must be an acquired taste.

[Observer]

Hi Maurice

Our local fish and chip shop does a lovely haggis coated in batter and deep fried. Sacrilegious I know, but very very tasty

Observer

[The Grave Maurice]

Hi Observer,

Haggis, in your neck of the woods, sounds pretty good. The Scottish variety is always accompanied with a "wee dram". I'm pretty sure that it is only the dram that makes their haggis palatable.

[mariab]

To Lynn Cates:
Some hae meat and canna eat,
and some wad eat that want it;
But we hae meat, and we can eat,
and sae let the Lord be thankit.
By the immortal Rober Burns. (I was tempted to say, by the immortal Robert Lowell, just to see your reaction. Don't be impressed though, Lynn, because I got this on the internet.)

The Grave Maurice wrote:
The Scottish variety is always accompanied with a "wee dram". I'm pretty sure that it is only the dram that makes their haggis palatable.
OK, I might be the worse perv of all, but I severely doubt that what Maurice is referring to here has anything to do with a “wet dream“. It's probably some kind of Scottish beverage – ale or whiskey?
For once a thread's been highjacked and I was NOT involved. Rare as hen's teeth. (Which I almost suspect as the secret ingredient in haggis.)

[sleekviper]

Hey there Tom. Have the pages that you have been transcribed?

[mariab]

Hi Sleek. Tom won't have internet access until Monday. I don't think that his 2 issues of AF have been transliterated, but I'm willing to bet that Lynn will ask Dr. Turtletaub to do this soon. There's an old Eduardo Zinna Rip article pertaining to the IWEC which I'm trying to get hold of, and apparently it discusses these 2 issues of AF. I keep hearing intense praise about that article. It's from the Rip as a printed mag era.

[lynn cates]

AF

Hello Viper and Maria. I emailed Professor Turtletaub today proposing further translations. Right now she is translating a few want ads for me from the AF--you never know.

Cheers.
LC

[sleekviper]

Hello Maria and Lynn, Hello Tom on Monday. No internet till Monday might require a wee dram more than haggis.