Hendrik Jan Thomassen not only sent me the tail of Haggis hunting but also a nice ancient poem as an ode to Haggis.
Here it is:
[Read More]The haggis season has begun
and all over Scotland every gun
Is taken down with loving care
Though some prefer the haggis snare
The haggis are a wiley lot
That’s why they are so seldom shot
Then hidden in the highland heather
Great hairy Clansmen crouch together
And having laid the haggis bait,
a life-like haggis on a plate,
One cries out loudly:’There’s the noo'
Which means the haggis are in view
It’s flying upside down and low
The guns all fore but they’re too slow
For thought it’s rather old and fat
They’re awful hard to hit like that
And as it flies off into the mist
Great hairy clansmen shake their fists
Scream their curseds to the crags
Stamp on empty haggis bags
And so the haggis get away
to live until next Christmas day
'`Come back haggis'’
And that’s the reason it is so rare
This strange traditional Scottish fare
We’re that haggis hi hooray
It’s hog’manay not Christmas day
How to hunt the Haggis
Most people are familiar with my love of Scotland, single malt and (of course) haggis. But most people do not have a clue what haggis is and when you tell them, they walk out in disgust.
But a colleague of mine found out that haggis is just an animal that can be hunted in the Scottish Highlands.
This is how it’s done:
[Read More]…..asked me how the haggis were hunted so I explained that there were two types of haggis, who, because they lived on the steep slopes of the Scottish Highlands, developed legs of different lengths on their left and right sides depending upon which way they travelled round the mountain to graze. With the knowledge of which type of haggis one was hunting, the procedure was quite simple.
Those funny technicians
I hope the work is done more serious as the reporting.
Being bored
Every once in while everybody gets bored a bit. And what does a nerd/geek do when bored? Yes, he will write a bogus man page for some non-existing Linux feature.
Read my man page about the happy yes device.
The yes device
Appendix A: The yes device man page
A.1 NAME
yes - The yes device
A.2 SYNOPSIS
The yes device (and it’s ascendants) produces a constant flow of positive answers.
Buy nice packaging
On the German eBay i found a lot of these.
Buy my iPod/iPhone/etc packaging. Nothing in it, just the box.
I still have got a lot of them in the attic, so maybe I should open an eBay account ;-)
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