Cruachan
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A man's a man for a' thatNot sure if he would be horrified or amused with the 250 years celebrations this weekend.
After all, a man's a man for a' that; but here's to Rabbie Burns, a Happy Birthday to one of our greatest.
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Stevie
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Aye to that!
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Lord Pitsligo
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Obscure fact - thanks to the educational standards that led to the Enlightenment, the first book that Robert Burns read was a biography of Hannibal Barca.
Ok, so its an obscure and useless fact
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Stevie
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I don't agree it's useless, do you know what the book is about?
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Holebender
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This is just a wild guess, but it just might have been about the life of Hannibal Barca.
The word "biography" is a bit of a give-away.
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jamesieboy
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Fine man, Rabbie Burns.
A fine time - the enlightenment.
Now I wish tha more people were enlightened.
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The Lithgae Jambo
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| Holebender wrote: | This is just a wild guess, but it just might have been about the life of Hannibal Barca.
The word "biography" is a bit of a give-away. |
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Stevie
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| Holebender wrote: | This is just a wild guess, but it just might have been about the life of Hannibal Barca.
The word "biography" is a bit of a give-away. |
Drole... I was wondering who Hannibal Barca was? I since realised he was the elephant chap.
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Holebender
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Wasn't that Joseph Merrick?
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Lord Pitsligo
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| BRAVEHAND wrote: | | Holebender wrote: | This is just a wild guess, but it just might have been about the life of Hannibal Barca.
The word "biography" is a bit of a give-away. |
Drole... I was wondering who Hannibal Barca was? I since realised he was the elephant chap. |
Having read a biography of Hannibal myself, I was surprised to find out that the elephants were more trouble than they were worth, as most of them died not long after the crossing and were hardly used in his battles. Not that he needed them, given that he utterly destroyed three entire Roman armies in a few years. Look up the Battle of Cannae if you have any interest in military history.
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Stevie
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I will.
I was going to pun on Elephant Man but ...
I would say, it's a little sad the misconceptions about Burns : drunkard, womaniser, spoke like a farmer, uneducated(spontaneous farming genius).
Burns couldn't take too much alcohol; did no more womanising than anybody else in Scotland at that time(or today for that matter), wrote hundreds of accomplished letters in standard perfect English(that few Scots could manage today) and was comparatively well read for a man of his times and a voracious reader if a book was available.
He was and immortally remains a genius for all time in the Scots dialect of English(no less a vehicle for creativity than Shakespeare's form of English 150 years earlier).
Alba go brath
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agentmancuso
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| BRAVEHAND wrote: | | Burns did no more womanising than anybody else in Scotland at that time(or today for that matter) |
Speak for yourself.
| Quote: | | He was and immortally remains a genius for all time in the Scots dialect of English(no less a vehicle for creativity than Shakespeare's form of English 150 years earlier). |
That's way over the top. Shakespeare is incomparable.
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Stevie
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I mean the dialect.
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