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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="PT-BR">===========================================<br>
L O W L A N D S - L - 14 February 2009 - Volume 02<br>
===========================================</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="PT-BR"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">From: </span><span class="ep8xu"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Tom Mc Rae</span></span><span class="hccdpe"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></span><span class="ldacoc"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><<a href="mailto:thomas.mcrae@bigpond.com">thomas.mcrae@bigpond.com</a>></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br>
Subject: </span><span class="hccdpe"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">LL-L "Anthems" 2009.02.14 (02) [E/LS]</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">On
15/02/2009, at 5:05 AM, <span style="color: rgb(200, 137, 0);">Paul Finlow-Bates</span> <<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>> List
wrote:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"> It was
written as the anthem for the United Kingdom, and once more it is England's job
to be "British" and inclusive, while the other coutries express their
indvidual identity. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Maybe so
bit one vesrse, kept very quiet, is highly derogatory to Scotland,
condemning us as Traitor Knaves among other slanders.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Us Aussies
dumped it years ago for Advance Australia Fair.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">I haven't
actually noted what happens in the case of Ireland. In football (Soccer), Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic
field their own teams. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Scotland</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> of course also fields its own
soccer team, for all the good it has done them :-)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">The people
are fitbaw daft and will start brawls in pubs arising from disagreements on
teams. Despite all the fanaticism they have not won an International in years</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">and Australia
advanced further during the last World Soccer Cup and we do not take the Game
all that seriously here. I grew up in foibaw fanatical Edinburgh where</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">I chose to
ignore the Game,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Record of
the last time Hearts or Hibs won The Scottish Cup is in an ancient scroll long
lost.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Regards</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Tom
Mc Rae</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Brisbane</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">AUSTRALIA</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">"Oh
wad some power the Giftie gie us,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Tae
see oorsels as ithers see us</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Robert
Burns</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br>
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<br>
From: </span><span class="ep8xu"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(200, 137, 0);">Tom Carty</span></span><span class="hccdpe"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></span><span class="ldacoc"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><<a href="mailto:cartyweb@hotmail.com">cartyweb@hotmail.com</a>></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br>
Subject: </span><span class="hccdpe"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">LL-L "Anthems" 2009.02.14 (02) [E/LS]</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">For rugby,
a song was written specially to get round the anthems issue, called Irelands
Call. Before, all matches up north played God Save the Queen, while down south
when playing all stood to attention to Amhran na bhFhiann...<br>
<br>
For soccer sometimes they sing Danny Boy up north, but officially it is God
Save the Queen<br>
<br>
Poetry on all topics...<br>
________________________________<br>
Writings in Rhyme<br>
<a href="http://www.writingsinrhyme.com/" target="_blank">www.writingsinrhyme.com</a><br>
<a href="http://www.lulu.com/cartyweb" target="_blank">www.lulu.com/cartyweb</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
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<br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">From: </span><span class="ep8xu"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">James Wilson</span></span><span class="hccdpe"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></span><span class="ldacoc"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><<a href="mailto:jawi2300@gmail.com">jawi2300@gmail.com</a>></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br>
Subject: </span><span class="hccdpe"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">LL-L "Anthems" 2009.02.14 (02) [E/LS]</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Hi Lowlanders,<br>
<br>
I believe it is a good thing to "stir up the hornets' nest". If
it is<br>
the only way to get out into open discussion what we think and believe<br>
in private. Calling a Scots or Welshman English is worse than calling<br>
an Austrian German.<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
James<br>
British/Northumbrian<br>
<br>James Wilson<br>
Egilsgade 23, 3th<br>
Copenhagen S<br>
DK-2300<br>
Denmark<br>
<br>
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<br>
From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>>
<br>
Subject: Anthems<br>
<br>
Hi, James!<br>
<br>
Welcome among the Lowlanders, and congratulations on getting your feet wet
right away!<br>
<br>
You wrote:<br>
<br></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Calling a Scots or Welshman English is worse than calling an Austrian German.</span></span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">
<br>
True. But I was trying to edge toward the compassionate, positive angle by suggesting that at least in theory the
people of England seem to be coming out short in the current deal: they still
look like the conquerors and in the process lose the official identity of their
own country.<br>
<br>
The Isle of Britain
has come a long way since World War II, especially lately. Among other things, Wales and Scotland
have been undergoing political emancipation (which has been called "devolution"),
and their cultures and languages are being openly celebrated.
<br><br>Historical conquests aside, the rich cultural and linguistic heritage
of England
deserves</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> just as much</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> celebration. I see nothing odious in this, as long as the people of
England
do not regard theirs as being superior to those of other countries.<br>
<br>
Please take a look at this article:<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/this-england">http://tinyurl.com/this-england</a><br>
<br>
Regards and a special cheerio to our English, Scottish and Welsh Lowlanders!<br>
Reinhard/Ron<br>
Seattle, USA</span></p>