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<b>L O W L A N D S - L - 31 March 2010 - Volume 03</b><br>
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From: <span class="gd"><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Sandy Fleming</span></span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="go"><<a href="mailto:sandy@fleimin.demon.co.uk">sandy@fleimin.demon.co.uk</a>></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="FR">Subject: <span class="gi">LL-L "Traditions" 2010.03.30 (01)
[DE-EN-NDS]</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">> From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>
> Subject: Traditions<br>
<br>
> Hanne wants to know if there are other such traditions. To kick off<br>
> the answer, let me refer to the corresponding English Wikipedia page<br>
> on which a number of similar traditions are mentioned, including those<br>
> in Dutch- and English-speaking areas:<br>
<br>
Pictures aside, I suppose there were street balladeers in Britain and<br>
America, who recorded and recited topical news stories in a poetic,<br>
though often fairly formulaic, manner.<br>
<br>
One fortuitous aspect of the English language in this respect was the<br>
rhyming of the word "remember" with several months of the year, so
many<br>
a news item could be introduced with its date and an automatic rhyme in<br>
the first two lines:<br>
<br>
'Twas in the year of 1886, and on the 29th of November,<br>
Which the surviving crew of the "Samuel Crawford" will
long<br>
remember,[...]<br>
<br>
These pieces weren't particularly poetic, which I suppose is<br>
understandable considering the need to pack in all the dates, places,<br>
people, facts and so on, and get the whole thing ready for recitation<br>
while the event was still news.<br>
<br>
I think it's unfortunate that people like William McGonagall and Julia<br>
Moore are mainly seen as targets for lampoonists. Although there's a<br>
definite uneducated aspect to their works, they record a lot about the<br>
events and attitudes of these times, and sometimes the "fresh off the<br>
press" aspect seems to come across very strongly.<br>
<span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);"><br>
Sandy Fleming<br>
<a href="http://scotstext.org/" target="_blank">http://scotstext.org/</a></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">From: <span class="gd"><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Tom Mc Rae</span></span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="go"><<a href="mailto:thomas.mcrae@bigpond.com">thomas.mcrae@bigpond.com</a>></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="FR">Subject: </span><span class="gi"><span style="font-family: Arial;">LL-Traditions</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gi"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Today being April 1st here
at least I wonder if Scotland,
which seems to have lost so many traditions, will celebrate All Fools' Day</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">tomorrow in the old way. In Edinburgh and surrounds
it is known as HUNTYGOWK and runs from dawn until noon. Good example was</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">a friend riding his bike who
came alongside a painter's flatbed van at traffic lights many years ago. He
called to the driver"Hey Pal, dae Ye no ken</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">yin o' Yer paint cans is
leakin oot a trail oan the road ?" Victim started checking the street
behind him as my pal rode off fast downhill yelling</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">"HUNTYGOWK"
followed by a profane stream from the driver.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Anybody trying this on after
12 noon would get an old rhyme recited "Huntygowk's past an Yewre a fewl
at last (or 'Yewre a styoopit ass")</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Up the tree,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">An' doon the tree.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Yew're a bigger fewl than me
!"</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Aussie radio announcers have
to be handled with care today I just responded to our ABC Classical FM
announcer who recounted on radio this morning that a bassoon concerto
written by an English aristocrat's second son had been discovered in</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">an abandoned sheep shed
covered in daggy wool. Composer allegedly came to Ozland complete with his
bassoon. I responded...</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Lassie, dae Ye think that Ah
cam up the Clyde in a bananny skin ? Music in
a sheepshed dun by a Pommy ? Pu' Mah ither laig Emma it's the yin wi bells oan
it. If Ye luik oot Yer windae Ye'll see coos fleein' past it. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;"><span style="word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="word-spacing: 0px;">Best Regards<br>
Tom Mc Rae<br>
Brisbane Australia<br>
An honest man's the noblest work of God (Robert Burns)</span></span></span></p>
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