Bigsby

Classic!

Because they're cheese eating surrender monkeys who don't wash, wear stripey tops and go "hon he hon he hon?"

What does "claiming SNP" entail?

In terms of council housing, THIS is what's happened over the last few years: Excellent housing performance means Council ends year on a high ie a reduction in the number of empty council houses, something which is undoubtedly a good thing, and a lot of it is down to Poles who were happy to take a flat that "local" people wouldn't accept, and doing it up themselves.

Class!

Yeah, not sure what your point is, can't say I ever use a credit card in a pub.

You mean you've never heard of the Crowd Surfing Prohibition (Scotland) Act 2005? Crowd surfing must be a criminal act because it says you're not allowed to do it on the back of your ticket.

I think the Dowmeister would be pleased that he inspired such a magnificent punfest.

No way is Morrisey racist. Everyone knows his boyfriend is hispanic.

Some of the original cast are involved too, including Gabriel Denburn.

Oops, I had a pot noodle. I had fishcakes for tea though, are they Scottish?

OK, Leo Soor Plooms is the best I can do. But staying with the sweetie theme, and adding one of our Celtic cousins into the mix, how about The Pan Dropkick Murphys?

I'm a Dons fan, but I just thought that their run to the UEFA cup final was a pretty good achievement, particularly beating two teams from "the best league in the world" along the way, and over two legs so not really flukes. But there's no question that their away form in the Champions League is shocking.

Yup, Pancakes at the Disco is class, but I'm kicking myself for not coming up with David Rowie - the simple ones are always the best.

Fair enough, all I'm saying is that, in Celtic's case anyway, their form against Premiership opposition has been good when they have met in recent seasons.

Even using your rationale, they won two "one offs" against Premiership clubs in that run.

Other Scottish foodstuffs/music puns: 1. Uriah Neep 2. (Tunnocks Tea) Cake That 3. Clootie (Dumpling) & The Blowfish 4. The (Cullen S)Kinks 5. (Deep fried Mars Bar)bra Striesand

Gadz min, who would eat ready made stovies?

Remember, Celtic beat both Blackburn and Liverpool on their run to the UEFA cup final, and both over two legs, so not really "one offs". As they stand they would probably be mid table, but the key as Ross pointed out would be all the additonal money they would get from TV. That combined the "global brand" that they each have would no doubt ensure that they would be challenging the top 4 before too long.

Apparently loads of American tourists turn up at the Grassic Gibbon centre every year asking to see the monkeys...

But I had the matching guitar and everything. I'm reminded of that old Klingon proverb... "Revenge is a dish best served cold."

How do you think I met Mrs Bigsby?

According to wiki Master of Arts (Scotland) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I think there's a distinction to be made between "toonser" doric (Think Councillor Swick in Scotland the What?) and "teuchter" doric (Think Robbie Shepherd). I would say that your typical "ned" talk ie "Himmin ye bam, fit the f**K de ye think yer deein?" would fall under the toonser category. Personally I'm on the teuchter side, beasts and dubs and all that.

Me too, that's Laurencekirk isn't it? I noticed the chip shop one myself when I was there a while back.