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Looks like Alisdair Gray...79 years old and still waiting for a bus tae Lanark eh?

Poison bottles at some point in the 19th c gained ridges on their edges. This was so that blind people would identify the bottles, thus being able to poison their rabbiting wife. The practice survives on some recepticles for such ill fluids: often for example Stella artois is served in a glass ident...

I think you have gorn platinum moonbeam!

Alas moonbeam, even i am a mere blue jacket. Drill pipe and collar willnae qualify you for more than green.

Dexter St. Clair wrote:

Alycidon wrote:I also heard that the North British Locomotive Company were the victim of some unfortunate translation.

I sympathise. I'm still trying to translate the engineer speak of the above post.

Anoraks and "Beiler" suits only here Sinister Dx. Clair!

moonbeam wrote:What about the Barclay shunters from Kilmarnock? Perhaps NBL could have learned from them. Yes the mm/inch problem. NBL had lathes and cutting gear in inches and had to work the MAN diesels in mm.

neigh guid when it's +/- 0.15 on a valve seat!

Josef wrote:They sold it in the Victoria Bar next to the Clutha Vaults at one point, too.

I remember thinking it was either one of the worst or nicest things I had ever tasted. A bit like serious blue cheese, in that way.

It was porridge mixed with guiness for me: breakfast and dinner in one Josef !

Great thread, long may it live! ALthough I love the idea of the tunnel walks and the "dig" on the botanics station; i would love it all to reopen with something more sensible than the Edinbra' ( capital by fortuity only) tram cock up! Are there any photos of the exploration of the Hillhead...

I have vague memories of going to a Heilin club at the bottom of Byres Rd or across the road once or twice after the pubs shut. Any ideas? My mother's from the Isle of Eriskay. A lot of the Heilindirs used to meet in the Park Bar. I also have memories of many a good night. :D Myself and a good few ...

The Egg Man wrote:Clockwork Brewery made an oatmeal stout at one time.

maclays did it in both keg and bottle, the latter gaining that sickly original guiness taint while the former being a wonder on the tastebuds.

they had it in that boozer that began with a G near the kelvin in woodlands many sleeps ago.

I also heard that the North British Locomotive Company were the victim of some unfortunate translation. As previously mentioned they were forced to use the German MAN engines, and these I was told were built under what was little short of a form of War reparation. Because of this, MAN were not coop...

Aberfoyle and the trossachs have a special feel ! hope there hasn't been felling since i was last there? Since the OP is sprek enough to get up ben lomond, but generally lacks four wheels - on the other side of the loch you can bus to luss ( huh! eat that local poet ;.- ) and go over several peaks w...

At the battle of standford bridge in 1066, the different "languages" functioned more like dialects and the english could trade insults across the myre with the danish / norsk mercenary army assembled to invade from the north. Lowland scotland was Cymric speaking until some point around vik...

They could not build an electric/diesel to save themselves. http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/springburn/spring024.htm NBL Not strictly true: they couldn't build power units in wailway speak: They built MAN diesels under license and not very well: they should have been allowed to fit OEM engines, and di...

Oat Meal Stout availability on tap in glesga or.is no one brewing it?

Piscsh oot.a bottle