Posts tagged as humor
Hendrik Jan Thomassen not only sent me the tail of Haggis hunting but also a nice ancient poem as an ode to Haggis.
Here it is:
The haggis season has begun
and all over Scotland every gun
Is taken down with loving care
Though some prefer the haggis snare
The haggis are a wiley lot
That's why they are so seldom shot
Then hidden in the highland heather
Great hairy Clansmen crouch together
And having laid the haggis bait,
a life-like haggis on a plate,
One cries out loudly: ''There's the noo''
Which means the haggis are in view
It's flying upside down and low
The guns all fore but they're too slow
For thought it's rather old and fat
They're awful hard to hit like that
And as it flies off into the mist
Great hairy clansmen shake their fists
Scream their curseds to the crags
Stamp on empty haggis bags
And so the haggis get away
to live until next Christmas day
''Come back haggis''
And that's the reason it is so rare
This strange traditional Scottish fare
We're that haggis hi hooray
It's hog'manay not Christmas day
Most people are familiar with my love of Scotland, single malt and (of course) haggis. But most people do not have a clue what haggis is and when you tell them, they walk out in disgust.
But a colleague of mine found out that haggis is just an animal that can be hunted in the Scottish Highlands.
This is how it's done:
.....asked me how the haggis were hunted so I explained that there were two types of haggis, who, because they lived on the steep slopes of the Scottish Highlands, developed legs of different lengths on their left and right sides depending upon which way they travelled round the mountain to graze. With the knowledge of which type of haggis one was hunting, the procedure was quite simple.
A large 'catch fence' was erected around the base of the mountain and a piper was sent up the mountain to play his bagpipes while walking contrary to the normal direction of rotation of the haggis. This put the fear of G*d in to the wee creatures who tried to run away, but of course their short legs were now down-hill so they soon overbalanced and rolled down the mountain into the catch fence at the base where they were then easily caught and euthanized.
Thanks to Hendrik Jan Thomassen.
I hope the work is done more serious as the reporting.
I found this one on Quantum Random Bit Generator
Service. I think they are geniuses.
They do have a lot more of these. Just refresh your browser.
Every once in while everybody gets bored a bit. And what does
a nerd/geek do when bored? Yes, he will write a bogus man page
for some non-existing Linux feature.
Read my man page about the happy yes device.
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On the German eBay i found a lot of these.
Buy my iPod/iPhone/etc packaging. Nothing in it,
just the box.
I still have got a lot of them in the attic, so maybe I should
open an eBay account 
Today I made a 'cut and paste' error and ended up
Googling for the word "Time". This is not a great
deal, but the result surprised me:
They even know where I am!!
Entering things like "Time India" even gave the correct results. Nice.
