Robert Burns was an 18th century Scottish poet (the Scottish Shakespeare) famous for such songs as Auld Lang Syne who's birthday (25th January 1759) is celebrated by us blokes wearing tartan skirts, drinking whisky (usually to excess) and eating haggis - a small, yet tasty, creature found only on the mountains of Scotland, the hunting of which is only allowed on Robert Burn's birthday. According to classic cinema of the era of the great Bruce Willis has commented that the eating of the Haggis has been known to "put hairs on your eyeballs"
There are 2 sub species of Haggis - Hagi dextra longa (those with their right legs longer than their left and as such can only run anticlockwise around mountains) and Hagi sinistra longa - the opposite. These creatures are hunted by a team of hunters - 1 lying in wait for a Haggis to appear then jumping out to scare the beast causing it to startle and turn around, due to the asynchronisity of it's appendages it then rolls down the mountain and into the waiting net of the second hunter.
The Haggis is mourned during the Burns night celebration with a poem declaring him "great chieftain o' the puddin' race" a line when translated from the German celebrations becomes "Mighty Führer of the sausage people"
From the gospel of James (McCann).
There are 2 sub species of Haggis - Hagi dextra longa (those with their right legs longer than their left and as such can only run anticlockwise around mountains) and Hagi sinistra longa - the opposite. These creatures are hunted by a team of hunters - 1 lying in wait for a Haggis to appear then jumping out to scare the beast causing it to startle and turn around, due to the asynchronisity of it's appendages it then rolls down the mountain and into the waiting net of the second hunter.
The Haggis is mourned during the Burns night celebration with a poem declaring him "great chieftain o' the puddin' race" a line when translated from the German celebrations becomes "Mighty Führer of the sausage people"
From the gospel of James (McCann).
