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Skweeky
08-23-2006, 11:39 AM
I thought I'd heard it all but no.... I actually came accross two sayings I've never heard before

All Scottish members, feel free to add to the list :lol:


Heid-the-baw
Giving me the dry boag

:huh:
Mr JP Fugley
08-23-2006, 02:39 PM
It's the "dry boak" old bean.

Explanation for you infidels. Have you ever vomited but there was nothing left so you were just doing it but nothing was coming out. That my chums is the "dry boak".

The normal type is simply "boaking"
Mr JP Fugley
08-23-2006, 02:42 PM
Oh and "heid the baw" is like an eejit, prick, headcase or several other things. It really rather depends on the context.

"Haw, heid the baw, your claimed"
Skweeky
08-23-2006, 03:52 PM
boak ok then... boak it is.

it is, however, a soft 'k' is it not?
Skweeky
08-23-2006, 03:54 PM
Enrich us with more of these words JP :D
Skweeky
08-23-2006, 04:07 PM
Nother one:

To do your messages
Proper Bo
08-23-2006, 04:08 PM
That's not scottish
100%
08-23-2006, 04:12 PM
There can only be one (sequal)

http://www.het.brown.edu/~nastase/highlander.gif
Skweeky
08-23-2006, 04:13 PM
Bloody well is :angry:

Never heard it down south anyway, so in the worst case it's a Northern saying
Proper Bo
08-23-2006, 04:23 PM
Did you just call me southern?
Fucking immigrants, coming over here, claiming our words:fist:
Skweeky
08-23-2006, 04:32 PM
No. down south is like London and Birmingham and stuff.

You lot are too close to Hadrian's wall to be considered Southern :p
Proper Bo
08-23-2006, 04:34 PM
Some eejit argues with me that Birmingham isn't southern:no2:
Mr JP Fugley
08-23-2006, 04:42 PM
boak ok then... boak it is.

it is, however, a soft 'k' is it not?

No, it's a hard "k", mate. As in sook.
Skweeky
08-23-2006, 07:22 PM
Aha... it is the Falkirk accent that is to blame then
Mr JP Fugley
08-23-2006, 07:26 PM
Aha... it is the Falkirk accent that is to blame then

:lol:

Yup, I said it in Falkirk, in my heid, and you're right enuff.
Skweeky
08-23-2006, 07:49 PM
I never knew you were into astral projection JP.

It's quite a long way to go from Bearsden as well
Mr JP Fugley
08-23-2006, 07:59 PM
I'm always willing to make the effort for a mate.

It's the kind of guy I am.
Skweeky
08-23-2006, 09:06 PM
That touches me, it does

That'll start me greetin'
Seedler
08-23-2006, 09:21 PM
come again?
BILLY-THE-FISH
08-23-2006, 10:57 PM
"You Tube"... as Alan Brasil might say lol
Spider_dude
08-23-2006, 11:10 PM
true story.

while in a studenty pub in edinburgh last weekend this rather scottish fellow at the bar has this conversation with a wee bonnie lassie.

Oaf: you have the biggest eyes i've ever seen
girl: thanks
Oaf: i'm sorry but i think you're gorgeous
girl: thanks
Oaf: (to me) you ken whit she is?
Me: what?
Oaf: she's a pure bobby dazzler, isn't she
me: yeah
Oaf: you ever been cried a boaby dazzler hen?
Girl: what?
Oaf:(repeats question)
Girl: err thanks

i was considering translating his cried a boaby dazzler into english for her to understand but decided to get another round of hideously overpriced flavoured vodkas instead.