Frae the Glasgow Metro Wed.April12.2006
"A Piper who killed a bandmate after criticising the victim's playing ability was jailed for 45 months yesterday.Keith Drysdale of Edinburgh punched and kicked James Mearing,51,who suffered from a heart condition,following a row during a practice session.Drysdale,a joiner,was originally charged with murder but at the High Court in Edinburgh pled guilty to the reduced charge of culpable homicide."........
Sounds like a fun band to be in
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The Tannahill Weavers wrote:It reminds us of the old story about the regimental piper going over the top with his colleagues at the Battle of the Somme. It has for many years been the tradition that Scottish regiments are piped into battle; a tradition that is still honoured. Picture the scene, there he is blowing away furiously, right there in the thick of the battle. Bullets and shells are flashing past him and his fellow soldiers, bombs are exploding all around him, things are whizzing and whooshing all over the place. Suddenly out of the confusion of the battle the unmistakable loud voice of his sergeant major rings out. "For @#%$+* sake Angus, play something they like!"
It put me in mind of the Billy Connelly story - He was somewhere foreign - it might have been New York - and one of his acquaintances met another Scottish fella in the bar. Billy went off to talk to someone else and lost track of his mate. When he went into the alley, he found him beating the other guy's head against a wall, shouting "And I'm telling you there are 97 islands in the Greek Archipelago!"
Uilliam wrote:Frae the Glasgow Metro Wed.April12.2006
"A Piper who killed a bandmate after criticising the victim's playing ability was jailed for 45 months yesterday.Keith Drysdale of Edinburgh punched and kicked James Mearing,51,who suffered from a heart condition,following a row during a practice session.Drysdale,a joiner,was originally charged with murder but at the High Court in Edinburgh pled guilty to the reduced charge of culpable homicide."........
Sounds like a fun band to be in
Slán Go Foill
Uilliam
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Touch not the cat bot a glove:
Ah come on. You know you've all thought about it...
Innocent Bystander wrote:It put me in mind of the Billy Connelly story - He was somewhere foreign - it might have been New York - and one of his acquaintances met another Scottish fella in the bar. Billy went off to talk to someone else and lost track of his mate. When he went into the alley, he found him beating the other guy's head against a wall, shouting "And I'm telling you there are 97 islands in the Greek Archipelago!"
...which puts paid to the nasty lie that the Gaels are an uncultured, ignorant race.
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