Heroes and Villains ([info]margins_of) wrote,
@ 2004-12-04 19:57:00
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can someone please explain what "Hogmanay" is?
"Lance Corporal Thomas Rennie said: 'I can't wait to get back to Scotland for Christmas and New Year and Hogmanay. It's going to be brilliant. I'm going to drink as much beer as possible and get the kilt on and get out on the town.'"
-bbc article about the Black Watch unit's return to Scotland for Christmas.

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Is there no Google in Germany?
(Anonymous)
2004-12-06 03:56 pm UTC (link)
"It is ordinary among some Plebians in the South of Scotland, to go about from door to door upon New Year`s Eve, crying Hagmane."
Scotch Presbyterian Eloquence, 1693.

http://www.rampantscotland.com/know/blknow12.htm

-S., of course.

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Re: Is there no Google in Germany?
(Anonymous)
2004-12-06 03:58 pm UTC (link)
Rampant Scotland, indeed: "The traditional New Year ceremony of yesteryear would involve people dressing up in the hides of cattle and running around the village being hit by sticks."

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