Och, aye, Scotland!

This is a brief eductional article intended to shed some light on that strange and wonderful place, Scotland. Any humor, or "humour" in purely unintentional.

Scotland, along with England, Wales and Northern Ireland, forms the United Kingdom. Scotland is best known for its historic castles, rich traditions and for men who wear skirts. I mean kilts, yeah, kilts.

Scotland's chief contributions to the civilized world, uh I mean the rest of the civilized world, are knowledge-based industries, eating the parts of sheep that no one else wants and creating great skins. Voodoo_Freak, Honz12 and whats-his-name, the guy that made Hellfire (yeah, Hippy, thats the one) are examples of Scotland's great skinners.

Skinning began in Scotland when the barbaric inhabitants painted their bodies with woad. Please see the Woad Ode at http://www.frivolity.com/teatime/Songs_and_Poems/woad_ode.html for further details. This was a tradition that lasted from ancient times until about two years ago, when they discovered WindowBlinds.

It is a well-documented fact that the Scots are a fierce people. In 1010, the Scots under King King Malcolm the 2nd defeated a Viking army at Mortlach, with King Malcolm strangling the Viking General. See http://viking.no/e/info-sheets/scotland/mortlach.htm. I encourage users to bear this event in mind when commenting on Hippy's skins. The Vikings remained determined to conquer Scotland, until they learned that this would mean eating haggis and listening to bagpipes. At that point Eric the Red said, "Tell me about this Iceland again."

William Wallace of Elerslie, is regarded by many as Scotland's greatest hero. A soldier and skinner (see notes about woad above) his homepage is at http://www.highlanderweb.co.uk/wallace/index.html. He would have skinned for WindowBlinds had the Stardock store been available. Denied of this outlet for his natural talents, he had no choice but to wage war against the British. Finally, WindowBlinds and SkinStudio were released and the Scottish had other outlets.

It is an undocumented and little-known fact, but today's modern Scots descend from the Lost Tribes of Israel. This can clearly be seen from the fact that both peoples say "Oy" and "Ch" a lot.

Thank you for your time and I hope that no one believes a single word!
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hehe



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I went to scotland once and my funniest memory was in Edinburgh where somebody had decided to stick a bright orange road cone on top of the head of the large statue of the Duke of Wellington. That and a bunch of drunken italians singing italy's anthem because their team had just won a match in the world cup
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Scotland sucks, they've beaten the dutch soccer team j/k
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That's true ? I knew that.










j/k
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Styl skinner: wait for the returngame
I hope they play in the KUIP instead of the Arena, because they always win in the kuip (see Euro2000 )
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Voodoo_Freak, Honz12 and whats-his-name, the guy that made Hellfire (yeah, Hippy, thats the one) are examples of Scotland's great skinners.

Shame on you, Mr Kuperman. You forgot the man who went before us all, Neil Allerdice, AKA Thredz.

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Shame on you, Mr Kuperman. You forgot the man who went before us all, Neil Allerdice, AKA Thredz.



OMG, seriously I am ashamed. How could I have forgotten! (/me smacks forehead.) Thank you, Mark, for reminding me.

I hope this brought some cheer to all.
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AndreasV, the game was totaly sh*t. The team is builded from people who are 'bejaard'.
I bet we lose the next game and then we can say bye bye to portugal.

with the end score of 0-1 hippy
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'bejaard'
Stam was good btw, too bad he was booked so he will mist the returngame

We currently miss a player who can make good moves, like Jozsef Kiprich (aka god) could make them in his years.

Also, the pace of the game was way to low, my granny could do faster

Anyway, if we win the next game, we will forget all of this. If we lose, then #!)@*#*#*@@~!!***
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true, if we lose the next game I will move to scotland
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do one of you wonderful scottish people know much about the university of Edinburgh. I was thinking about trying to do a semester there.

woot woot
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I just wanted to share the purpose of this thread. Mark (Hippy) is a wonderful skinner and community member (Wizop!)who is a great soul. Yesterday there was a "heated discussion" on his Hellfire skin-- ironic that! I would rather respond with humor (or humour, as the case may be) than with anger. Better for the digestion.

I hope that this made you laugh or at least smile. BTW, the historical references (including the jumping around and strangling people) are accurate.

Here's to you, Hippy!



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larry, you glossed right over some of my ancestors - picts, druids, etc.

highlander ferocity has been made too much of on tv. but then again, the germans in WW I did track their deployments carefully and bolster defenses accordingly, and referred to them lovingly as "die hoelledamen" - the ladies from hell.
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ORANJE BOVEN, ORANJE BOVEN, OLÉ OLÉ OLÉ

Holland has won with 6-0 from scotland.

Och aye