Happy New Year??????

[norwaytips]

I have been working my dangly bits off over the past 3 weeks.13 and 14 hour days, then all the holiday week between Christmas and the new year. Last night, for the first time in my life, I spent new years eve on my own. My daughter was at her first new year party and someone had to look after the dogs. One of them is terrified of fireworks.
Today I was free, so I tried the live commentary thing....and it worked. Joy of joys. We beat Ipswich and we beat them well. Could this be the start of something good? Well, could it? Is this the turning point? We were a class above Ipswich today and 2-0 doesn't flatter us.......Wait. Maybe the Ipswich team were out on the town last night and they just had an off day. You all know what I mean, The sort of day that West Ham are often having.
Oh well. Guess we'll just have to wait and see, but I do have this strange feeling in my water. Then again, maybe that was the single malt.
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE..............TONY. (x for T )

[hammer_scout51]

Happy New Year everyone.

Celebrating Hogmanay in Scotland is an art form. I love it, open houses 36 hours on and going slower. Started on single malt today probably shouldn,t BUT.

Brilliant result, please lets keep it going.

UP THE HAMMERS.

[claret50]

And to you as well Tony, and also to all you other West Ham nuts as well, cheers!!

[TheresaWHUFC]

A very Happy New Year to all you Hammers, and what a great start to 2005 huh? But so damn typical of our team, struggling against the bottom clubs then pulling off a fantastic win against Ipswich. And once again the other results went our way, now if we can just (convincingly) get those three points off SheffU tomorrow...

So good to start the New Year full of hope, and may those vultures keep away from the likes of Ethers, Reo and Marlon in the next few weeks.

All the best guys, and UP THE 'AMMERS!!!
Tx

[El Toro]

Happy New Year everyone.

Celebrating Hogmanay in Scotland is an art form..

Enlighten the Yank. What is this?

[norwaytips]

Enlighten a yank? Hogmonay...New year celebrations. An olde pagan rite. Now the official start of the haggis shooting season, but only with bows and arrows until the 23 Jan. Celebrate the Scottish way, with single malt whisky. ( Speyside malts for me ) You start feeling better after the second bottle.
Always wear my kilt over the festerings. Women just can't resist getting their own back and shoving their hands up a mans skirt for once. Lovely.

Yank: Short for Yankee. Derives from the Indian scouts trying to speak French and warn them of the approaching English. They had trouble saying Anglais, and it came out as Yangais, hence yankees.

Doodle. To scribble nonsense. From 'Doodle Alley' by the side of Bethlehem (Bedlem) lunatic asylum.Just means crazy.

Dandy: Early 18th century 'beau' Fancy dressed gentleman.

Yankee doodle dandy. .......An English Crazy Gentleman.
Lesson over for today chaps....I just love being a pendantic pig. He he. Tony.

[pething101]

You shoot haggis?

http://www.tulsascots.com/photos/haggis.jpg

[norwaytips]

Of course you shoot them. You can't cook them while they are still alive. You have to cut the legs off too. The claws are very long and sharp. Rather like a badger's.
Luckily, the strictly controlled hunting season means that they are no longer an endangered species. If not controlled they would play havoc with the sheep. Tony. :rolleyes:

[Footstomper]

Enlighten a yank? Hogmonay...New year celebrations. An olde pagan rite. Now the official start of the haggis shooting season, but only with bows and arrows until the 23 Jan. Celebrate the Scottish way, with single malt whisky. ( Speyside malts for me ) You start feeling better after the second bottle.
Always wear my kilt over the festerings. Women just can't resist getting their own back and shoving their hands up a mans skirt for once. Lovely.

Yank: Short for Yankee. Derives from the Indian scouts trying to speak French and warn them of the approaching English. They had trouble saying Anglais, and it came out as Yangais, hence yankees.

Doodle. To scribble nonsense. From 'Doodle Alley' by the side of Bethlehem (Bedlem) lunatic asylum.Just means crazy.

Dandy: Early 18th century 'beau' Fancy dressed gentleman.

Yankee doodle dandy. .......An English Crazy Gentleman.
Lesson over for today chaps....I just love being a pendantic pig. He he. Tony.

Actually Hogmanay is a reminder of the ancient fuedal system which persisted for so longin the scottish highlands. It was traditional for the crofters to hand over the first Haggis to the Laird as part of their feudal dues. In return the Laird would reward the peasants with a token sum of Haggis-money, or Hogmanay, as it came to be known.
This tradition is also recorded in the scottish tradition of 'first footing'. In this tradition the drunken peasant, who caught the Haggis (which incidentally dont need to be shot, but were often flushed out of their burrows by packs of scottish terriers which were bred for the purpose) goes from house to house and wishes everyone 'health wealth and happiness for the new year. In return he will recieve a piece of cake, some silver (usually a shilling) and apiece of coal. The festival of Hogmanay therefore sybolises luck, and in many parts of scotland a lucky man is still often referred to as a 'lang and canny bonny Hogmanay lad'
As for yank I believe Norway is wrong. It is a corruption of Jan Keys; referring to the 'original' Dutch settlers of New York.
I hope that ends the controversy.
Happy new year. Happy Hogmanay. Up the Hammers

[El Toro]

From Wikipedia:

To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.

To Americans, a Yankee is an Easterner.

To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.

To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.

And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast

[norwaytips]

Yankee....Someone who eats pie for breakfast......Frank Lampard, an Englishman. That's what I said.

Stomper. I don't think so, but a common mistake. The song itself was written by an English army officer.
When the British were fighting the French, the local, or not so local, trappers, would come in to the army camps to trade. They dressed in a peculiar way. A mixture of furs, old clothes and even 'indian' feathers in their hats. Actually, they were birds feathers, but you know what I mean.
When a particular trapper (an east londoner) came in to the camp, he used cockney rhyming slang and called his pony, his macaroni. The rest I have explained before.
I got this information, from the British museum library research department, and used it for a radio show on useless information, that I once did for radio Orwell. It was also used on BBC radio 4, where they gave the same explaination. They even mentioned the 'Jan keys' thing and said it was a load of bollox. So Nahhh nahhh to you. Bloody history teachers, think they know it all. Happy new year stomps. Tony.
PS You may be right about the Haggis thing tho'. I just made it up. T

[Footstomper]

PS You may be right about the Haggis thing tho'. I just made it up. T
Thats a coincidence, so did I. Just dont tell the yanks. Its too much fun. Happy new year mate!

[Footstomper]

Thats a coincidence, so did I. Just dont tell the yanks. Its too much fun. Happy new year mate!
PS I think that the stuff about the East Londoner and Macaroni is a right load of pony!

[norwaytips]

Stomper: Should we explain that to our colonial cousins? I thought it was quite witty..........for you!. Cheers. T.

[Footstomper]

Stomper: Should we explain that to our colonial cousins? I thought it was quite witty..........for you!. Cheers. T.
Definately not!