Here's me, that has a pride in my own good milling, that's just to tak' whatever scanty corn an ill-doing farmer harvests. in Universal Standard Time, an invention of Sir Sandford Fleming of Kirkcaldy, Scotland, who also first proposed time zones. Scottish toasts can be whipped out at any social occasion where a dram is being shared among friends, although the most fitting moment is at a Burns’ Night supper – an evening devoted to celebrating the life and lyrics of Scotland’s most famous poet. Renton (played by Ewan McGregor) expresses strong views in the film adaptation of Irvine Welsh's classic Edinburgh novel, Trainspotting.

It is one of the most hauntingly beautiful places in the world, the history is fascinating, the men are handsome and the whisky is delicious. Dundee poet William Topaz McGonagall (1825-1902) is widely considered one of the worst poets of all time. The long history leading up to that usage is a whole other story that I’m not going to spend time on today just because gay isn’t the word of the day.We’ve got the most informed readers in Scotland, asking each other the big questions about the future of our country.

O Thou, in whom we live and move, Who made the sea and shore; Thy goodness constantly we prove, And grateful would adore; And if it please Thee, Power above! En route to his office he strides along the English roads on a surface invented by John Loudon McAdam of Ayr, Scotland. The proper drinking of Scotch whisky is more than indulgence; it is a toast to a civilisation, a tribute to the continuity of culture, a manifesto of man's determination to use the resources of nature to refresh mind and body and enjoy to the full the senses with which he has been endowed. May the best you've ever seen Be the worst you'll ever see; May a moose ne'er leave yer girnal Wi' a teardrop in his e'e. He had little respect for the "young pretender" Bonnie Prince Charlie, who died an alcoholic in France.This they strike with such force and dexterity from one hole to another, that they will fly to an incredible distance. He uses the phone to report a crime to his head office in the USA, and the signal travels along the submarine cable developed by Robert Stirling Newall of Dundee, Scotland. He has by now been reminded too much of Scotland and in desperation he picks up the Bible only to find that the first man mentioned in the good book is a Scot, King James VI and I who authorised its translation. There is no obligation to favour the work of Burns either – variety is the spice of life after all – and there are a breadth of poets, bards and authors to choose from.

Then let us toast John Barleycorn, Each man a glass in hand Andy may his great prosperity Ne'er fail in old Scotland! Our Scottish theory … is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country. Properly conducted the toasts at a Burns supper can save the day, but they must be entertaining otherwise the sated company will become somnolent. And his appeal to his countrymen "to see oorselves as ithers see us" helped fuel that numbing self-consciousness and personal insecurity that afflicts so many Scots today.The poem tells of Scottish superiority over the Romans (A flight of bold eagles), the Danes (The fell Harpy-Raven), and the Norwegians (The wild Scandinavian Boar). While out on the boat he notices some geological formations, geology being one of the many sciences founded or developed by Scots, in this case James Hutton of Edinburgh, who was an acquaintance of Kirkcaldy-born Adam Smith, founder of the science of political economy, and Adam Ferguson of Logierait in Perthshire, the father of modern sociology. The Oxford English Dictionary is helpful on that, since the word is fairly widespread, not only in Scotland but also in Ireland and northern England.