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Boy Wonder · Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Posts: 453 Location: Clacton on sea

Historical sense......what about it's 400 year capitulation to its far more superior southern neighbours!!!!
Now that's what I call history.

leeroy · Joined: 30 Jan 2003 Posts: 777 Location: London UK

Let's not forget McGyver

benno · Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 501 Location: Fake Mongolia

sigmoid · Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 1276

shmooj · Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 1758 Location: Seoul, ROK

Well I'm grateful to Scotland for giving me a wife.

... and let's not forget...

Cardinal Synn · Joined: 01 Nov 2004 Posts: 586

If you don't know who the Scots' southern neighbours are, get an atlas and look at it!

benno · Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 501 Location: Fake Mongolia

Cardinal Synn · Joined: 01 Nov 2004 Posts: 586

Scotland does lack great rock/pop icons. There have been famous and successful bands obviously, but nothing of the Beatles, U2 mega star variety. Unless anyone knows better?

benno · Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 501 Location: Fake Mongolia

Hector_Lector · Joined: 20 Apr 2004 Posts: 548

Andy Stewart, Lord Rockingham�s VI (Hoots mon, there�s a moose loose aboot this hoose!), The Corries, Sidney Devine, The Fire Engines... the list is endless.

Boy Wonder · Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Posts: 453 Location: Clacton on sea

Runrig.....Altered Images......The Queens of Shame....Lexwork....Tyebag...

Cheers for the history lesson Cardinal....but why are the jocks so anti english if they have had such a say in the running of things over the last 400 years.

Could it be because we helped ourselves to all the North sea oil and spread the wealth around the union..... Wink

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

Don't forget the Bay City Rollers. Tartan was the new cool. Although with chavs being the new ruling underclass it's making a comback. Even though Burberry's have discounted their famous tartan line.
If you don't know what a chav is
http://www.chavscum.co.uk/

Cardinal Synn · Joined: 01 Nov 2004 Posts: 586

Yeah OK some pretty big bands and geezers like Rod Stewart, I intentionally didn't mention the Bay City Rollers, but what the hey, in their day ( or it might have been two days) they were a big thing (ahem). However there just aint anything of great-super-meganess. The previous lists don't, I feel, prove me wrong. Some good bands and artists, but not super league.

By the way Boywonder, why does a gallon of petrol cost more in the North of Scotland (nearest the source) than it does in the South of England? Wink

juststeven · Joined: 18 Aug 2004 Posts: 117

My great-great grandmother came to 'Americur' from Glascow. While teaching in Saudi, Bahrain, and the Emirites, I had the pleasure to meet and befriend many Scot teachers and colleagues. I must tell you true, that after a couple of pints I couldn't understand a word they were saying. The students/trainees (oil companies) also complained about this when they were sober. I could expect, after a night of 'socializing', a call to the effect, "Steven, I cunna *beep* tah wurk taday. I gaut a wee problem. Me caar is too drunk tah drive". So, I'd have to cover with the same hangover he had, and that would be six classes. Laughing

God love the Scots, if it wasn't for whisky they would rule the world. But, no one would be able to understand them Very Happy

guty · Joined: 10 Apr 2003 Posts: 365 Location: on holiday

Rod Stewart
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Roderick David Stewart (born January 10, 1945) is an English singer of Scottish descent. Stewart was the youngest of five children born to Robert and Elsie Stewart. His parents owned a newsagent's shop in North London, and the family resided above the shop. Minutes before Rod Stewart was born in Highgate, London, a German V-2 rocket hit the police station just down the street and exploded.

but you can have Moira Anderson