Burns night

by rrps700 2011-01-25, 21:00

If you did not know tonight was burns night a night to commemorate the only Scottish poet Robert Burns the writer of ode to a mouse the poem that inspired Steinbeck to write of mice and men burns also wrote for Old Angzine which was used in its a wonderful life. It is a tradition to recite a poem and then stab a haggis, but what is a haggis well A haggis is a small animal native to Scotland. Well, when I say animal, actually it's a bird with vestigial wings - like the ostrich. Because the habitat of the haggis is exclusively mountainous, and because it is always found on the sides of Scottish mountains, it has evolved a rather strange gait.
The poor thing has only three legs, and each leg is a different length - the result of this is that when hunting haggis, you must get them on to a flat plain - then they are very easy to catch - they can only run round in circles. the correct poem is address to a haggis.