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OT - Poetry Reading

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  • Started 6 years ago by I were right about that saddle
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  1. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Southside friends,

    In an attempt to feel like @gembo for twenty minutes I have engaged to read Burns' Tam O'Shanter at 18h00 on Friday the 26th of this month at 31 Lasswade Road. Commuters heading home that way will be very welcome to drop in. You may have to hunt for bike parking.

    In a nod to the high regard in which the Bard held the ideals of the French revolution the event will have a twist; the audience will be polled on hearing the poem in the original Scots or in Jean-Claud Crapoulet's French translation.

    All welcome. All.

    IWRATS

    Posted 6 years ago #

  2. unhurt
    Member

    All welcome. All.

    Even hecklers?

    Posted 6 years ago #

  3. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    @unhurt

    As long as the heckling is in the appropriate language, yes.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  4. gembo
    Member

    that will be good, though I do not head home that way alas

    What is French for [..] wurnae fou but just had plenty and Nursing her wrath to keep it warm?

    My fave lines from Tam O

    Posted 6 years ago #

  5. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    @gembo

    Crapoulet's translation doesn't attempt to capture the earthiness of the Scots prose. It's quite academic and often
    gives precedence to rhyme over transliteration;

    Pendant que nous restons assis devant nos chopes
    Nous saoulant de bonheur et d’ale forte
    Nous oublions les longs miles ecossais restant a faire
    Les marais, les ruisseaux, les ravins, les barrieres
    Qu’il faudra traverser avant d’etre chez nous
    Ou, sur leurs chaises, les femmes font longue figure
    Et froncent des sourcils aussi noir que l’orage
    Et tiennent bien au chaud leur rage.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  6. unhurt
    Member

    @iwrats Hungarian it is then.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  7. unhurt
    Member

    That calendar link then suggests there are Other Events on the 26th. But it does not want to show any details. Are they secret? ETA: aha, I found the January newsletter.

    Q: What sort of snacks?

    Posted 6 years ago #

  8. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    @unhurt

    a) I don't know and I expect the whole thing to be genially disorganised.

    b) I don't know but bring your own. Margiottas is just up the road.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  9. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Oh, and folk are invited to bring a hip-flask with the tipple of their choice.

    And also I have actually rehearsed instead of winging it as usual.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  10. unhurt
    Member

    Since this seems to be the Burns Night Thread:

    Unsure if this is an abomination or a wonder: a Chocolate Haggis recipe (aka Shortbread & Whisky Fridge Cake).

    Page contains this wee gem: " Thanks to the Second Stonehaven Brownies for telling me that a Chocolate Haggis (Without the whisky!) is their Burns tradition served with orange jelly 'neeps' ice cream 'mashed tatties ' and of course washed down with a dram of Irn Bru!!!"

    Posted 6 years ago #

  11. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Huppity-bump!

    Reminder for Southside commuters and fans of Scotland's very own 'Weinsteinian sex pest'.

    18h00 tomorrow - reading of Tam O'Shanter in the language of your choice. Hopefully more animated than this. @Frenchy - how could you resist?

    Posted 6 years ago #

  12. unhurt
    Member

    I can be bribed into attendance by the promise of prodigal tupperware.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  13. chdot
    Admin

    https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/entertainment/3d-facial-imaging-brings-robert-burns-to-life-as-animation-1-4671498

    Posted 6 years ago #

  14. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    @unhurt

    That Tupperware is on the brink of assimilation. But it shall be returned.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  15. Frenchy
    Member

    @Frenchy - how could you resist?

    Prior engagement, unfortunately.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  16. unhurt
    Member

    That was my concern - that it would go all Locutus of Borg on me.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  17. unhurt
    Member

    "Amnesty has translated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into Scots."

    Airticle 1
    Aw human sowels is born free and equal in dignity and richts. They are tochered wi mense and conscience and shuld guide theirsels ane til ither in a speirit o britherheid.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  18. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Based of course on Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen de 1789 which Burns knew well.

    Article premier

    Les hommes naissent et demeurent libres et égaux en droits. Les distinctions sociales ne peuvent être fondées que sur l’utilité commune.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  19. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Somebody's not quite grasped the idea.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  20. unhurt
    Member

    Via the rather good @PulpLibrarian on Twitter:

    "A whisky mine you say... Hot Dam, by Neil MacNeil (aka W T Ballard) Gold Medal Books, 1960."

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  21. unhurt
    Member

    Nobody told me* the venue was at the top of Kirk Brae. It's a good thing I like poetry, Burns, candles, beer and conversation. Can't claim to have understood the French version beyond my tribal memory of the order in which stuff happens. Only one minor attempt at rabble-rousing wrt to T. May's Britishisation of Burns Night. Dog-washers, you might feel a wee pang of regret? Also, people of CCE, did you know that @Iwrats owns tops not made of green fleece or stripes? I did not.

    P.S. Tam is an awful gatecrasher and seems to have ruined a decent shindig with his unasked for drunken commentary.

    *failed to check google maps

    Posted 6 years ago #

  22. gembo
    Member

    Lots of people told you, ypu just were not listening

    Posted 6 years ago #

  23. unhurt
    Member

    Me, not listening? Pfft. As if...

    Btw, my bike was very brave, left outside on its own in the southern wilds of Liberton.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  24. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    I like poetry, Burns, candles, beer and conversation

    Most excellent, just a pity I mis-timed the storm I ordered for sound effects. It's being delivered the morn.

    For the record I didn't understand the French either. Just did it fuhnetiklay. Much like the Scots.

    At the minute all my fleeces are green, blue, grey or black. I do lament the limited colour palette in technical menswear. Perhaps I'll find one in Paisley harn?

    Posted 6 years ago #

  25. gembo
    Member

    @iwrats, glad it went well. Did the foxy gentleman park his merc next to unhurt's bike. She survived her first ever trip to liberton

    Posted 6 years ago #

  26. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    @gembo

    I'm way too radical for Folin Cox so he stayed on vacation in Marbella. The lack of PA meant I was unplugged but I tapped into my inner gembo and gied it acoustic laldy.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  27. gembo
    Member

    Ah the silver fox, he is more a rapper than a burns supper person.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  28. unhurt
    Member

    Maybe you could alter one of these? Paisley(ish) pattern fleece longjohns (for dogs).

    Posted 6 years ago #

  29. dessert rat
    Member

    There was an odd fellow named Gus,
    When travelling he made such a fuss.
    He was banned from the train,
    Not allowed on a plane,
    And now travels only by bus bike.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  30. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Back by unpopular acclaim!

    Tam O'Shanter delivered in Froggospeak and then the original Jockanese by IWRATS after a brief declamation on the state of the wor(l)d.

    Friday, January 26th, 18h00, 31 Lasswade Road. Bring a bottle of ale.

    The venue is a political hub for folk of a Certain Leaning but all are welcome and I mean all, a man being a man and aw that and aw that.

    I'm certainly hoping @Frenchie can swing by this year to critique my Scots and discuss bunnets.

    Posted 5 years ago #

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