Haggis
Jim ...
Cassie, the bride, has asked me to read in the wedding
service, which is fine, but Jon asked me to be in
charge of the haggis. Yes, I said haggis--don't most
weddings have haggis? Yours will, right? ;-) Yup,
since it is highland rites plus, we will leave the
church, following a piper a few blocks to the University Club. I will bear the haggis, behind the piper, or, will assume my haggis duties upon arrival at the club. I am not sure which. Then, once inside
and the eating portion begans, I will stand and recite bits of "To a Haggis" by Robert Burns. I had memorized it in Scots, but the bride--quite rightly--pointed out that no one there will understand
Scots (who doesn't know what "tharim" is?! ;-), and, that the poem was a bit long for her taste (it is not _that_ long). SO, I translated it, cut out a few stanzas, and tried to keep both the humor and feeling.
Cassie, the bride, has asked me to read in the wedding
service, which is fine, but Jon asked me to be in
charge of the haggis. Yes, I said haggis--don't most
weddings have haggis? Yours will, right? ;-) Yup,
since it is highland rites plus, we will leave the
church, following a piper a few blocks to the University Club. I will bear the haggis, behind the piper, or, will assume my haggis duties upon arrival at the club. I am not sure which. Then, once inside
and the eating portion begans, I will stand and recite bits of "To a Haggis" by Robert Burns. I had memorized it in Scots, but the bride--quite rightly--pointed out that no one there will understand
Scots (who doesn't know what "tharim" is?! ;-), and, that the poem was a bit long for her taste (it is not _that_ long). SO, I translated it, cut out a few stanzas, and tried to keep both the humor and feeling.
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