> >>We have a couple Brits working here and I'm working with a Scottish
> >>company on a new project.  How do you guys understand the Scots?  Or do
> >>you?
> >
> >You try to understand somebody from the nation that popularized bagpipes? :)
> >  
> >
> yes, and they think that din is MUSIC?

Strangely enough, even though I make bagpipe jokes, I like the sound
of a well played bagpipe. If you can find Silly Wizard cds they have
some very nice bagpipe sections.

> and they invented a game where everybody has their own ball? and after 
> they hit it, they pick it
> up again unless they lost it?

Well, I did laugh when I saw the book _Dummy's Guide to Golf_. :)

And I wasn't even going to mention haggis...
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