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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-29-09 01:19 PM
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Poll question: Who the hell is "Auld Lang Syne?"
Edited on Tue Dec-29-09 01:20 PM by Deep13
You know, that New Year's eve song written by Robert Burns...

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And auld lang syne?

For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll tak a cup of kindness yet,
For auld lang syne!

And there's a hand my trusty fiere,
And gie's a hand o thine,
And we'll tak a right guid-willie waught,
For auld lang syne

For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll tak a cup of kindness yet,
For auld lang syne!


So who the hell is he??
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vadawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-29-09 01:28 PM
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1. jeez you know theres this thing called the internet where you can look it up
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vadawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-29-09 01:29 PM
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2. PS its hogmany or ne'erday, never new year....
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-29-09 01:30 PM
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3. Jeez, you know that's where I found the lyrics.
Unless you really thought he might have invented lightning.
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yawnmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-29-09 02:36 PM
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8. Some people don't have access to the internet! eom
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vadawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-29-09 02:59 PM
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9. rofl, then they will have to use the library like all the other heathens..
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yawnmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-29-09 05:55 PM
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11. Who is going to brave the cold and walk to the library just to find out what auld lang syne means??
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Call Me Wesley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-29-09 01:32 PM
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4. First to make Haggis.
I think.
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-29-09 01:56 PM
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6. So far, the only one to like it. nt
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Dystopian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-29-09 01:46 PM
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5. Everyone knows him!
He's the mind-fucker.



peace~
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-29-09 02:11 PM
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7. Misspelling of "Old Lang's Sign". The original is as follows:
There was a man, his name was Lang,
He had a neon sign,
Now, Mister Lang was very old,
So they called it Old Lang's Sign.

I swear this is true.

mark
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upstandingcitizens Donating Member (44 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-29-09 07:11 PM
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12. Oh
I heard it went;


Oh once there was a man named Lang
He had a neon sign
And all the people called it
Old Lang's Sign


My wife *hates* when I sing that ;-)
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Crabby Appleton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-29-09 04:56 PM
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10. I use to know, but I forgot
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bluesbassman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-29-09 07:40 PM
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13. One of the Syne brothers; Murray, Theodore, and Auld.
They were the Three Stooges stunt doubles.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-29-09 07:50 PM
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14. Wee Lang Syne's dad
Of the Edinburgh Lang Synes, me laddie. :P
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-29-09 07:59 PM
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15. Old Mr. Lang was a Gemini. nt
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