Campbell Ogilvie was appointed general secretary of Rangers in 1978 before eventually becoming a full board director. He left the club in 2005. For 11 years he was part of the regime that maintained Rangers sectarian signing policy which was eventually ended by new owner, Sir David Murray, in 1989. Ogilvie has made no public comment on this policy, never mind offered regret or contrition.
In other places he would be regarded as an embarrassing relic of a bygone age. In Scotland, he was appointed treasurer of the SFA in 2003. In 2010, we made him president of our national association.
He remains to this day, a beacon of how the game works in this country.
Earlier this year he told the BBC he had administrative duties until 2002, when he became responsible for legislative matters. While at Rangers he had an Employee Benefit Trust.
In March SFA chief executive, Stewart Regan, told Channel 4 that Ogilvie was “heavily conflicted” by his role and SFA president and his previous role at Rangers, while the SPL is conducting an investigation into what he and his fellow directors did. The SFA and SPL share office accommodation at Hampden Park.
Ogilvie refused to step down during the investigation and I understand has not offered the SPL inquiry any assistance.
Prediction: resignation within the week.
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Is Mise Neil Lennon on 23 May, 2012 at 11:09 said:
I can’t find a “link” on the piece.
Seeing as Paul67 is adding new stories quicker then rangers(ia) are getting new buyers I’ll take the liberty of repeating the piece.
History as Propaganda: The BBC’s “Great Irish Famine” Dissected
James Mullin
July 14, 2008
When D.W. Griffith´s epic silent film “Birth of a Nation” was shown in American theatres in 1915, it changed film making and film viewing overnight. President Woodrow Wilson called it “history written in lightning.” Griffith not only created spectacular Civil War battle scenes, he glorified the Ku Klux Klan, and demonized the freed slaves. For the first time, millions of people realized that film was an extremely powerful medium for spreading propaganda.
Two decades later, Adolf Hitler and his brilliantly demented propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, realized that cinema was potentially the most powerful mass medium of the new age. They both knew that a documentary film that entertained would be more effective than heavy-handed propaganda.
At Hitler´s request, filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl produced a pseudo-documentary, “Triumph of the Will”, about the 1934 sixth Nazi Party Congress at Nuremberg. A torch-lit parade by tens of thousands of uniformed German soldiers led viewers into a futuristic Nazi amphitheatre, setting the stage for Hitler´s speech. His personal charisma was gloriously enhanced in close-ups, as was his emotional grip on the German people. Susan Sontag, a commentator on modern culture, has referred to the film as ‘the most successfully, most purely propagandistic film ever made.’
Six decades later, Hitler´s propaganda classic is still powerful, but it pales next to the sophistication demonstrated in the BBC´s “Great Irish Famine”. It is a masterwork of revisionist propaganda disguised as history.
The “documentary” aired on the A&E and History channels in 1996, shortly before St. Patrick´s Day when Irish people everywhere were marking the 150th anniversary of their national tragedy, An Gorta Mor – “The Great Hunger”. The opening narration assures viewers that the film will explain “how the people of a green and fertile land came to starve.” That is the first misrepresentation.
The film begins with footage of an outdoor Mass commemorating a time when Irish Catholics were forbidden to practice their religion. A BBC narrator explains: “Since the early 18th century, a series of laws penalized Irish Catholics. In practice, few of the laws were rigorously enforced, and all were repealed by 1829. They were an insult to Irish Catholics who were made to feel like second-class citizens in their own land.”
Can this be a description of the Penal Laws? These “ferocious enactments” brought the Irish closer to being serfs than “second-class citizens”.
Under these edicts, all Irish Catholics (and therefore all native Irish People) were prohibited from attending schools, keeping schools, or sending their children abroad to be educated. They were barred from practicing their religion, engaging in trade or commerce, voting, or entering a profession. The laws did away with primogeniture, the exclusive right of the eldest son to inherit his father´s estate, causing Irish-held estates to be subdivided again and again for generations.
After the Penal Laws were enacted, the Lord Chancellor of Ireland confidently said: “The law does not suppose any such person to exist as an Irish Roman Catholic.” The Irish were completely disenfranchised.
Jonathan Swift, (1667-1745) the author of Gulliver’s Travels, described the cumulative effect of the Penal Laws in his essay, “A Short View of the Present State of Ireland”:
“Ever increasing rent is squeezed out of the very blood, and vitals, and clothes, and dwellings of the tenants, who live worse than English beggars. The families of farmers who pay great rents are living in filth and nastiness upon buttermilk and potatoes, without a shoe or a stocking to their feet, or a house so convenient as an English hog sty to receive them. These may, indeed, be comfortable sights to an English spectator who comes for a short time to learn the language, and returns back to his own country, whither he finds all our wealth transmitted.” Swift made these observations 100 years before the great mass starvation in Ireland.
A contemporary and friend of Swift’s, philosopher George Berkeley, wrote in a 1736 journal wondering “whether a foreigner could imagine that half of the people were starving in a country which sent out such plenty of provisions”.
Historian Edmund Burke, (1729-97) an Irish-born Protestant who became a British Member of Parliament, (MP) described the Penal laws as being, “well-fitted for the oppression, impoverishment and degradation of a people, and the debasement in them of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.” All this the BBC film refers to as “an insult”!
Since the enormously destructive effects of the Penal Laws lasted until the mass starvation, the laws would easily meet the modern criteria for Genocide by Attrition as determined by Helen Fein, past president of the Association of Genocide Scholars. That is: “stripping citizens of a particular national, ethnic, religious or tribal group of political and civil rights, which lead to their lack of entitlement to food (and conditions essential to maintain health) producing mass death.”
In the film, “Great Irish Famine”, the BBC narrator says, “In western Ireland farmers had to contend with poor stony ground, and the only crop they could raise was potatoes.” Why did they? Unfortunately, the film makes no mention of the native Irish being driven off millions of acres of fertile land to provide estates for Cromwell´s parliamentary soldiers, or how Irish landowners found east of the river Shannon after May 1, 1654 faced the death penalty or slavery in the West Indies and Barbados. Surely this would help explain “how the people of a green and fertile land came to starve.”
During the BBC film, Irish-American nationalist Mary Holt Moore is allowed to make some very strong statements about Irish crops of wheat, corn and oats being exported to England during the Famine, but the segment immediately following undercuts everything she says.
It shows contemporary Irish farmers gathered at a cattle market. The narrator says, “Nothing generates more rage and controversy over the Famine than the fact that the Irish farmers continued to export food, not just beef, but bacon, butter, cheese, and many other products to England throughout the years of hunger, even though their own people were starving at the time.” The film would have us believe that the Irish starved themselves.
The terms, “Irish farmers” land “Irish landlords” are misnomers because they apply to English-born Protestants who owned agricultural land in Ireland. Many were absentee landlords living in England who employed middlemen in Ireland to ensure that rent crops were collected and exported to the more lucrative English market. British soldiers were garrisoned in Ireland to guard the granaries and food shipments leaving Ireland.
Regarding landlords, the film points out that, “the effect of the Poor Law Extension Act was to ensure that any landlord who didn´t want to be ruined had almost no alternative, but to evict as many people as possible.” (Over 500,000 Irish people were evicted during the mass starvation) The narrator then states that, “Ultimately, many landlords became victims of famine, just like the tenants.” No doubt many landlords went bankrupt, but did they become “victims of famine” to the extent that they starved to death? No records of such deaths existHow much food was exported during the mass starvation? In “Ireland Before and After the Famine”, author Cormac O´Grada documents that in 1845 (a “famine” year in Ireland”, 3,251,907 quarters (8 bushels = 1 quarter)) of corn were exported from Ireland to Britain. That works out to be over 25 million bushels!Thatsame year 257,257 sheep were exported to Britain. In 1846, 480,827 swine, and 186,483 oxen were shipped to Britain.
Dr. Christine Kinealy, the author of “This Great Calamity” and “A Death-Dealing Famine,” published an article in “History Ireland” in 1998 which documented the commodity exports from Ireland to England during “Black’47”.(1847) In that one terrible year, 400,000 Irish men, women and children died of starvation and related diseases.
Dr. Kinealy found that nearly 4,000 vessels carried food from Ireland to the ports of Bristol, Glasgow, Liverpool and London in 1847. The food was shipped under guard from the most famine-stricken parts of Ireland: Ballina, Ballyshannon, Bantry, Dingle, Killala, Kilrush, Limerick, Sligo, Tralee and Westport.
She found that the total amount of grain-derived alcohol (porter, ale, whiskey and stout) exported from Ireland in just nine months of Black’47 was 1,336,220 gallons. Could the starving Irish have been fed on this grain? Not profitably.
A wide variety of commodities left Ireland during 1847, including peas, beans, onions, rabbits, salmon, oysters, herring, lard and honey, but the most shocking export figures concern butter.
Butter was shipped in firkins, each one holding nine gallons. According to Dr. Kinealy, exactly 91, 409 firkins were exported from Ireland to Bristol and Liverpool during the first nine months of “Black ’47. That works out to be 822,681 gallons of butter. If the other three months were at all comparable, we can safely assume that a million gallons of butter left Ireland while 400,000 Irish people starved to death!
The “Great Irish Famine” film has an astonishing segment that shows beef being cut up in a modern day butcher shop. The narrator tells us that when the new Whig government of Lord John Russell refused to bring fresh grain supplies from warehouses, prices soared. In fact, they became so high that the Irish could not buy grain even when it was available for sale. This is horrifying and true, but it is a gross injustice to imply that the food Irish peasants could not afford was beef!
“The Great Irish Famine” does refer to British neglect, greed, and incompetence during the Famine because it makes for more effective propaganda to do so. But at each juncture, where a critical point about responsibility is to be made, the film obfuscates and equivocates. British culpability is denied, avoided, or minimized, just as it is in all written revisionist accounts.
Toward the end, the BBC film attempts to debunk the “local legend” of 400 starving people being swept into the waters of Doo Lough by a storm. The film authoritatively informs us that, “in fact, six people died here in an accident.” This segment also shows footage of a local drama group retracing the route of the victims with many dramatic gestures of supplication and much keening.
These closing images send viewers a powerful subliminal message. The Irish are like the drama group, commemorating a “myth” with emotion and theatrics, while the British are the “objective” scholars, sticking to the historical “facts”, and producing
unemotional, “value – free”, history.
This final point is, in fact, the subtext of the entire film. The proof is contained in a BBC book, The Great Famine: Ireland´s Potato Famine, 1845-51, designed to accompany the film, and written by the film´s producer, John Percival
In the Introduction, Percival writes: “The Irish Diaspora, that great migration across the face of the Earth, was given a massive impetus by the famine. The Irish immigrants, especially those to the United States of America, arrived full of anger and distress, then preserved those memories, like old photographs, to be handed on, only faintly blurred, to their children and grandchildren. Today, the President of the United States has to take those memories into account when he considers which way forty million people of Irish descent are going to vote, and the IRA knows where to look for money if political reconciliation fails to work out.” He goes on:
“The memories of Irish people, like the folk memories of people everywhere, are an inextricable tangle of history and mythology, of slogans, songs and stories picked up on grandma´s knee. Myth is painted in stark whites and blacks, images of good versus evil, and such stories are often more potent than history in shaping events. Unscrupulous leaders use them to sway the mob and motivate the terrorist. History is far more ambiguous. Motives are often mixed, bad actions are fired by good intentions, the villains turn out to have some redeeming features and their victims are not all saints or martyrs. So it is with the history of the Great Famine.”
Mr. Percival, the BBC, and the British government that financed the film, want viewers to conclude that the horrible facts of the mass starvation carried out under British rule in Ireland are merely “local legends”, embellished “myths” and fanciful “stories”. Those who repeat them are the “unscrupulous leaders who use them to sway the mob and motivate the terrorist.”
The “Great Irish Famine” is a pictorially beautiful film, made with imagination and skill, but the images and the script must be analyzed frame by frame for gross misrepresentations, lies, and distortions. The film does stir the emotions, but some of its powerful images are contradicted by a narrative voice. The viewer must decide in a fleeting instant which message is to be believed. The subconscious makes its own decisions.
Written history is about what the historian chooses to omit, treat lightly, or emphasize, and the reader is free to pause and consider each statement. However, a film viewer is being acted upon to a much greater extent. He or she is a temporary captive, swept along by a flow of disturbing images and a reassuring narrative voice.
The BBC’s “Great Irish Famine” is more visceral than intellectual. It is “history written in lightning” just like “Birth of a Nation” was, but it is far more sophisticated in its use of propaganda devices and editing techniques. “Triumph of the Will” is crude by comparison.
Winston Churchill once said, “Truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” Obviously, the BBC still adheres to that belief. The narrative of the “Great Irish Famine” is so well attended by propagandistic bodyguards that the historical truth is nowhere to be seen.
The Irish Famine curriculum I prepared is available in full text on the web site of the Nebraska Department of Education: http://www.nde.state.ne.us/SS/irish_famine.html
OK we got to push for one of our own to get the Presidents gig.
Contenders
Billy McNeil – An obvious choice. Mibbie to old and in poor health (heart surgery) and not up for the fight!
Jim Craig – My choice, very intelligent and up for a fight
Tom Boyd – A wild card. young, intelligent and well up for the fight
Any more contenders?
We Knew Murray So Well
[CAMPBELL]
Nothing is so good it lasts eternally
Perfect situations must go wrong
But this has never yet prevented me
Wanting far too much for far too long.
Looking back I could have played it differently
Won a few more moments who can tell
But it took time to understand the man
Now at least I know I know him well
[CAMPBELL]
Wasn’t it good?
Wasn’t he fine?
Isn’t it madness
He can’t be mine?
[BROADFOOT]
Oh so good
Oh so fine
He can’t be mine?
[CAMPBELL]
But in the end he needs
A little bit more than me —
More security
[BROADFOOT]
He needs his fantasy
And freedom
[CAMPBELL]
I know him so well.
[BROADFOOT]
No one in your life is with you constantly
No one is completely on your side
And though I move my world to be with him
Still the gap between us is too wide.
[CAMPBELL]
Looking back I could
Have played things
Some other way
[BROADFOOT]
Looking back I could
Have played it
Differently
Learned about the man
Before I fell
[CAMPBELL]
I was just a little
Careless maybe
[BROADFOOT]
But I was
Ever so much
Younger then
Now at least
[CAMPBELL]
Now at least
I know him well
[BOTH]
I know I know him well
[BROADFOOT]
Wasn’t it good?
Wasn’t he fine?
Isn’t it madness
[CAMPBELL]
Oh so good
Oh so fine
[BOTH]
He won’t be mine?
Didn’t I know
How it would go?
If I knew from the start
Why am I falling apart?
[BROADFOOT]
Wasn’t it good?
Wasn’t he fine?
[CAMPBELL]
Isn’t it madness
He won’t be mine?
[BROADFOOT]
He won’t be mine?
[CAMPBELL]
But in the end he needs a
Little bit more than me —
More security
[BROADFOOT]
He needs his
Fantasy and freedom
[CAMPBELL]
I know him so well
[BROADFOOT]
It took time to understand him
[BOTH]
I know him so well
DraughtsCSC
Many happy returns to ole Navanbhoy.
RoscoePCo on 23 May, 2012 at 11:14 said:
I said in response to one of Paul67’s earlier articles that it’s the impact of this programme among the non-football population that’s really going to bear fruit. The likes of Ogilvie will be the victims.
It’s easy for guys like him to brush off criticism from supporters as simply partizan reaction. However it’s not so easy when it’s coming from non-sporting angles.
Why are we continually being linked with young kids? We need to sign 2 seasoned pros to help out, preferably for CB & CF!
Some tweets on nerlinger by @CelticResearch
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SDM commenting on signing Nerlinger “There are still some ODDS & ENDS to tie up but we’re hopeful that a deal can be concluded before long.
CelticResearch @CelticResearch
27 August 2003 FC Copenhagen 1-2 Rangers-Christian Nerlinger sets up the winner to deprive FC Copenhagen of a Champions League Group place
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How much would FC Copenhagen have lost in 2003/4 by being deprived of a CL Group Stage place alongside Stuttgart, Panathinaikos & Man Utd
CelticResearch @CelticResearch
“Nerlinger headed the ball into the box, Arveladze reacted .. with an acrobatic volley that could prove vital to his club’s finances”. Quite
I found this innaressin’…from comments on RTC..
The Iceman says:
22/05/2012 at 9:44 pm
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I think Johnston is positioning himself as the saviour of the bears by handing them his club and taking a seat on the board of the relocated Kilmarnock Ibrox Rangers – only explanation of this commentary that he has going. Every kilmarnock fan should be bombarding this guy with time to start supportiong kilmarnock not rangers or resign stuff i reckon.
Dontbrattbackinanger
Thanks mo chara
I hope tonight’s doc. gives it to them in the only way they understand : one to the cojones,one to the jaw,headbutt…over & out.
GIRFUY ya fuds.
off out now to meet my wife for lunch
And she is buying!!!!!
this being 40 is great craic
looking forward to what new articles will be up by the time i return
Lots of angry Killie fans out there after the latest crass statements from their loyal loyal Chairman:
re: MJ a disgrace
i CAN NOT BELIEVE THAT M.J. WILL CARRY OUT HIS THREAT AND GIVE A DECISION THAT WILL SEE RANGERS NOT BEING PUNISHED.IF IT WAS ONE SMALL THING THEY HAD GOT INTO BOTHER WITH,IMIGHT HAVE LET THEM OFF,BUT THE LIST IS GETTING BIGGER ALL THE TIME,AND ANY ONE WHO GOES AND VOTES NOT TO PUNISH RANGERS ARE SIGNING THE DEATH NEAL OF THE INTEGRITY OF SCOTTISH FOOTBALL.
M.J.I PROMISE YOU THIS,IF YOU VOTE FOR MONEY OVER THE INTEGRITY OF WHAT SHOULD BE DONE TO THE CULPRETS,THEN I WILL SPEND NOT A PENNY ON ANY THING CONNECTED TO YOUR CLUB AS LONG AS YOU ARE CHAIRMAN.
I HAVE BEEN A KILLIE FAN FOR MORE YEARS THAN I LIKE TO THINK OF,HAVE LIVED THROUGH MANY POOR,AND BAD TIMES,BUT NEVER,NEVER,NEVER,IN ALL THOSE YEARS HAVE I FELT BETRAYED,WHICH IS WHAT I WILL FEEL IF YOU GO AHEAD WITH THE ACTION YOU TALK ABOUT IN YOUR COMMENTS.SHOW YOU HAVE THE BALLS TO STAND UP AND BE COUNTED,BECAUSE IF YOU DON`T YOU WILL BETRAY ALL THE VALUES THAT I,AND MANY,MANY MORE GOOD AND HONEST KILLIE FANS VALUE.
YOU WILL NEVER BE FORGIVEN FOR SUCH A BETRAYAL.
Posted 22 May 2012 11:08
FAO Michael Johnson
Dear Kilmarnock Supporters and fellow football supporters, If you have a way please pass this on to your chairman, Tell him Scottish football WILL recover from any financial short-fall,What it will NOT recover from is condoning cheating and wrong doing. If this is not challenged in the proper way Scottish football will die of shame.
re: FAO Michael Johnson
Already made my views clear.As far as I am concerned M.J.must be made aware that to change his mind and put money before integrety would be a betrayal to all decent Killie fans.No matter what it costs Scottish football,cheating and fraud must not be allowed to go free.I think Killie will lose a lot more money by decent fans staying away,than they will if O.F.fans stay away.
Posted 05 May 2012 18:07
MJ a disgrace
Johnson selling out to Rangers for a short term few pence.
Shocking!
Posted 05 May 2012 19:59
re: MJ a disgrace
agreed … as from now i am finished with football … i have lost my passion for the game today was my last ever game …
This is the best:
I missed MJ’s comments as well but going by replies on here – they must have been completely unacceptable and a true embarrassment to our club. If he made the sort of comments that I think he made, then from that therefore I reckon that he does not have the ba’s to stand up for the fans!
In addition this will also give both sides of the Glasgow footballing arse to call us those certian names they loved calling us. I never went to a Huns game at RP or at Ibrox and will never do so in the future. Who’s side is MJ on exactly as from the link below, it’s certainly not ours!
Hold on – are these the comments folks are referring to?
MJ with those comments you broke the hearts of passionate Kilmarnock fans from around Scotland today! You can also forget about getting more seats into our stands, because what you said has hurt the Kilmarnock FC family and attendances willl start to dwindle downwards.
Most of this stuff taken off the Killie supporters boards- think it represents a good cross-section of their fanbase…think Johnny Boy has opened up a large can of worms…
greenjedi on 23 May, 2012 at 11:22 said:
OK we got to push for one of our own to get the Presidents gig.
Contenders
Billy McNeil – An obvious choice. Mibbie to old and in poor health (heart surgery) and not up for the fight!
Jim Craig – My choice, very intelligent and up for a fight
Tom Boyd – A wild card. young, intelligent and well up for the fight
Any more contenders?
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Ken Livinstone
or
Victor McDade
The Campbell Ogilvie Song
I´m just a gigolo and ev’rywhere I go
Peeple know the bar I´m playing
Pay for every dance selling each romance
Ooh, I could say
(chorus)
There would come a day when news will pass away
What could they say about me
When the end comes I know
There were just the gigolos
Right cuz I’m without me
I’m just a gigolo everywhere I go
Peeple know the butt it’s playing
Pay for every dance selling each romance
Ooh, I could say
(chorus)
Cuz I ain’t got nobody
Nobody cares for me, nobody, nobody cares for me
I’m so sad and lonely
Sad and lonely, sad and lonely
Won’t some sweet mama come and take a chance with me
Cuz I ain’t so bad
Sad and lonesome all the time
Even on the beat, on the, on the beat
I ain’t got nobody
Nobody cares for me, nobody, nobody
Really ain’t got nobody, sad and lonesome
Baby need love
I, I, I, ain’t got nobody
Nobody, nobody cares for me ,nobody, nobody
I’m so sad and lonely, sad and lonely
Won’t some sweet mama come and take a chance with me
Cuz I ain’t so bad
Really want that soul, little loving soul all the time
Even on the beat, cherry, cherry on the beat
Need a long tall darling, mama
Feeling sick
Got nobody, no, nobody, nobody
Nobody, nobody, no one, no one
Loopey loop, darling, darling
Getting serious, got to see the walls
Over there. nobody, got no one, nobody
Nobody, nobody, nobody
Nobody, nobody cares for me
navanbhoy:
So its true that life begins at forty! Canni wait!
Billy Ray Cyrus for president, if only to annoy Mr Johnny Clash.
Happy birthday navanbhoy:)
On a mountain in Virginia
Stands a lonesome pine
Just below is the cabin home
Of a little girl of mine
Her name is June, and very, very soon
She’ll belong to me
For I know she’s waiting there for me
‘Neath that lone pine tree
I can hear the tinkling waterfall
Far among the hills
Bluebirds sing each so merrily
To his mate in rapture trills
They seem to say “Your June is lonesome too”
Longing fills her eyes
She is waiting for you patiently
Where the pine tree sighs
In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia
On the trail of the lonesome pine
In the pale moon shine our hearts entwine
Where she carved her name and I carved mine
Oh, June, like the mountains I’m blue
Like the pine I am lonesome for you
In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia
On the trail of the lonesome pine
http://www.afc.co.uk/articles/20120523/aberdeen-football-club_2212158_2785265
dons issue statement re. taxdodgers
A goy walks into a cocktail bar and says: ‘I’ll have an innuendo please’, so the barman gave him one!
Kayal33 on 23 May, 2012 at 11:41 said:
Is that not word for word what we said on the 10th May ?
Hail Hail
Awe Naw@11:43
‘Is that not word for word what we said on the 10th May ?’
In a nutshell. Yes
I hope Doncaster goes with or before him
Today is liviving up to expectations reading the DR clips on here started things of well ,I love it when the hun turn on one another in the morning.
But we have not reached the big present opening time.SO FAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
there is a wee spot survey at 10.26 on RTC this morning about who has the *MOST* integrity .Craig whyte or Neil doncaster
So far CW 63votes
doncaster no votes
BMCUW @ 11 16 .
Thanks .
A Twisted Wheel / Torch classic .
Original version by Oscar Brown Jnr is mighty fine . Tom Jones did a surprisingly good version..
Thanks re your confirmation that I was right re Billy Fullarton —— I worry about my memory —– getting it right [ occasionally ] cheers me up.
I shan’t forget the day I married Miss Elisa Brown.
The way the people laughed at me, it made me feel a clown.
I arrived in a carriage called a hack,
When I suddenly discovered I’d my trousers front to back.
So I walked down the aisle, dressed in style,
The vicar took a look at me and then began to smile.
The organ started playing. The bells began to ring.
The people started laughing and the choir began to sing…
Any old iron? Any old iron?
Any, any, any old iron?
You look neat. Talk about a treat!
You look so dapper from your napper to your feet.
Dressed in style, brand-new tile,
And your father’s old green tie on.
But I wouldn’t give you tuppence for your old watch and chain,
Old iron, old iron.
DOHHHHHHHHHH *living :))))))
im just a tad excited
HAIL HAIL
‘crushed nuts?’ ‘Naw, Layringitis!’ on 23 May, 2012 at 11:41 said:
Genuine LOL moment there.
Mornin’ Fholks
Spent a lovely day yesterday climbing the Buchaille up in Glencoe and onto the Kingshoose for a couple o’swallies.
Met a couple of boys from Cardiff and one from Surrey – all Celtic daft. We sat outside on a beautiful sunny, midge free evening and discussed all things Celtic. I could not have imagined a more perfect way to end a day.
What a beautiful country we live in.
And then there’s Michael Johnson and Campbell Ogilvie.
Teuchter
awe naw 11.43
was just thinking that as I read the statement
The Aberdeen statement says absolutely nothing; it could have been written by Craig ‘Mr Uncontroversial’ Brown himself.
Mmm —-
I imagine that the Operation Hornet team will have noted Alastair Johnston’s comments re Sir David Murray and The Bank of Scotland .
Mr Johnston has stated that the relationship between Murray and the B of S was ” probably too good ” and that The Bank of Scotland loaned big money to Rangers ” too easily ”
Nothing like a wee bit of understatement when you want to make a point to an interested audience .
SOUTH OF TUNIS 1146
I know what you mean-I nearly forgot to mention it!
Then you get young whippersnappers coming on here openly CELEBRATING being a blinkin’ year older-pffft….
Happy Birthday,NAVANBHOY.
Scottish football bigwigs are far too self-important to act in any self-deprecating way like resigning…they are like ticks…they bury their heads below the surface- blind to everything- then feed on the blood of the game in an orgy of greed like little bloated vampires & the longer they stay the fatter they become …they are also a barsteward to get rid of, especially if they stay in long enough & burrow deep enough below the surface…if they are not removed correctly their fat hard heads snap off & stay embedded below the surface…but if they do remain they eventually pollute the whole system- resulting in paralysis & even death…
SunnyBhoy on 23 May, 2012 at 11:03 said:
I like it!
Cheers.
Ogilvie like the huns are part of the craft,who never say “sorry” to timmy.I hope Salmond is asked about tonight’s BBC documentary,fabric of society BS etc.