Scotland?

[Ted Max]

It's from a sketch show called Absolutely, EDKiwi.

[SteveT]

The Scottish ghillies working in the large estates, taught the world sniping techniques.

[bigbadwolf]

No Steve. The groundkeepers of the Highland estates taught the world a valueable lesson in the art of camouflage, not marksmanship.

[EDKiwi]

Then the English stole it....

How Not To Be Seen

(Still figuring out how to embed video in my posts)

[bigbadwolf]

Ted Max is a really funny and erudite member of the forum isn't he. He's polite and funny all at the same time but doesn't rise to the arguements on here. I bet, however, he treats everyone who works underneath him with the venomous contempt you'd expect from a foul mouthed, slack jawed jock such as himself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOYsN7G8p0E&feature=related

[louisiana]

Yeah, they emigrated. Mr Louisiana is a Scot, from Bathgate. :)

[MrBen]

Wow. If I was as "right on" and humourless as some of the Guardian subscribers on the NHS thread I might take offence to the sweaty tag, compare you to a racists, complain to admin etc etc and start demanding an apology!

Instead can I remind you that Scotsmen invented the telephone, the television, Alex Salmond and the Barry Barry run. The first two you may have found useful on occasion - and for the latter - my sincere apologies.

Jah - an awesome choice with Raw Spirit which only confirms your status as a man of taste. It's a cult read amongst my pals back home and I have a much treasured dog eared copy signed by the great man himself.

[SeanMacGabhann]

No one compared you to a racist. If someone complained about you to admin I don't know who it was, care to share?

For the record that is

[MrBen]

Please keep on topic Sean.

Glad to see you are also a fan of the bearded one though.

[SteveT]

Nobody has mentioned the midges in Scotland.

[LuLu Too]

Scotlands's great - apart from the midges though.

I say this as a humourous, not particularly "right on" pesron who doesn't subscribe to any particular newspaper ;-)

Who normally hates emoticons!

[Mick Mac]

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> And then there's the Scottish invention of golf...

you wll mean "gouf" Simon - the best thing the Scots ever did for me, oh apart from Whisky (actually invented by the Irish of course).

[SimonM]

Alexander Graham Bell did not invent the telephone!

[Mick Mac]

Was it the Italian chap?

Antonio Meucci? Edited - Just remembered his name.

[RosieH]

Mick Mac Wrote:

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> SimonM Wrote:

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> > And then there's the Scottish invention of

> golf...

>

>

> you wll mean "gouf" Simon - the best thing the

> Scots ever did for me, oh apart from Whisky

> (actually invented by the Irish of course).

I'm sure QI said whisky was invented by the chinese...

[SteveT]

But the Scott's ran with it, just as Bell produced the telephone.

[Asset]

exactly

[Brendan]

SimonM Wrote:

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> And then there's the Scottish invention of golf...

Actually the game developed simultaneously in Holland and Scotland. They had a shared maritime culture at the time. I could be wrong on this but I think the Dutch were the first to actually produce clubs.

[Mick Mac]

The Scots invented the hole Brendan. That may sound funny, but that seen as the key difference.

[Brendan]

pffft?

[Mick Mac]

Tis true Brendan

Answer

Actually, nobody really knows who invented golf. Scotland and Great Britain are the two most widley belived to be where Golf was invented. In Great Britain Golf has been played since 1340. Although Scotland is the place where the game of Golf was put together primitivly. Scotland's the place where they added the hole to the game of Golf.

[Brendan]

Oh I know I wasn?t disagreeing with you Mick. The ?pfft? was just onomatopoeia for my snigger at the phrase, ?The Scots invented the hole??

[Mick Mac]

oh - I see.

[red devil]

99...

[Mick Mac]

Fight?