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FM
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Just got sent this .

 

Alex Salmond was visiting a Scottish primary school and the class was in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meanings. The teacher asked Mr. Salmond if he would like to lead the discussion on the word 'Tragedy'.

So the illustrious SNP leader asked the class for an example of a 'Tragedy'. A little boy stood up and offered, "If ma best freen, wha’ lives on a ferm, is playin' in the field and a tractor rins ower him and kills him, that wid be a tragedy." "Incorrect", said Alex, in his best trying-not-to-sound-too- patronising-Scottish-accent, "That would be an accident." A little girl raised her hand, "If a school bus kerryin' fifty children drove ow’r a cliff, killing a'body inside, that wid be a tragedy" 'I'm afraid not', explained Alex, "that's what we would refer to as a great loss’’. The room went silent. No other children volunteered. Alex searched the room. "Isn't there someone here who can give me an example of a tragedy?" Finally, at the back of the room, a wee lad raised his hand and, in a quiet voice, said: "If a plane kerryin' you and thon Sturgeon wummin wiz struck by a 'freendly fire' missile & blawn tae smithereens, that wid be a tragedy." "Fantastic!" exclaimed Alex, "and can you tell me why that would be a tragedy?" "Weel", says the lad, "it has tae be a tragedy, because it certainly  widnae be a great loss, and it probably widnae be an accident either

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Originally Posted by fremsley:

His epitaph.

 

I wisnae bright enuf

 

Feckers trying to get us - I moi - to jump off a cliff with a fiver Alex in ma hand.

<< With your tartan I thought that you were getting ready for Sept 18th

FM
Originally Posted by fremsley:
Originally Posted by erinp:
Originally Posted by fremsley:

His epitaph.

 

I wisnae bright enuf

 

Feckers trying to get us - I moi - to jump off a cliff with a fiver Alex in ma hand.

<< With your tartan I thought that you were getting ready for Sept 18th

I bleed tartan.

 

Not her fuerhrer.

Got you

FM
Originally Posted by fremsley:
Originally Posted by erinp:
Originally Posted by fremsley:

We're gonna keep monopoly money, tied to the Euro.

 

Well I feckin want Mayfair.

Old Kent Road for me  and I'm the shoe .

I've got the lead piping.,.

Oh !!! still talking monopoly here Velvet 

FM

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