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Aye, Laddie - ye need a license tae wear that Sporran
2007-06-25
PC gone amuck, courtesy of Brussels. And it comes after MOD gave the contract for military sporrans to an ENGLISH firm.
Ummm... That wasn't Robert the Bruce who just snarled, was it?
Posted by:lotp

#13  "Badgers? We don't have to show you no steenking badgers!"
Posted by: Frank G   2007-06-25 20:41  

#12  Did someone mention badgers?
Posted by: mrp   2007-06-25 19:49  

#11  Ewwwwww!!!
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2007-06-25 15:55  

#10  Old joke:
Q: What's a sporran?
A: It's that hairy thing between a Scotsman's legs
Posted by: Rambler   2007-06-25 14:11  

#9  Why, ye bluidy sassenachs!
Posted by: Wild Rory O The Glen   2007-06-25 13:36  

#8  Ach! A fine opportunity to brush up on the olde Scottish custom of indecipherable curses...
Posted by: mojo   2007-06-25 10:31  

#7  Not sure what has happened to the Scots lately, but they seem to have more than their fair share of loonie legislators. Glad my people got out of there in 1609.
Posted by: RWV   2007-06-25 10:27  

#6  have it taken from them under the new regulations."

They can have my sporran when they tear it from my cold, dead hands!

Aaurgh!

Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2007-06-25 09:29  

#5  I can just see cops rifling through peoples fly boxes and scrutinizing somebody's Muddler.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2007-06-25 08:49  

#4  This harks back to 2004 when an Englishman was appointed manager of the Glencoe visitor centre. That was OK, but did they have to pick one with the name of Campbell?
Posted by: Mad Eye Slesh1205   2007-06-25 08:19  

#3  Odd! It just happend to coincide with a badger cull in England & Wales. Lots of licensed furs available there then.
Posted by: Mad Eye Slesh1205   2007-06-25 08:16  

#2  No problem. Just claim the sporran is traditional Islamic dress, like the David Jones teatowel, and the Eurodhimmies will revoke the license and throw in a free wudu-washer with every sporran sold.
Posted by: Ahmed McTavish   2007-06-25 07:04  

#1  Whoever drafted that rule should be fed to the Loch Ness Monster.
Posted by: Mike   2007-06-25 06:18  

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