It came from the black lagoon...

[Stub Mandrel]

49 minutes ago, neepheid said:

I came up with it as my internet nom de guerre/plume because I was wanting a Hotmail address (in the pre Microsoft days, so around 1996?) with no numbers in it and I wondered what no American would think of.

 

I'm glad there are others with email addresses chosen in a moment of madness and still going decades later...

[SpondonBassed]

1 hour ago, Richard R said:

Am I correct, or now being thick in a yet another novel and embarrassing way??

 

My heritage is half Celtic.

 

Have you ever had tatties and neeps?

 

Have you ever seen a man with a bald heid?

 

That is all.

[LowB_FTW]

32 minutes ago, SpondonBassed said:

Have you ever had tatties and neeps?

No, it sounds horrendous!

 

33 minutes ago, SpondonBassed said:

Have you ever seen a man with a bald heid?

I am that man and I claim my £5 😂

 

Mark

[Richard R]

7 hours ago, SpondonBassed said:

Have you ever had tatties and neeps?

 

6 hours ago, LowB_FTW said:

No, it sounds horrendous!

 

Haggis, neeps and tatties plus a large whisky is a perfect meal.

 

[LowB_FTW]

Why would you have turnip with spuds?!?

Honestly, to me, that just sounds mingin'.

 

Mark

[Geek99]

9 hours ago, neepheid said:

 

You have indeed stumbled upon the correct pronunciation.  It is simply "neep" as in swede/turnip/rutabaga and "heid" as in head.  A silly person, basically.  I came up with it as my internet nom de guerre/plume because I was wanting a Hotmail address (in the pre Microsoft days, so around 1996?) with no numbers in it and I wondered what no American would think of.

Not carrying a gun?

small portions? 
International travel?

Edited 3 hours ago by Geek99

[neepheid]

1 hour ago, LowB_FTW said:

Why would you have turnip with spuds?!?

Honestly, to me, that just sounds mingin'.

 

Mark

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clapshot

[Richard R]

Clapshot - now there's a meal designed to give you calories through the long winter months on the croft.

 

Edited 2 hours ago by Richard R

[Joe Nation]

See also champ, colcannon, bubble and squeak, and about a hundred other things probably - mostly from cold/wet/inhospitable places no doubt.

Edited 1 hour ago by Joe Nation

[snorkie635]

47 minutes ago, Richard R said:

Clapshot - now there's a meal designed to give you calories through the long winter months on the croft.

 

@SpondonBassed - do NOT respond to this comment in your usual manner. 🤭

[snorkie635]

16 hours ago, neepheid said:

 

Ha, Annie Lennox is going to be so annoyed at that.

She isn't fit to lace his boots Tumshiebonce.