Hey, Rob, I just found out today that this guy I know, who's about our
sort of age, used to play for Albion Rovers, when he was a young 'un,
that's the Coatbridge team. Not only that but he turned down a trial
for the 'Gers and managed to score a goal against them in a 3-1 defeat
at Ibrox.
Like That?
dave
2008/11/19 Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]>:
> Justincase anyone doesn't know this (I'm sure Douglas does), "thi speshlz"
> is shorthand for cans of Carslberg Special Brew, a singularly strong and
> fizzy lager much appreciated by Glaswegians. (Followed up the next morning
> by countering the effects with Iron Bru.)
>
> One of my earliest encounters with the complex terminology of alcohol was
> when I entered a pub in York in the late sixties, and asked, as I though
> transparently, for a refreshment -- "Seeuz a pint u heavy, jimmy."
>
> The barman looked at me with a degree of disdain and enquired, "Are you
> Welsh, or what?"
>
> Every time I re-encounter "'Jist ti Let Yi No", I'm reminded of a time when
> Mr. Leonard and I tried to feed an open fire in a Glasgow tenement from a
> paper sack of coal.
>
> *Don't try this at home, children. In fact, don't ever try it at all.
>
> R.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Barbour"
> <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 4:04 PM
> Subject: Re: Poem: Variation on a theme by Williams
>
>
>> I still love Tom Leonard's 'translation': 'Jist ti Let Yi No'.
>>
>> ahv drank
>> thi speshlz
>> that wurrin
>> thi frij
>>
>> n thit
>> yiwurr probbli
>> holdn back
>> furthi pahrti
>>
>> awright
>> they wur great
>> thaht stroang
>> thaht cawld
>>
>>
>> Terrific.
>>
>> Doug
>>
>>
>> On 18-Nov-08, at 10:46 AM, Mark Weiss wrote:
>>
>>> Very Frosty.
>>>
>>> Kenneth Koch did a lovely, nasty parody of This Is Just to Say. I don't
>>> have it handy, but I bet someone on the list does. Williams' egotism,
>>> especially in relation to Flossie, is a pretty tempting target.
>>
>> Douglas Barbour
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
>> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
>>
>> Latest books:
>> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
>> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
>> Wednesdays'
>>
>> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
>>
>> Art is always the replacement of indifference
>> by attention.
>>
>> Guy Davenport
>>
>
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David Bircumshaw
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