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emanday
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Post by emanday » Sun Jan 07, 2007 1:42 pm

My nephew's wife is a polis(ess). She's only a wee skelf and looks like a feather could bowl her over, but it's all smoke and mirrors!

This lassie has run in the London, New York and other marathons and can stop a six footer in his tracks with her bare hands! They seem to rely on better training than bulk these days. :lol:
[b]Mary[/b]
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JimM
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Post by JimM » Sun Jan 07, 2007 4:50 pm

emanday wrote:I also remember that a lot of the Glasgow ones were big braw hielanders!
Reminds me of a song where one line is in English.... and the next is in Gaelic

"When I came to Glasgow first"
"a-mach air tìr nan Gall"


The song is about a young highlander who comes to Glasgow and gets annoyed at the beggars pestering him for money.
He thumps them so hard that he kills them :?

The police arrive to investigate, but fortunately one of them is a big highlander from Portree, who takes his notebook out and pretends to book him....but he lets the young man of with a warning.

"Oir gu cinnteach cuiridh mis' thu an sàs" (for I'll certainly put you jail)
"If you do the likes again".


Jim :)
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Post by StewL » Mon Jan 08, 2007 1:35 am

Mary

I can understand your nephews wife being able to take care of herself even though she's a wee smout.

Going back to my time in the navy, I did an exceptional amount of military police duties in my time, and they taught me a few wee tricks of the trade :wink: Including small arms training for the many times I did Pay Sentry on paydays :lol:

Some of my communications mates used to wind me up and ask if I was really a signalman or a navy polisman. :lol:
Stewie

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