tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17852784.post113749793750820136..comments2023-11-10T10:38:52.141+00:00Comments on Kirk Elder, Senior Citizen from Peebles: As 'Today' Abandons Its Flirtation With 'Boogie-Woogie' And Returns To Its Tedious Best, Is There Finally An Answer To The West Lothian Question?Kirk Elderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05301246188133213386noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17852784.post-1152002973234699132006-07-04T09:49:00.000+01:002006-07-04T09:49:00.000+01:00In my experience, friendliness is often confused w...In my experience, friendliness is often confused with insolence in the towns of Midlothian.Kirk Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05301246188133213386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17852784.post-1151971647912063012006-07-04T01:07:00.000+01:002006-07-04T01:07:00.000+01:00Just visiting by link from Dennis Mangan's blog.I ...Just visiting by link from Dennis Mangan's blog.<BR/><BR/>I was once asked the question, "Why are you looking at me?" by a man whom I hadn't even noticed.<BR/><BR/>Thinking quickly, I replied, "Well, I know most of the people around here, but I didn't recognize you, and I wondered if I should introduce myself."<BR/><BR/>He shook my hand, told me his name, and went on to a different 'victim.'<BR/>Horace Jeffery Hodgeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16684513618463766017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17852784.post-1150907349829323602006-06-21T17:29:00.000+01:002006-06-21T17:29:00.000+01:00Mr Elder:"The WLQ, as it is known amongst aficiona...Mr Elder:<BR/><BR/><I>"The WLQ, as it is known amongst aficionados, is notable in that it is possible to debate the answer without ever mentioning what the question was."</I><BR/><BR/>This is, of course, in marked contrast to the "Irish Question", which the Irish simply changed as soon as anyone got close to an answer.<BR/><BR/>Ja(k?)ckson,<BR/><BR/>The noted "Skiffle" artist Gordon Sumner had a The Pedant-Generalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08738418480281658868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17852784.post-1137588300915290262006-01-18T12:45:00.000+00:002006-01-18T12:45:00.000+00:00I do consider the "what are you lookin at?" questi...I do consider the "what are you lookin at?" question to be way superior to the supposed great philosophical ones regarding one hand clapping (I can do this an attest it makes a little clappy noise, as one might expect) and a tree falling in a forest.<BR/>The "looking at" question HAS no suitable answer, if one considers "suitable" to mean not being butted in the face. "Nothing" leads to the replyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com